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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1383612" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Bigfoot, </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1383612, member: 12607"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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