We have friends in the Leiper’s Fork area of middle TN, who have a couple of surviving butternuts growing in the woods on their farm. I have a few seedlings from each growing here, along with some grown from seednuts sent from North GA by a GardenWeb member back in the late 1990s - collected from the wild, but I’m fairly that the GA- origin trees are actually buartnuts.
As I understand, quite a few ‘butternut’ cultivars which have been propagated for many decades are, in fact, hybrids with heartnut or the straight species Japanese walnut… which have been present in the USA since at least the 1860s.
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Yeah the NH state nursery hybrids came from what they believed were pure genetics, but testing found they had some Japanese walnut in them.
It’s pretty crazy how many species have been decimated here in the last 150 years. I still have some ash, elm, and beech seedlings popping up on the property, but the large mature trees are gone.
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Well my butternuts arrived from Tree Pro having fully broken dormancy in the box. Lots of white growth. I kind of expected it being this late in the season, but didn’t mind considering they were on sale for $2 and change each. I’ve had good success with Tree Pro when getting bare root in the proper season.
What’s the recommended way to handle these? Let them get low light on the north side of the house until they green up or break all of the large white growth off and let them push fresh from other buds?
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Put them in containers on the north side of a building for at least a week until they can handle direct sunlight.
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@weatherandtrees
You talked me into trying some more. My trees from there also showed up. The che is not from there the others are.
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