Pecans

[Kingfisher]

What's your favorite kind besides a free one? Why?

 

[Lucky_P]

Here, it's "Major"... originated about 90 miles north of here in the Green River delta... bears heavily, annually, high-quality kernel, excellent scab resistance (USDA has used it extensively in its breeding program - it's the parent of Kanza, Lakota, and others), great pollenizer for protogynous(Type II) varieties. 100+ years after its original selection from the wild, it's still one of the best for the northern/midwestern pecan belt.
#2 for me is "Green River"... which originated in that same 400-acre block of native pecans with Major... bigger nut, bright golden kernel with yellow meat and great flavor.

 

[callmefence]

I like the ones that grow along where Yancy creek runs into the Colorado best.
The ones along burleson creek just west of lampasas are good to if you can get em before the pigs do.
I thinks browns is paying .60 for native pecans right now. That's better money than picking up cans. You get in the right spot better money than chopping cedar...

 

[dun]

I have no favorite kind of urinal.

 

[backhoeboogie]

I like the ones that grow along where Yancy creek runs into the Colorado best.
The ones along burleson creek just west of lampasas are good to if you can get em before the pigs do.
I thinks browns is paying .60 for native pecans right now. That's better money than picking up cans. You get in the right spot better money than chopping cedar...

38 years ago (or so maybe 37) they were paying 90 cents a pound for natives. I scrounged up a little over 800 pounds in a little over a week. Paid for Christmas with the money.

 

[TexasBred]

I like the ones that grow along where Yancy creek runs into the Colorado best.
The ones along burleson creek just west of lampasas are good to if you can get em before the pigs do.
I thinks browns is paying .60 for native pecans right now. That's better money than picking up cans. You get in the right spot better money than chopping cedar...

Saw some one pound plastic bags of shelled pecans in café a couple weeks ago.....$10.....I about fainted but they were big and beautiful.

 

[Bigfoot]

I have only seen one pecan tree out in the wild here, and thought it was some kind of fluke. I didn't realize they were a native species around here at all.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Saw some one pound plastic bags of shelled pecans in café a couple weeks ago.....$10.....I about fainted but they were big and beautiful.

My nephew in Pecan Plantation gave me two 5 gallon buckets full. Biggest pecans I have ever seen. I've still got some bucket fulls of natives

I need to get to shelling.

Lisa's McCaw loves pecans. I was shelling and giving him pecan halves. She came in from work and saw me do it. Then asked, "Why are you shelling them for him?" So I handed him one of those tough natives. He shelled it himself. I felt pretty stupid.

 

[TexasBred]

Use to have one of those big native trees in the front yard when I was a kid. Took a hammer to crack the darn things and then 5 minutes of work to get the little dab of meat out of it but they were sure good.

 

[Lucky_P]

Bigfoot,
While they're not as common here as they are back home in Alabama, there are more pecans here in KY than most folks realize. Many of the best northern/midwestern pecan varieties either originated in KY/southern IN... or are descended from varieties that originated here.
I could point out a bunch of them to you all over the county - and even inside the city limits of Hoptown, there are quite a few... some are 'improved' varieties, some are just 'natives' that make tiny little nuts.

The kids and I planted about 500 2-yr seedlings of Major & Posey pecans in a CRP riparian bufferstrip on the farm back in 2000... with the intent of me coming back and grafting most of them over to improved varieties. I didn't get many grafted, and those ungrafted seedlings are now beginning to bear nuts. Some may turn out to be as good as the named-variety parents... time will tell.
But... the doggone beavers have moved in and have started cutting down some of my biggest pecans - I'd not been down along the creek until modern firearms season, recently ... only to find that the d@m orange-toothed flat-tailed rats had cut down and eaten most of about 15-20 pecan trees.

 

[Bigfoot]

Bigfoot,
While they're not as common here as they are back home in Alabama, there are more pecans here in KY than most folks realize. Many of the best northern/midwestern pecan varieties either originated in KY/southern IN... or are descended from varieties that originated here.
I could point out a bunch of them to you all over the county - and even inside the city limits of Hoptown, there are quite a few... some are 'improved' varieties, some are just 'natives' that make tiny little nuts.

The kids and I planted about 500 2-yr seedlings of Major & Posey pecans in a CRP riparian bufferstrip on the farm back in 2000... with the intent of me coming back and grafting most of them over to improved varieties. I didn't get many grafted, and those ungrafted seedlings are now beginning to bear nuts. Some may turn out to be as good as the named-variety parents... time will tell.
But... the doggone beavers have moved in and have started cutting down some of my biggest pecans - I'd not been down along the creek until modern firearms season, recently ... only to find that the d@m orange-toothed flat-tailed rats had cut down and eaten most of about 15-20 pecan trees.

I had no idea your intrest branched over in to horticulture. I will have to pay more attention. The only one I've noticed was out near pilot rock.

 

[callmefence]

All pecans are good, just don't eat peecans are associate with people that say peecan

 

[jedstivers]

I like the ones that grow along where Yancy creek runs into the Colorado best.
The ones along burleson creek just west of lampasas are good to if you can get em before the pigs do.
I thinks browns is paying .60 for native pecans right now. That's better money than picking up cans. You get in the right spot better money than chopping cedar...

38 years ago (or so maybe 37) they were paying 90 cents a pound for natives. I scrounged up a little over 800 pounds in a little over a week. Paid for Christmas with the money.

Paying .90 and 1.00 here.
Small natives .90 and big nice Stuart's 1.00.

 

[M-5]

Off year for my trees , all are what we call seedlings I got about a dozen trees in my yard some are near 100 yrs old i guess . one neighbor is 90 and said the 4 big trees have been that size his whole life . the biggest tree was struck by lightning about 10 yrs ago pealed the bark off to the ground but it healed over and is only one that makes every yr. They are smaller than they used to be tho. And they are called peacaaaaans

 

[greybeard]

pronounced...'pacahn'.
Lots of those little hard nubbin type pecan trees here--all up and down the river. The shell is thick and mostly used to test diamonds for hardness. I've killed hundreds of them--and pignut hickory trees, but every spring, new ones pop up.

When I lived out west, some of the best pecans I ever ate came from trees growing along the Concho Rivers. Hundreds of them, but not nearly as many as the old folks said were on those rivers before the big flood of 1936 washed hundreds of the old trees away

 

[lavacarancher]

I guess my favorite pecan is the Prilop or Lavaca Prilop. It is native to Lavaca County, Texas and is probably the best tasting pecan bar none. Here's a link to the description.http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/cary ... prilop.htm

I just recently found out about these pecans and I intend to get a few cultivars and plant them.

 

[JMJ Farms]

Here we have seedlings, paper shells, and Stuart's. That's what we call them anyway. I like them all. Pronounced 'pea-can'. Not 'pea-cahn ' or 'pu-can' or 'pu-cahn' :hide: :lol:

 

[greybeard]

peecan

 

[ga.prime]

peecan

That's a slop bucket.

 

[Lucky_P]

I pronounce it pea(really, more like the short 'i' sound)-cahn, emphasis on second syllable. Always have, always will, as have all my people.
Pee-can will not cross my lips.