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Grafting on old pecan trees
Comments (2)Wow, that sounds like a huge undertaking to me!! If you graft onto the one ft limbs, you are top working the trees. You can graft onto the sprouts that arise at the cuts, but you will be overwhelmed by the new growth. Cut that hard they are going to throw up hundreds of new sprouts. You can graft some but not nearly all, I won't think. You will be fighting the extraneous new growth for yrs. It will be competing with your grafts. You will also have to be concerned with the wind blowing out your grafted limbs. You may have to support some of your new grafts and they will be growing 10ft or even more the first yr. Are you sure you don't want to buy the nuts or plant new trees elsewhere?? Healthy old pecan trees are highly valued in the right place. If they are not in the right place, then I guess there's little to lose. The Fruitnut...See MoreTubex - Tree Shelter - Pecan tree
Comments (7)I have planted many trees with Tubex or equivelent,and I'm not a big fan of them.How many of these trees do you have planted? What I have found is exactly what happens with the tree shelters.They allow your seedlings to start growing earlier in spring,which sets them up for damage from a cold snap,this also happens in fall.If you want a tree shelter try hardware cloth or somthing similar with openings to keep mice away from the tree. I know it looks bad and you think the tree is damaged but if they grow good,in a few years you won't even see the scar.I see your in z5,that is almost it's northern limit for Pecan trees.My brother planted some last year and he is seeing the same trend with the tips being nipped by frost.I have a few peach trees,and I' taking a risk that a late frost may ruin my crop for the year but the tree will live but with some damage.Good luck and maybe someone else in zone5 has pecans. lp...See MoreCentury old pecan trees cut down, now remorseful
Comments (3)Wow, that was harsh. Sheesh! I sympathize - I have two very old Pecans that I have a love/ hate relationship with. They're glorious for shade, but a real pain for dropping branches. Instead of mourning their loss, may I recommend figuring out what you'd like to replace them with? There's a lot of options out there, so your "amigo" doesn't make a hot profit from your loss....See MorePecan Scab and Pecan Weevils
Comments (6)The pecan weevils have two-year cycles so I bet you had a lot of pecans in 2007. By now most of the weevils are probably already out of the ground and in the trees so this may not work so well, but you could try a ring of tanglefoot around the trunk as high as you can get it up. Circle traps are what we use around some trees to monitor the weevil populations, but they will catch many, if not most, of them as long as there are not a lot of other trees close by that they are flying in from. You may already know some of most of this, but for those that don't, the weevils emerge from the ground in August and September after good rains soften up the ground. Some walk and some fly to the nearest trunks (sometimes directly into trees if branches are low) and then climb up the rest of the way into the trees. They spend a few days exploring and mating and then start to deposit eggs. If they don't find them in the trees they climb into, they will fly to the next one, etc., until they find pecans or hickory nuts. The nuts are only susceptible between when they turn from liquid to dough inside (mid-August in south and late August in north of state) until the shucks split in October-ish. The weevil lays eggs into the pecans which hatch into the little worms that eat and then tunnel out of the pecans after 40 to 45 days give or take and drop to the ground to emerge two years later as weevils. The only way to kill them once they are in the trees is with a large sprayer using Sevin or other insecticide. By now they have already cause many pecans to drop (probed by the weevil before it reaches the dough stage) or be infested with the worms, so there is not much you can do. Scab has been about average here, but not near as bad as 2007 and not quite as bad as last year. It's too late to do anything now though. Where are your trees located, and are they natives or cultivars?...See Morejimlang
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