Posted by Wayne Hendersen on September 30, 2007 at 20:12:46 from (207.200.116.7):
In Reply to: O-T my walnut trees posted by Dave BN on September 30, 2007 at 15:01:56:
Quoting the shrewd old maxim from Jim in The Red Badge of Courage--"A Woman a Dog and a Walnut tree, the more you beat them, the better they be." While Jim wouldn"t win many nobel prize awards in the modern age - indeed he would be much more likely to be pilorized as the hapless victim of a media circus. Yet his advice concerning Walnut trees remains both sound and at least at this time, above prosecution.
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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