Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Best Pecan Cultivars for USDA Zone 9, Sunset Zone 20
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:37:34 EDT
In a message dated 7/25/2007 10:01:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu writes:
Pecans are monoecious, but your mom will need at least two different
pecan varieties with compatible pollen-shed/nutlet-receptivity
patterns in order to get good nut crops set.
In Indiana two well timing matched cultivars for cross pollination (pollinating each other) are Major and Posey. One is protandrous and the other protogynous. In other zones they may not be a good match.
Jerry
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Re: [NAFEX] Best Pecan Cultivars for USDA Zone 9, Sunset Zone 20,
Jwlehman, 07/25/2007