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My grandfather grafted some natives about 30 years ago that are producing pretty well today.
Also, Dr. Stein from A&M did a grafting demonstration on a small tree in my yard which has really taken off.

I knew you could graft multiple varieties onto the same root stock but I had no idea you could graft pecan to another type of tree, that’s pretty amazing.
 
jschoolcraft86 said:
i picked up the texan "york" nut sheller (made in china). i've used it a little, but need to get my technique better. i watched the company's utube video on how to do it.
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Not surprised.
A lot has changed in the world since I was last in San Angelo in 2006. Not sure if aermotor windmills is still there either.
 
greybeard said:
jschoolcraft86 said:
i picked up the texan "york" nut sheller (made in china). i've used it a little, but need to get my technique better. i watched the company's utube video on how to do it.
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Not surprised.
A lot has changed in the world since I was last in San Angelo in 2006. Not sure if aermotor windmills is still there either.
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Appears it's still there GB:
 
TexasBred said:
greybeard said:
jschoolcraft86 said:
i picked up the texan "york" nut sheller (made in china). i've used it a little, but need to get my technique better. i watched the company's utube video on how to do it.
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Not surprised.
A lot has changed in the world since I was last in San Angelo in 2006. Not sure if aermotor windmills is still there either.
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Appears it's still there GB:
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Good to hear! We made a few parts for them too. Last I had heard, a group of ranchers from W. Texas had bought the company and kept it there, but that was over 10 years ago
 

wife and her 96 year old mother cracked/shelled about 1 1/2 pound of these pecans in a little over an hour. says it works good.

this is an old cracker. on the sides it has raised lettering - model 28, mall iron fitting co., branford conn, perfection nut cracker.
 
jschoolcraft86 said:
hey those came out pretty good. i'm picking some up from a sheller down here in San Antonio today, hope they look that nice
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how did your pecans turn out?

the choctaws we shelled were put in a plastic bag and they were a little moist and then they got mold on them and we threw away.

after a little more doing with the few pecan trees we have- the kanza is a great tree, but is definitely the hardest to crack the small nuts and shell for halves. the choctaw despite their weak limbs are great producers and easy to crack the big nuts.
 
The june bugs have decimated my trees for 2 years where I got nothing. What they didn't get, the pruner beetles took care of.. DId not see a single june bug this year and the pruners were late, so I have a bumper crop of pecans. I use the plyer type crackers. When I sit, I crack nuts...I have bags lined up..
 
ccr said:
how did your pecans turn out?
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A few of the earlier varieties had really good quality but not as much total yield as I hoped. I think the best variety I had this year were the Kiowa. The choctaw came out pretty solid, there were a few weak ones but for the most part they made good nuts. I've been running them to Hondo and Goldthwaite every weekend for like 6 weeks now so it has kept me busy.
 
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Here's some recent pics in case anyone is curious.
 
I have one papershell that makes giant nuts. Love shelling them, I can get the meat out whole and they are beautiful. We planted it 30 years ago so I don't remember what variety it is.. but I believe it was an indian named one..
 
Mohawk is pretty big.

The biggest variety in Texas is Podsednik but they have some issues with how well they fill out.

Here is a pic of a board of every variety in the state they have you make at the Pecan Short Course @ TAMU. They are in descending order by size. I can try to take a better pic of the board if this isn't clear enough (It seems pretty dark).

 
I've got two pawnee pecan trees. Both produced a bunch of pecans last fall and appeared to be healthy trees. This year the tree on the right in the picture hasn't leafed out like the one on the left. Does that look like the one on the right has had freeze damage?
 
I'm not sure, I don't really have freeze damage issues down here. If they're both Pawnee I would have expected them to begin leafing out about the same time so they would both get hit, but I know trees can be weird. Freeze damage or water stress from last year are the two things I would guess.

If it stays really sparsely leafed like that you may have to prune some of the wood back to where it is actively growing. I let a few trees in my front yard get water stressed last year and i'm having to cut some back.

No issues with hail or anything? Although if one had hail damage I would assume the one right next to it would get roughed up pretty good also.
 
what is interesting now that I think about it is the two trees in my yard I'm going to cut back for similar stuff are both pawnee also (although yours actually appears to be in better shape than these two).

One of the places I sell my pecans is wishy washy on Pawnee because they can be great but they apparently can be a little finicky.

The Pawnee in my orchard are doing well but they got a lot more water last year. Makes me lean back towards the water stress idea.
 
jschoolcraft86 said:
Mohawk is pretty big.

The biggest variety in Texas is Podsednik but they have some issues with how well they fill out.

Here is a pic of a board of every variety in the state they have you make at the Pecan Short Course @ TAMU. They are in descending order by size. I can try to take a better pic of the board if this isn't clear enough (It seems pretty dark).

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My dad was really good at grafting pecan trees. He really enjoyed grafting and always had two to three dozen grafted saplings he was playing with. Back in the 70’s the extension agent had him give a class on grafting. He routinely gave grafted trees to people he knew, when they moved to a new place.
I remember his favorites were Chickasaw and Mahan varieties.
 
jschoolcraft86 said:
what is interesting now that I think about it is the two trees in my yard I'm going to cut back for similar stuff are both pawnee also (although yours actually appears to be in better shape than these two).

One of the places I sell my pecans is wishy washy on Pawnee because they can be great but they apparently can be a little finicky.

The Pawnee in my orchard are doing well but they got a lot more water last year. Makes me lean back towards the water stress idea.
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Thanks jschoolcraft. Maybe water stress. The sickly looking tree probably does not get as much water as the other one, and when we were building the driveway they pushed the gravel almost all of the way to it. Later I removed some of the gravel away from the tree, but the water basin around it is not as good as the other tree's.
 
The extension agents have done some grafting demonstrations during field days out at my place. It’s cool to know how many programs they have been running for so long.

I have a few trees in my orchard that my grandfather climbed into and grafted back when he got the place. They are in the middle of the rows so they get in the way but they’re gonna stay there because of their history.
 

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