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It does not have data on all varieties listed, but it is the only place where almost all varieties available today are listed with reliable information for most of them.
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This is what’s available at a place I bought peaches from…https://www.maiolifruttiantichi.it/albero-arbusto-noce-pecan-wichita-varieta-autofertili-da-coltivazione/
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Only one of the varieties on that page would work in your climate. Most are high temperature southern varieties. Would be better if you could get trees from the Dutch place. Study Starking carefully, you might choose to get a tree. It is not ideal, but probably will work. One caution, be sure it is on a northern adapted rootstock.
Cape Fear
Cheyenne
seedling
Desirable
Kiowa
Shawnee
Shoshoni
Starking Hardy Giant - this is the only one you could probably mature in your climate.
Wichita
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Screw the squirrels- baffle the trees if they bear for you, so at least you will have a shot of harvesting first thing in the morning.
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Your funny.
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40 Euro seems high to me for a tree about 4-5 feet tall. That’s about $44 each. What do they cost in the U.S.?
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I can purchase in volume for about $20 per tree 6 to 7 feet tall. However, retail runs around $35 to $45.
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I’ve found that the online nurseries in the U.S. are much too liberal with the zoning. For example, the nurseries will list the Sumner cultivar as suitable for zone 6. The Sumner pecan is far too late maturing for zone 6.
It’s easy for me to remember that after I ordered the tree from Willis back in 2010 that I had second thoughts after considering that I was in zone 7A. After calling Willis back to maybe change the order the lady convinced me that the Sumner pecan was okay for zone 7A.
I’ve had trouble with the Sumner splitting shucks in November. Usually, I just pick the pecans off the tree before splits.
Probably the same looseness in zoning in Europe.
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I wish they had some type of guidance like that here. Basically if you want to buy in Italy, they’ll sell it to you and they don’t care at all whether it will do well.
Unfortunately around where I live, they sell very limited types of fruit.
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yeah, i have some spanish figs that are so far a waste of space compared to varieties bred for cool climates. sold in a german website etc.
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LOL, Exmil. That reminds me of an old Animal Science professor, when I was a freshman, back in the 1970s, when the Continental beef breeds of cattle were newly imported to the USA The three main big white Italian breeds - Chianina, Marchigiana, and Romagnola are all somewhat similar in appearance to the novice. Old Dr. Wiggins said you had to be careful selecting cattle for importation from Italy… If you told them that you wanted Chianina, that’s all they had - Chianina. But, if you wanted Marchigiana, that’s all they had - Marchigiana. Etc., etc… if you wanted it, they would sell it to you - even if it wasn’t what you were really looking for.
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When you have champagne taste, you can’t be on a beer budget. - NBA coach
I’ve learned the truth of that the hard way. Hopefully.
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Have you ever noticed how the most popular trees are seemingly always “sold out” even in early season?
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Several selections at that nursery are Hicans.
James, Vernon, McAllister are shellbarkXpecan hybrids, Burton is a shagbarkXpecan, Abbott is a bitternutXpecan.
I do not know how those will perform elsewhere, but for me, here on the KY/TN border, the Hicans are shy bearers, rarely fill their kernel, and are seriously impacted by weevil infestation…to the tune of 90% or more of nuts affected.
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Im trying to start a small project farm with pecan and hickory trees in germany (hessen) and would be interested which varieties worked well and where did you purchase them? Did you start by buying older trees or did you planted them as nuts?
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I also do live in Germany(Hessen) and would like to know which varieties would work for my climate area. I´m very new into growing pecan but I do think they have a big potential as a new source of food in germany. Last year the highest temperature in summer was 37C and the lowest -7,7C. We have 836l/ qm rain here. There 91 summer days, 23 hot days, 61 frost days and 3 ice days. I would love to here some recommendations!
Campbell NC4, Lucas, and Warren 346 would be first choice. You may also be able to grow Kanza, Hark, and Oswego. Post #5 above gives a few nursery sources.
I bought a few grafted trees and had a few of those die, so most of my trees are from USA Cliff England seeds about 1 year old. other seedlings I bought in europe online stores but can’t recommend them as i dont recall the sources. I suspect those were not the right genetics anyhow… But afaik you want cold climate seedlings and then to graft the right early cultivars onto those seedlings you also need to know the cross pollination if going with grafted cultivars. (such as the recommendations from Fusion above)
NRW