North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

[Louis Pittman <lpittman@murraystate.edu>]

I've not looked at it in several years, but there was a big walnut at the
parsonage of one of the churches in town here that I thought was a
J.nigraXregia hybrid; leaf and bark most closely resembling J.regia, but
nut more reminiscent of J.nigra...though not quite like any pure J.nigra
I've seen.

If I can remember, I'll try to swing by next time I'm in the neighborhood
and see if I can snag a few nuts for examination.

Lucky

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:53 PM, Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
wrote:

> Where do Carpathian walnuts do well on the east coast? I always though it
> was too warm, too much disease here in 7a NC.
>
> Will they thrive in the Appalachians in zone 6?
>
> Betsy Hilborn, DVM
> NCSU 1993
>
> On 10/24/2014 12:30 PM, R. Keith Etheridge wrote:
>
>> Hi Mary
>> I think quite possibly I'm the oldest NAFEX veterinarian as I graduated
>> from Illinois veterinary college in'53 (second class).
>> 3 or 4 years later I bought 80 acres of brush weeds and some worn out
>> farm land nine miles from my residence. I had it cleared for pasture and
>> farm land
>> At the time there were no walnut trees and I planted 3 seedlings from the
>> family farm.Later when I dispersed the cattle and put the marginal crop
>> land in CRP Planted numerous seeds
>> by stomping in the ground.Along with a few trees I bench grafted and the
>> hybrid seedlings constitute the The genetic material of the thousands of
>> walnuts I have.
>> I remember the area I planted the hybrids so will keep looking.
>> Keith
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Mary Yett
>> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 5:25 PM
>> To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters
>> Subject: Re: [nafex] walnut hybrid
>>
>> This sounds very interesting. I too would love to see a picture. I am too
>> far north to grow carpathian walnuts ( or at least so far), but black
>> walnuts do well here on Manitoulin Island ( in Lake Huron - Ontario's near
>> north, zone 4b). I love to eat black walnuts, but any improvement in
>> cracking  them that grows on fairly hardy tree would be most exciting,
>>
>> I have around 25 or so black walnut seedlings of local stock started
>> Spring
>> of 2014 and would be interested in getting scion wood from your tree,maybe
>> in Winter/Spring of 2016, when my trees are big enough to graft. Would you
>> be interested in selling me some some day?
>>
>> It makes me chuckle that I now know of 3 veterinarians who are active in
>> NAFEX and have been growing nut trees for decades-- you, me and Lucky
>> Pitmann. Maybe that is because vets tend to be all a bit "nutty'.
>>
>> Mary Yett  ( Auburn, class of '82)
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:06 PM, R. Keith Etheridge <goatdoc@ctitech.com
>> >
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Jerry
>>> After I posted this I searched the internet and other than the thick
>>> light
>>> fibrous husk the nut shows no sign of Carpathian traits.There are other
>>> trees in the area I planted the
>>> hybrid seedlings so I'll start checking the nuts from them.
>>> Thanks
>>> Keith
>>>
>>> -----Original Message----- From: Jwlehman--- via nafex
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 7:21 PM
>>> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>>> Subject: Re: [nafex] walnut hybrid
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Keith,
>>>
>>> Can you supply pictures?
>>>
>>> Jerry
>>>
>>>
>>> In a message dated 10/14/2014 4:20:57 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>> goatdoc@ctitech.com writes:
>>>
>>> Kincaid  Illinois is a few miles west of Taylorville Illinois where I
>>> was a
>>> veterinarian. It was created as a coal mining town where a large portion
>>> of  the miners were Italian immigrants.
>>> One of my clients of Italian extraction  had a large Carpathian walnut in
>>> her yard with many dogs.Knowing my interests  she shared several nuts
>>> with
>>> me. When they germinated
>>> they produced what  appeared to be a black walnut seedlings that I
>>> planted.
>>> I’m a very poor record  keeper but I have a tree thirty or more years
>>> later
>>> that produces a pear  shape
>>> husk that a appears more fibrous and organized than other black walnuts
>>> and produced a nut that cracks somewhat easier than the run of the
>>> mill.Not
>>> dry enough to evaluate.
>>> I think at one time the USDA had walnut  hybrid station that was
>>> terminated
>>> due to lack of  success.
>>> Keith
>>> __________________
>>>
>>
> __________________
> nafex mailing list
> nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters
> subscribe/unsubscribe|user config|list info|make a donation toward list
> maintenance:
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex
> message archives
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/nafex
> Google message archive search:
> site: lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/nafex [searchstring]
> nafex list mirror sites:
> http://ifneb.blogspot.com IFNEB Blog
> http://groups.google.com/group/permaculturelist
> http://groups.google.com/group/nafexlist
> https://sites.google.com/site/nafexmailinglist
> Avant Geared  http://www.avantgeared.com