I have mostly grafted Yamhill, York, and Theta onto Jefferson. I normally cleft graft and wrap with parafilm and tighten with electric tape. Most all these grafts take.
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I was listening to the pros this weekend and some are doing wax bench grafts or splicing later onto growing vigorous varieties like the beast. Grafting high promotes heavy suckering on rootstock, sometimes the scion only “taking”, but surpassed by rootstock suckering on mainstem and from roots requiring a lot of maintenance, even when buried below the soil to encourage rooting of scion. Its like the sap coming up from rootstock seeks the tissues best programmed to grow and release this pressure. Maybe best to use similar growing stocks.
I also overheard some say that the TC material that is out of patent is easily cloned using vegetative suckers, below and above ground using perlite and peat, and IBA especially for the vegetative prunings. They were commenting on their prunings of all this material, and being licensed propagators, how easy it was to turn this trash into viable product after 6mo. I heard that the T C material was still in its physiologically juvenile stage and was more prone to rooting easily. That only lasts a few years.
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Dr. Tom Molnar also recommended painting the trunks white to prevent Southwest injury in winter as well as providing an extra layer of protection if round up is sprayed nearby and drift may be an issue. I lost a few last year to sw disease with a late freeze in the low spots. Spring fertilizing, not fall. Hardware cloth for mice and voles when small, get barn cats for orchard and foliar N in July and August for heavy yieding varieties like Somerset which will go sort of biennial like Carmela. Most nutrient required is N. Latest ground fertilizing at equinox June 22 or so.
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Cats really work well for a number of pest. With a little food I was able to employ several of the homeless cats to work the orchard.
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South west injury late winter. I believe this eas the cause of many dying last spring. Buds ready to open and zap.
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Pecans are running $1.85/lb for average quality, $2.50/lb for good quality, and $3.50/lb for very large very good quality. Growers are struggling to make a living at these prices. Store prices generally are about 4X inshell grower prices so expect around $8 to $10 per pound for shelled fresh pecans.
Does anyone have comparable prices for Hazelnuts?
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With the 1lb shelled bags coming from Oregon priced at $4, I’m sure these are large pollinator nuts. The commercial standard for confectionary hazelnut is between .9-11 mm. Most nuts are consumed this way, rather than cracking by hand. The limited supply of shelled and blanched nuts out east and worldwide is commanding $220 for a 20lb. box for locally produced avellana sp… That market continues to grow for them next to NYC. In our local, niche market I would be following that model for value added processing since people wont want to deal with cracking, and from my observations some nuts benefit from the removal of the shell and pellicle, like Raritan.
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Can you tell me when Truxton flowers? Is it early, mid or late? Same with the pollen? Trying to figure where to place it among my other hazels and want bloom and pollen shed to have the right timing. I wish I knew what the S alleles were for this but I don’t think it has been tested. Thanks!
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Anyone know when Winkler flowers? Early, mid or late? And pollen shed timing? So far as I know the S alleles are not known for Winkler or Truxton (another that I have). Anyone get some nuts for Winkler? What size are they? Thanks!
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Send Jeff Z. an email when on Z’s site. He woud be happy to answer any questions. He is upgrading to tissue culture propagation in his operation so he might be a little busy.
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OK thanks. Are we talking the Z nutty or someone else? Thanks!
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Wow thats awesome! Very excited to see what they release next!
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Yup z’s nutty ridge.
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I am sorry, I haven’t seen a reference with either the allele information or the male/female flowering times for either of those. Z’s Nutty ridge (Hazelnut trees – Z's Nutty Ridge LLC) sells Truxton and Edible Landscaping (Winkler American Filbert – Edible Landscaping) and Catskill Natives Nursery (Corylus americana ‘Winkler’ – American Hazelnut – 2-Gallon – Catskill Native Nursery Plant Shop) sell Winkler. Perhaps they would at least know something about the flower / catkin timing.
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Would anyone recommend a hazelnut cultivar for growing in the northeast, zone5 eastern NY midstate? Looking to put in 10-15, likely a couple types
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Photon, nitka from Z’s nutty ridge.
Dermis? (Efb sus), Aldara from Grimo. Im growing Aldara and Dermis. Aldara suckers a lot Dermis less, but does. Theres very little EFB/corylus presence in our county due to acid clay, so Im taking a chance with wepster, but it loves my heavy clay loam.
Both companies are good.
Most of the other hybrids are z6. Rutgers hazelnuts havent been tested that cold, but they encourage that in protectd areas. Hehehe Good luck
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I was inspired by @Auburn and did about 6 grafts in the spring this year. Had 100% takes. All of them were side grafts.
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Do deer bother hazlenuts much? The owner of the parcel along the back 200 ft of my property is going to bulldoze the mature hardwood forest there to put in a bunch of houses, so looking to plant make a mixed planting hedge about 20 feet across to keep some manner of privacy and do something to help the wildlife in the area. Thinking of going with a mix of hazlenut, persimmon, pawpaw and red mulberry. Im NY 5b, lightly sloping loamy sand as deep as you can dig. I know they will eat mulberry persimmon and pawpaw here. Ive had decent success with caging my apples and pears.
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Its their favorite salad green. Met a commercial grower who suffered 90% mowing to the ground by deer, but they all came back in a multistem mess. 8’ fencing needed, but there are different approaches that work.
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I grow the multi-stem messes to which noogy refers in the form of a 9 plant hedge. Our back yard is fenced in at only 4 ft. We do have a dog to molest the deer but he is inside at night. I have some peaches, apples blueberries, hazels and elderberries inside the fence. The deer have yet to get to any of them. I suspect however that I just have lazy deer as they are happy to destroy an unfortunate front yard rhodadendron every winter.
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