Got walnuts?

[JDgreen227]

Guys....shown is a picture of my 5 foot wide loader bucket with a count of 2100 walnuts in it, and the tree has produced enough nuts this year to fill the bucket up to the same level five times now and there are still at least two bucket fulls left to pick up. Tree is shown for size reference. The picture of the two walnuts shows the size of most regular nuts and there is one smaller tree out back that produces and drops the larger size...have gotten about 400 total this year from that tree. The bigger ones have a nut worth shucking and saving.

 

[joemd11]

Yikes! I would say you have a bumper crop this year. Now get busy shucking!

 

[KTurner]

Tree is shown for size reference.

That is a good sized tree. Any idea how old?

Keith

 

[mjarrels]

Years ago. there was an old country doctor who while making his rounds would use the heel of his boot to bury a walnut in the ground and say, there will be another money tree. Money does grow on trees!

mark

 

[JDgreen227]

That is a good sized tree. Any idea how old?

Keith

There is a row of several others out back about the same size but not as well shaped....the one pictured measures just over 57' in height and is 9 1/2' around at the base. I would say at least 65-70 years old but perhaps older.

 

[deerseeker001]

it must be a good year for nut crop in general,i have oaks in my yard and have never seen as many acorns as this year.i pick up a 55 gallon drum and there still a blanket on the lawn.

 

[MossRoad]

Guys....shown is a picture of my 5 foot wide loader bucket with a count of 2100 walnuts in it, and the tree has produced enough nuts this year to fill the bucket up to the same level five times now and there are still at least two bucket fulls left to pick up. Tree is shown for size reference. The picture of the two walnuts shows the size of most regular nuts and there is one smaller tree out back that produces and drops the larger size...have gotten about 400 total this year from that tree. The bigger ones have a nut worth shucking and saving.

You need to hire some squirrels!

 

[JDgreen227]

You need to hire some squirrels!

There are ten walnut trees further back and the squirrels stay there as my 12 pound tabby has totally wiped out the squirrel population up around the house. DARN. BTW my brother trapped a squirrel in his garage yesterday and he came out here to free the critter...does that count as hiring?

 

[KTurner]

There is a row of several others out back about the same size but not as well shaped....the one pictured measures just over 57' in height and is 9 1/2' around at the base. I would say at least 65-70 years old but perhaps older.

According to this estimate formula, a black walnut that measures 8.5' around at 4.5' high is estimated at almost 150 years old.

Keith

 

[JDgreen227]

According to this estimate formula, a black walnut that measures 8.5' around at 4.5' high is estimated at almost 150 years old.

Keith

WOW...!!! I was just making a guess, the tree I referred to was obviously planted and tended and the owners of the house shown in the pics built it about 1951...you say 4.5' from ground level...have to go measure that. Thanks.

 

[AchingBack]

Most of us probably own a couple of vice grips. It is a cheap easy way to crack nuts. Although a bit slow, it does a great job.

 

[aczlan]

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My parents have the homemade version of that one and it works very well on their walnuts.

Aaron Z

 

[JDgreen227]

According to this estimate formula, a black walnut that measures 8.5' around at 4.5' high is estimated at almost 150 years old.

Keith

Diameter at 54" above ground level is the same as the base, trunk does not taper at all, which calculates to an age of just over 163 years...I have a smaller black walnut out back that I grew from a seedling, going to measure that one when I go back out as I know it is 17 years old.

 

[EE_Bota]

Diameter at 54" above ground level is the same as the base, trunk does not taper at all, which calculates to an age of just over 163 years...I have a smaller black walnut out back that I grew from a seedling, going to measure that one when I go back out as I know it is 17 years old.

I know it seems like a pain sometimes, but I'd love to have that beautiful tree in my yard.

 

[Chuck52]

I do pretty well with a vise to crack them. You can control the break point and catch the fragments as they fall. I've tried to figure out which way to orient the nuts in the vise to get the best breaking pattern, but haven't settled on a particular way yet....seems pretty random how they break.

I don't mind the flavor of the nuts afer the husk has gone black, so I usually wait until then to harvest. I put on some rubber boots and gloves and squish the nuts out of the softened husks. I wait until they dry a bit before shelling them, so my hands don't get quite so stained.

Chuck

 

[BrianDT]

I was told black walnuts are not ok to eat?

 

[Chuck52]

If you were here in Missouri, you could probably sell those nuts to the Hammond company. They may be the only commercial source for black walnut meat. I remember seeing a hulling machine set up in one of the small towns along the road that runs east on the north side of the Missouri form Jefferson City. Folks were waiting with pickup truck loads of the nuts waiting to hull them. I only have one small black walnut tree on my place and it didn't make any nuts this year. When it does produce, the bucket or so it makes is all I care to crack anyway.

Chuck

 

[JDgreen227]

I was told black walnuts are not ok to eat?

If they are not okay to eat, why do the stores sell them?

 

[JDgreen227]

Diameter at 54" above ground level is the same as the base, trunk does not taper at all, which calculates to an age of just over 163 years...I have a smaller black walnut out back that I grew from a seedling, going to measure that one when I go back out as I know it is 17 years old.

The 17 year old one I just measured calculated to a shade over 23 years using the estimate formula, and a sugar maple 50 feet away from it that I know to have been above ground for 12 years calculates to 37 years old using the formula...?????

 

[riptides]

The 17 year old one I just measured calculated to a shade over 23 years using the estimate formula, and a sugar maple 50 feet away from it that I know to have been above ground for 12 years calculates to 37 years old using the formula...?????

Yeah!

I went out to my creek bed and measured a white oak that had come down.

By the formula it is 180 years old.

A branch has rings on it that I counted at about 100. Somehow I don't see this working out, the formula, that is.

If I can get the saw through the base this weekend, I'll go back and count the rings.