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<blockquote data-quote="Arnold Ziffle" data-source="post: 685397" data-attributes="member: 43"><p>Starting with the native seedlings I'm afraid it's going to be closer to the 20 year mark than to 4 years. Every tree is different, and I've seen some native trees put out a small crop at about the mid-range. Also, remember that they don't reproduce "true", so you could plant 10 seedlings and eventually have a lot of variation in what kind and quality of nuts they produce, but most will be small nuts, not like the big "grafted" tree nuts. Of course, if you can make sure they are always adequately watered and fertilized you can no doubt shorten the time to get decent production as compared to trees left to fend for themselves against drought, pests, etc. Once your seedlings get a good foothold you'll get production a lot sooner via grafting. There's a bit of an art to successfully grafting pecans but I found it to be pretty easy and got good results even my first year doing it. Gook luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Arnold Ziffle, post: 685397, member: 43"] Starting with the native seedlings I'm afraid it's going to be closer to the 20 year mark than to 4 years. Every tree is different, and I've seen some native trees put out a small crop at about the mid-range. Also, remember that they don't reproduce "true", so you could plant 10 seedlings and eventually have a lot of variation in what kind and quality of nuts they produce, but most will be small nuts, not like the big "grafted" tree nuts. Of course, if you can make sure they are always adequately watered and fertilized you can no doubt shorten the time to get decent production as compared to trees left to fend for themselves against drought, pests, etc. Once your seedlings get a good foothold you'll get production a lot sooner via grafting. There's a bit of an art to successfully grafting pecans but I found it to be pretty easy and got good results even my first year doing it. Gook luck. [/QUOTE]
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