Anyone has success with surecrop pecan in zone 5?

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Interesting. So do other members of juglandaceae require a certain number of cooling degree days in order to fill nuts, for example other hickorys and butternuts/buartnuts?

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Yes, and this can be a problem in some circumstances. For example, I found a wild black walnut tree south of Selma Alabama a few years ago that required a very long season to mature nuts. If I used nuts from that tree for rootstocks and sent the grafted trees to someone in Illinois to grow, they would likely fail due to the rootstock breaking dormancy too early.

Butternut is somewhat a flip situation. It is native from northeastern U.S. down to the northern edge of Alabama. However, most butternuts can mature in a very short growing season.

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I see. So do you have any information about the amount of growing days regarding lucas pecan? Or a picture of the nut?

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Do some due diligence studying the varieties you are going to plant. Bill Reid has a lot of info you can use.

Pecan pollination chart and pull the pecan pollination chart so you can compare varieties to grow.

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Thank you. So why is it so difficult to know if warren 346 is type 1 or 2? It seems like its always different on different websites.

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It is not an exact and precise thing. Protandrous can flip to protogynous depending on chill hours. Some varieties break buds earlier or later than others. Some years a variety might be a perfect pollinator for another variety. Another year and they may bloom so far apart little or no crossing occurs. Other than that, I donā€™t know if anyone with expertise has looked at Warren 346 other than Bill Reid.

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Oh i didnt realize they can change from year to year, interesting. So sorry if this is a stupid question, but if I bought a lucas from grimo and one from rockbridge, do you think they would have different bloom times in my area? I know grimo says his lucas is protandrous but im guessing rockbridge would say it is protogynous.

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The same variety would act the same if they are in the same climateā€¦thatā€™s why they are the same

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Okay i see. Iā€™m confusing myself

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Okay so just one last verification, thank you for bearing with me :rofl:. If I plant Lucas, warren 346 and earlton together, they should have adequate pollination, right?

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According to his earlier post that would give you a least one of each type 1 and type 2 so that would work

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Awesome thanks