Re: [nafex] walnut hybrid

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
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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:

> 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
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>
>
> 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
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