The new cultivars that have been released in the last 15 years or so are more precious than the older varieties. We are planting excel, creek, Lakota, Huffman, McMillan, and Ellis. These varieties start producing enough to harvest by year 5. And in the case of creek we have had 2 year old trees that grew 100 nuts per tree. We also push them with fertilizer and micro nutrients.
Cray, having production at 5 years is amazing. Could you go into a few more details about how you maintain (water, feed) the pecan trees? I've planted 10 more 2-3" pecan trees, and I want to get them off to a strong start like yours.
Cool thread.
Pecans need weel drained soil, ph of 6.0-6.5, if you are planting bare root trim roots to fit hole. Do not wrap roots in hole! Pant top root no deeper than 2" below soil surface. Probe hole with rod all the way to bottom before watering. This will allow water ot get to bottom of hole and settle all dirt.keep putting in water until air bubbles stop. Air is roots enemy. Trim top third of tree off then strip all the buds off except the top 6". Allowing these to bud out. You will train a dominant limb from these.
Ok now nutrients. Take a soil sample and mark it for pecan. Follow the recommendations from lab for P and K.
Need to go to work will Finnish tonight.
