By the way, from Tennessee and we say PUH-caan

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Awesome! I wish I had a few more trees. The harvester does a good job it’s well worth the money. I think I could handle 12-15 trees. Your right, picking them out is the hardest part.

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Congratulations on your big change in life path! Check out the "Big Bird in the Meeting" photo that has been going around, it really cracked me up :-)

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Haha😂 we have crow problems here !

I charge $2/lb in the shell, $3.50/lb cracked and $9.50/lb shelled

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I have a small yard but there are 9 black walnut trees here. They dont bear regularly but always a few nuts on each tree but every few years when mother nature determines they are loaded. If one hits you on the head you know it,.. They are one sob to crack nearly impossible to get a whole nut but can get halves sometimes and quarters often. I really love the stately trees and always put up a bucket full for winter use. Squirrels will take over your property when the nuts fall in fact they will harvest them and then gather them, its amazing

Yes. Late October first of November every year. Usually takes 2 weeks or so to fully drop

@@oldriversfarm1609 Telling you I appreciate your experience, isn't enough. I just bought a property in middle Georgia, with 8 pecan trees. Thanks to you, they will receive good stewardship.

Yes! The smaller pecans taste much better. I have a problem with black crows eating pecans but We are to kill them once crow season comes in mid November. Good luck with your trees! I estimate I harvest 300-350lbs per tree on a good crop like this year. My trees were planted in 1910.

@@oldriversfarm1609 you can kill crows in most states out of season if they’re destroying your crop. We can’t even hunt crows in Texas unless they’re damaging crops. I’d contact your local Game Wardens. I’d go out of business if I couldn’t fight off the crows. They’re horrible here. I walk my orchard every morning to let them know I’m around and they fear me. I own a 97 pecan tree orchard plus other fruit trees. Stuart and Mount are my 2 worst varieties. I don’t even gather those 2. My 2 Stuart’s where supposed to be Desirables and they were mislabeled. I knew not to buy Stuart’s. Out of the 3 Desirables I bought 1 was a Desirable. I had the leading pecan breeder who breeds most of the current varieties in College Station Tx. identify them. He said I got screwed because they were Stuart’s. He doesn’t like Stuart’s either. I have over 20 varieties.

Thanks for watching!! Yes this years crop is really good. I’ve gotten lucky and made some pretty consistent pecan crops. The harvester is well worth the money

I lived in Florence for about seven years. We had two huge pecan trees in our front yard. I never really ate pecans until I moved south. Then, that first fall ! Wow, fresh pecans are simply delicious. We would fill 5 gallon buckets from those trees and take them to family and friends in WV. I miss those trees, as we have moved away long ago. They were so majestic too.

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Sounds like webworms. I was told by the extension agent in south Georgia that if you poke holes in the web with a stick, their predators will go in and eat them. :-)

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It does ok in tall grass. I’ve used it in 5-6 inch tall grass with success

My Hican tree produces Hicans that are twice as big as English walnuts. It looks like 2 English walnuts stacked on top of each other. People are amazed when I show them. I have 97 pecan trees and my Hican tree is the prettiest tree I have. Bigger leaves, darker green leaves, thicker canopy and the twigs are much thicker. The nuts are useless. They don’t fill out. I live in hot dry Texas and in sand and rock. Horrible conditions for pecans. If it was planted along a creek it would probably fill the nuts much better.

That’s pretty cool! Didn’t know they would produce in Las Vegas!!

Insufficient pollination

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100% agree. We keep a bunch of the smaller ones to eat thru out the year.

Pecans are pollinated by the wind. They recommend a type 1 to pollinate type 2 and vice versa. Within 150 feet of each other.

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You need to buy grafted trees adapted to your area. Makes a huge difference on the varieties for your area because some do better in dry areas because they’ll get scab disease if it’s too wet, others do better in wet climates and others that ripen before it freezes if your in the northern region. They won’t produce if your too far north. You need to research your states recommendations for varieties. I have 97 trees in Texas.

@@jamesbarron1202 Thank you for your comment, do you happen to know a good variety for AR that you can recommend...since you are not far from me. I can do my own research too but also good to have a recommendation from someone knowledgable like you. Thanks

@@mandiegarrett1706 you’d have to go with the early ripening varieties and also scab resistant varieties in your location so that’s going to cut down on your available choices. I’d think Pawnee, Kanza, Lakota, Mandan, Caddo and Peruque. You’ll need a type 1 variety (male)and type 2 (female)variety to pollinate each other if you don’t have other pecan trees around your area which is very important if your only getting 2 trees. Wind pollinates them. Where I live, I can grow many varieties. As you move north it knocks your choices out plus your in a wetter location (scab resistant varieties). I’d research Oklahomas recommendations also since your in the same latitude but you’ll need scab resistance. Highway I-35 is the dividing line they use to determine wet and dry areas. Your on the east side and therefore need scab resistance. Georgia has a huge scab problem because they get so much rain. I’m right next to 1-35 and can grow pretty much anything. Hwy I-40 is the dividing line they use for cold hardy varieties. I don’t know where your located north and south of there. extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/pecan-varieties-for-oklahoma.html I’d research this also. It’s a crazy website the way it’s set up. You have to spin the pages up and down with your fingers to see everything. There’s 3 separate boxes you spin and it tells about each variety in the 3 separate boxes. Look for the smaller number of nuts per pound (bigger) and higher kernel percentage when you choose also. High kernel percentage equates to higher quality nuts. Womack Nursery is where I’ve ordered some trees. 95% of mine I planted from nut and grafted myself. I graft every year. Grafting my small trees and also the tops of my bigger trees changing the older variety to newer and better varieties. I’ve got to get outside and gather pecans all day right now and get off this phone. Pecans take years to produce so factor that in your choices also. Some come into production earlier in age than others. I was young (early 20s) when I started planting my orchard. Now I’m 60. I have a aunt that lives in the northeast corner of Arkansas. aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/files/2010/10/viewpdf_3111_21293.pdf here’s a good website also. You’d have to choose the eastern varieties on that Texas map. Plus you have to choose early ripening varieties or they’ll freeze in the shuck where you live. UGA also has a lot pecan info for scab resistant varieties. They’re the pecan capital and scab is horrible there. Here’s a list of pecan nurseries pecans.uga.edu/content/dam/caes-subsite/pecans/docs/pecan-nursery-list-rev-may-2019.pdf

Thank you for watching!! You need to buy grafted trees. Very good information above

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They are a really interesting crop. I think as far north as they grow is Kansas Oklahoma. Kentucky/Tennessee. Thanks for watching