Well, despite grimo having their 89 cultivar in stock, they are done shipping to the US. I tried to submit an order and it was canceled. Apparently they do all of their shipping in one go to the U.S. with all the documents and inspections required. Don’t get me wrong, it totally makes sense for them to do it this way, it just stinks that I’m a year out from getting a replacement for my 89 that looks like it bit the dust.
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It may yet resprout from the roots for you to graft next year.
Don’t feel bad, I had a big tree fall over in a wind storm crushing two of my heartnut trees this year. They are respouting from the sides, but I also lost 5-6 foot of growth.
Cliff England has a lot of the Grimo cultivars. If I were you, I’d buy some scion wood from him.
isn’t he done with scionwood for the year? I would think his plants are further along and I’m past scion wood stage at this point.
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The Cliff England PDF scion list on his website only names Grimo twice. once on page 1 #9 “Grimo Manchurian Heartnut walnut” and page 34 #24 “Simcoe 8-2 Grimo’ s nursery, (GN) Heartnut walnut 2018”. Heartnut is mentioned several times but none appear to be grimo cultivars. Simcoe is sold by Grimo, but not a grimo cultivar, so maybe that second one is just listing it as the source.
it did. I cut it out
Scion wood alone is pretty useless for me. I don’t graft.
Hi! I’m looking for flowering info on “Frank” heartnut cultivar? I can’t find if he’s protandrous or not…
Thank you!
AI says that ‘Frank’ is protandrous.
Ok thank you! It’s weird cause i tried on chat gpt and it said that it doens’t have the information for sure…
I collected a lot of heartnuts from a Canoka heartnut tree, that I am going to plant. Canoka is self fertile, but there is black walnuts, Persian walnuts, butternuts and the hybrid buartnuts plenty close enough to have provided pollination too.
How likely are the nuts from the daughter trees to be close to Canoka?
I am going to graft Canoka scions on some black walnut saplings, I grew this year, in the Spring, so I will at least have some actual heartnuts.
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They might be fairly close. I’ve got 12 heartnut trees with some named and some seedlings. The seedlings have done pretty well for me.
It seems logical to plant them and then graft the scion onto its own offspring.
This is a very important consideration with chestnut where graft failure is very common. Parent on seedling grafts are far more likely to be successful in the long term. But for walnuts and juglandaceae in general, it does not seem to matter nearly as much.
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Thanks.