ScottOkla
Silver Member
I have grafted hickory onto pecan, but not the other way. Pecan will generally grow faster than hickory so over the years the pecan top will outgrow the hickory bottom. I don't think there is much benefit to grafting onto hickory if pecan rootstock is available. It loooks cool, though.
The drought this year would not generally impact the number of pecans on the tree except for late in the season when the tree might drop the crop. What does impact the crop amount this year is the tree health from last year and the nutrients used up to make last year's large crop. On my place we had almost no crop this year because last year was too wet and humid (causing leaf diseases, etc.) and because the trees made large crops last year and they don't have enough stored nutrients to make a crop two years in a row (called alternate bearing). Next year should be good because this year's dry weather kept the leaves very healthy all year and the amount of sunlight was almost unprecendented this year. Unless the trees couldn't get to enough water to maintain the leaves all season, they will be in great shape heading into next year.
The drought this year would not generally impact the number of pecans on the tree except for late in the season when the tree might drop the crop. What does impact the crop amount this year is the tree health from last year and the nutrients used up to make last year's large crop. On my place we had almost no crop this year because last year was too wet and humid (causing leaf diseases, etc.) and because the trees made large crops last year and they don't have enough stored nutrients to make a crop two years in a row (called alternate bearing). Next year should be good because this year's dry weather kept the leaves very healthy all year and the amount of sunlight was almost unprecendented this year. Unless the trees couldn't get to enough water to maintain the leaves all season, they will be in great shape heading into next year.
