To: "'mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters'" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [nafex] walnut hybrid
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 15:28:59 -0500
Mary,
I can't speak to the cold-hardiness of BW cultivars - Jerry may have a better
handle on that than me... but many of the 'improved' BW cultivars have much
thinner shells and higher kernel percentages than the run-of-the-mill 'wild'
BW - some 2-3X the kernel %.
'Clermont' has the thinnest shell I've ever seen on a BW...'Thomas Myers'
probably the best one I grow... IIRC, John Gordon really liked Emma Kay at
his place in Amherst, NY, my buddy Gordon Nofs, at Flint, MI likes Kwik Krop
best.
Lucky Pittman (Auburn Univ. CVM Class of '85)
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From: nafex [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mary Yett
Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2014 5:26 PM
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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: