Today we found this Western Schley Pecan from L.E. Cooke at El Plantio Nursery In Escondido. I’ll plant it where our JKS Fig resided. 
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I’m surprised you’d plant that pecan or any pecan. Western Schley is much better adapted to climates with a long hot summer. You might make some nuts but it’s not a tree you can prune to keep small.
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I’m willing to give it a try.
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Out going pollen.
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Yes, a few have popped on each of the many strands on the tree.
The site for this pecan is along our northern border. There is room for a 15’ diameter, 24’ high tree. These are the size parameters recommended for WS in DL (dry weather + low altitude) climates. Our hot late summer and fall Santa Ana wind conditions makes us a good match for the DL environments discussed in the literature – esp. in Mexico.
We’ll see what happens. If it fails … it won’t be the first or last plant I’ll try at my property.
Are there other pecans around for pollination? I’m not sure what you can expect from a self pollinated WS. I don’t think of Vista as pecan country. But you certainly have enough frost free days…!!
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No one else thinks of this as pecan country either, and thus I might have to (gasp) graft Witchita onto it. The reports I get from a few others growing WS alone is they get plenty of nuts for themselves but it’s about 1/2 a commercial crop.
Half a crop is enough…after about 30 yrs. My lone tree produced 150 lbs of shelled out nuts one yr. It’s probably at least 40 yrs old and 40ft tall.
Last time I was in Modesto I looked at a place for sale. It had the most beautiful 30ft pecan tree loaded with nuts. They were very well filled out nuts. That’s a fair amount warmer than Vista.
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Given our needs, we’d be thrilled with 10 or so lbs of pecans per year. Our annual consumption rate of almonds is about the same. 
Nice tree. Pretty sure you need two compatable trees to cross pollinate. Perhaps you already have some.
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