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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1646191" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Don't know that it's gospel, but I've read - in more than one place - that open-grown walnuts in pasture settings often have hollows that make them much less valuable - if not worthless, plus, they often branch much lower than trees in a high stem-density forest setting, so fewer clean log lengths. </p><p></p><p>I've got some improved nut-variety BWs that have thin shells - they'd crush to smithereens if you ran over them with the car in the gravel driveway, but even the thinnest, I can't imagine someone cracking with their bare hand - even if they had two to crush against one another. </p><p></p><p>I've got grafts of two 'figured-grained' BW clones, "Lamb's Curly" and "Christofersen B-22", planted next to one another. Been planting seednuts from the two, hoping that at some point in the future, there'll be some valuable curly/figured-grained walnut lumber coming off this place that maybe my grandchilren will profit from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1646191, member: 12607"] Don't know that it's gospel, but I've read - in more than one place - that open-grown walnuts in pasture settings often have hollows that make them much less valuable - if not worthless, plus, they often branch much lower than trees in a high stem-density forest setting, so fewer clean log lengths. I've got some improved nut-variety BWs that have thin shells - they'd crush to smithereens if you ran over them with the car in the gravel driveway, but even the thinnest, I can't imagine someone cracking with their bare hand - even if they had two to crush against one another. I've got grafts of two 'figured-grained' BW clones, "Lamb's Curly" and "Christofersen B-22", planted next to one another. Been planting seednuts from the two, hoping that at some point in the future, there'll be some valuable curly/figured-grained walnut lumber coming off this place that maybe my grandchilren will profit from. [/QUOTE]
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