Top graft is Liberty. Second highest graft is Earlton. The lowest graft is Hark. Two, horizontal branches of the understock (a Kanza seedling) were left. They point to the west.
A graft of Liberty Pecan was put into the tree just north of the house. A graft was put into the seedling along the road. It is the second tree starting from the east property line.
Hey Joe - not trying to be a dink, I am asking because I don't know: why all this grafting business? Why not just start an entire new tree...? What is the advantage to all this grafting? Are you short of room in the orchard?
ReplyDeleteSome species of trees transplant more easily than others. I can avoid the shock of transplanting AND have five years worth of root-growth to push the new variety.
DeleteAdditionally, the pecan trees that line my driveway came from seed collected in Northern Illinois and Iowa on islands in the Mississippi. The nuts are tiny and even when cracked do not release the nut meats.
The varieties I am grafting will probably not ripen very often, but nuts don't have to be filled to commercial standards for the to be viable seeds. Basic plant breeding, find parents that between the two of them have the characteristics you are looking for.
I know you are not trying to be a dink. You and me are similar. We radiate DINKness without any effort.
Haaaaaha dinkness
ReplyDeleteI remember when I went to a pecan growers seminar at Texas A&M one year. The instructor was going on and on about Kanza. I mentioned it appeared to me to be an exceptional seedling that a university claimed for profit, boy did I get the your a dink looks the rest of the week
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