To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pine nuts and Paw-Paw seeds
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:49:02 -0500
Thanks, Mark. Where are you located that your Swiss stone pine is healthy
enough to have produced nuts? Do you have just one such tree, i.e. is it
self-pollinating? And how difficult is it to shell the nuts?
David
> David,
> My Swiss Stone Pine was 13 years old before it produced it's first nuts. It
> is 18 years old now and about 15 feet high. I have a Pinyon Pine (New
> Mexico seed source) that is even older. It is only 3 feet high and has
> never shown any signs of making cones. There is probably a pinenut tree
> that can thrive in whatever environmental niche you have.
> -Mark
>