O-T my walnut trees

Gene

In short, Walnut trees for some strange reason often need to be injured somehow before they will begin production unless you want to wait much longer than is neccessary. Just why this is so I am not entirely sure, yet aborists of old knew this to be the case and they would commonly strike the trunk with a large stick or strike them with an axe deep enough to go through the cambrium layer but not so deep as to structurely damage the supporting wood. If I were you this coming spring I"d give each of those trees a 3-4 minor nicks with an axe largely parallel and up to an angle of about 20 degrees or so out of the vertical with the trunk as opposed to horizontally. Do this approximately 2-4 feet high. I doubt at this point that it is going to do you any good for the year to come but the summer of "09 should see those trees start producing. My father in law has used this method with considerable success.

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I>Link used this all the time in college. Andrew

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