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| mandymcar |
Posted - Oct 28 2008 : 07:09:15 AM
Hello,
Does anyone have any experience with growing Hazelnut Trees, particulary in the Rockies or Pacific Northwest?
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| 5 acre Farmgirl |
Posted - Nov 03 2008 : 08:55:14 AM
Hazelnuts?
We do have 3, 20 foot tall bushes, my DH LOVES them....once thought of growing them for income, but, there is a blight that takes them over if not sprayed, so not an idea, anyhows,,,we have 3 bushes right now, and they are all different kinds, don't know what kinds, they were here when we bought the place, the one that is huge and beautiful, has, oh, about 2 gallons of nuts on it every year, the other 2 have none,
What is the deal?...Does anyone know?
Thanks,,,,,
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| Marybeth |
Posted - Oct 29 2008 : 11:42:29 AM
We had English Walnuts and no Black walnut. They don't revert as you said but the black walnut is widely used in California as rootstock for the English Walnut so if the graft would die the root may live. Weird huh! Roses and many other plants are done the same way. Some just make better rootstock.
Many of the Hazelnut trees (Corylus) used for ornamentals don't bear fruit or only small fruit but the corylus maxima is also know as the Filbert and that is the tree you want for harvesting nuts. MB
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| katmom |
Posted - Oct 29 2008 : 09:09:37 AM
Yep, Camille, you are right you have to have 2 different(I believe) types of walnut trees to get a crop,
1 Black and 1 English. I have also heard that the English can revert back to Black walnuts...don't know if that is true....hummm I think it is "google" time...
Lisa, Thanx for the info on the 2 types of hazelnut aka filberts. Guess what kind of trees I'll be looking for this coming Spring! Again, time to go "google" about these trees as well.
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| carycamille |
Posted - Oct 28 2008 : 8:10:45 PM
You have to have two trees in order to get any nuts. (Well, I don't get very many nuts because everytime I gather them up the birds and chipmunks empty the bucket out for me. Same goes for my cherry trees, when they get just right and you go out to pick them they are all gone!) But anyway 2 trees to pollinate each other.
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| lisamarie508 |
Posted - Oct 28 2008 : 11:01:37 AM
I have 2 hazelnut (also known as filbert) trees that I planted 3 years ago. One is "Contorted" also known as "Harry Lauder's Walking Stick". The other is "Rosa" planted for pollination, but it has beautiful dark red leaves all season. They have done very well with the weather we have here (-30 sometimes) and come back beautifully every year (except for broken branches from heavy snowfall). They are still too young to bloom, but I'm patient. I don't really remember where I got them. It was either Miller Nurseries, One Green World or Jung's. Those are my favorite nurseries that I always buy from.
I really want to give walnuts a try, but they get sooo huge and I don't really have anywhere to plant them without them shading areas where I need full sun. I keep hoping somebody will come out with a dwarf walnut.
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| katmom |
Posted - Oct 28 2008 : 09:01:12 AM
oh, good question Mandy,
thanx for the info MB.
I to would love to grow some nut trees but still being somewhat new (1 1/4yr) to Washington, I still don't know what does well & what doesn't....
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| Marybeth |
Posted - Oct 28 2008 : 08:47:44 AM
Hi Mandy, We had Hazel Nut trees and English Walnut trees. They are pretty easy to grow. Try to keep the underbrush away from the Hazel Nuts--the Walnut trees drop an oil that keeps most anything away. Coastal Oregon has huge Hazel Nut farms--maybe try to contact someone there. Yahoo or Google 'Oregon Hazelnuts or Filberts'. MB
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