Apricot cultivation The apricot is thought to have originated in northeastern China near the Russian border. In Armenia it was known from ancient times. The Roman General Lucille’s (106-57 B.C.) even exported some trees, - cherry, white heart cherry and apricot from Armenia to Europe. While English settlers brought the apricot to the English colonies in the New World, most of modern American production of apricots comes from the seedlings...
Apricot Fruit A drupe, about 1.5"-2.5" wide, with a prominent suture, yellow to orange ± red blush, having light pubescent or a nearly glabrous surface. The pit is generally smooth, enclosing a single seed.Flesh color is mostly orange, but a few white-fleshed cultivars exist. Trees are fairly precocious, and begin fruiting in their second year, but substantial bearing does not begin until 3-5 years. Fruit is borne mostly on short...
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Walnut Harvesting Water, nutrients, insects, and many other factors affect nut production. Typically, black walnut trees bear nuts no earlier than their twelfth year. Annual nut production increases as the crown widens and reaches its maximum at about 30 years. Annual nut production of each tree will fluctuate, but total production for a plantation is fairly consistent. The exact time to harvest depends upon factors such as markets, weather, your...
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Thinning Walnut Thinning : Thinning reduces the stand so that growth is distributed to those trees you wish to keep for future products. Thinning should leave 25 to 30 trees per acre for nut production, and 75 to 100 trees per acre for lumber production. A thinning may be required two or more times during the life of the stand.Avoid thinning before trees reach a size at which they can...
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--- walnut pruning practices --- walnut pruning practice : How intensively you manage the black walnut plantation depends on your objectives, time available, resources, and plantation size. Unlike site selection, management of black walnut is flexible, and many methods are available for managing the stand. Only basic methods are covered here. Thinning, pruning, and other...
Site preparation There may be no need for preparation of your chosen site. On the other hand, site preparation as intensive as land clearing with a bulldozer and spraying with herbicide may be required. You should ask yourself: How easy will the site be to plant? How will I control weeds? The amount of site preparation necessary will be influenced by the planting method. Machine-planting of seedlings or hand-planting of...
Black Walnut Descriptions and uses Black Walnut Please for more information or any inquiry click here …… Distinctive, dark-colored heartwood, as well as tasty and valuable nuts, make black walnut a highly prized North American hardwood tree. Black walnut is native to the United States, but its numbers have declined significantly.This decline has occurred because of the high demand for the lumber as well as changing land usage brought on...
Walnut Varieties Of the hundreds of varieties of English Walnuts available - and the many closely related species - we have selected a range suitable for the climate throughout the UK and for the differing purposes which our customers have in mind. This amount to several dozen in all, which are listed below. Each entry leads to details on the variety or species. Please for more information or any inquiry...
Walnut history Walnuts are the fruit of the Jungians regain. It is a Latin contraction of Jives glens meaning regal nut of Jupiter or nut of "the Gods."Ancients believed the gods dined on walnuts, hence regain or regal. Origin of the term walnut has debatable origins. Some scholars say the term derives from the Teutonic German wellness or Welch muss and others from the Anglo-Saxon word wealh meaning foreign or...
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Walnuts Production Management Walnuts Production Management : Poor sites have characteristics which will stress black walnut trees. These characteristics include insufficient moisture, too much moisture, harsh conditions from steep slope, hard pans and shallow soils with bedrock or gravel that restrict root growth. Unfortunately, you cannot improve a poor site. To grow black walnut profitably,...
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