My Edibles: Nuts Trees

Pecan - Western Schley (A) SP (Grafted)

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grafted 2010 to 2nd yr seedlings of Western Schley

Growing: In a Pot

Saba Nut ^9/10

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Tough little tree. Trunk is bulbous like a bottle tree with broader leaves. Leaves and nuts are edible. Makes a good bonsai too.

Height 30 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

Peanut Butter Tree ^9/10

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Native bush tucker tree. Purchased from the Nambour Garden Show.

Planted: 2010

Height 40 Centimetres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Summer and Winter

Pollination: No

Areca catechu - Betel Nut Palm ^10/10

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Beautiful clumping green palm including trunk. In SE Asia the seed is chewed for its intoxicating properties.

Planted: 2010

Height 1 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Sun/Shade: Low Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

Guiana Chestnut

Guiana Chestnut

Chinese Waterchestnut (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: - I have them growing in three ninety litre bowls which they share with the tadpoles, frogs, water lilies, dragonflies,snails and leeches. Dwarf tree frogs love them. Harvest when the tops die down. Keep the pot topped up and provide an object for the young frogs to climb out on or they can drown.

Planted: 127

Growing: In a Pot

macadamia - A4 Seedling

Peanut Tree

Macadamia - Not A4 (Cutting)

Qty: 2

Macadamia - H2 (Seedling)

Comments: - Bought for 25 cents from the Car Boot Market

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Macadamia - Guros (Cutting)

Peanut Tree

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Malabar Chestnut (Seedling) ^10/10

Comments: - I

Fruiting Months January

Planted: 2005

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

First Fruited: 4 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Shade

Water Given in: Summer

Dwarf Coconut Malay Green

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I love coconuts- as a beautiful shaped palm and for the fruit. This one is still pretty tall for a dwarf, but I'm willing to give it a try. I am not sure if I have the right climate for it to fruit in Brisbane.

Height 1 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Water Given in: Winter

Fertiliser or Organics Used: mulch

Macadamia - Bush Nut ^3/10

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Apart from being a shade tree and beuautiful and old, this tree is a pain! It must be about 100yrs old, on the property already. It drops masses of nuts but many are rotten or poor in flavour and we have rats everywhere that enjoy them. It is too close to the house so all during the fruiting season you will here 'bang' on the tin roof. Its leaves are spiky and nothing can grow under it well due to its dense leave falls smothering everything and its mass of feeder roots. I gathered up all the leaves, added a layer of new soil under it ready to plant out and within a month I could not did into the new soil due to the dense root growth. Only drought tolerant broms and cordylines can grow and thats when I put up a shade sail to catch the leaves.

Fruiting Months September, October, November, December

Height 7 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 5 kilograms per Year

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

When I Fertilise: Never

Chestnut - seedling (Seedling)

Planted: 2010

Height 0.25 metres

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pecan - Cherokee (A) SP (Grafted) ^3/10

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No idea why it died; most likely a lack of summer water and competition from established trees

Pine Nut ^8/10

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still growing! I  water if really hot and dry

Planted: 2009

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Macadamia - 842 (Grafted) ^10/10

Height 1.5 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Macadamia - Bush Nut (Seedling) ^8/10

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The trees were here when we moved in! They look quite old, and they require no real attention...but they give such a fantastic nut. The black cockatoos have now discovered them but there are plenty for everyone including the rats!

Fruiting Months February, March, April, May, June

Planted: 2003

Height 5 metres

Qty: 5

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Pollination: No

Fertiliser or Organics Used: used to get cow poo until we moved the fence to exclude the cows.

When I Fertilise: Never

Pest Control:

We have never done anything except let the chooks rummage underneath.

Question:

We do occasionally get rotten nuts wheere half the nut goes brown, is this something I need to do something about?

Pecan - Cherokee (A) SP (Grafted) ^8/10

Planted: 2007

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 1

Fruit Harvest: 3 Fruit Per Year

First Fruited: 2 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: shoshonii

Fertiliser or Organics Used: chook, blood

When I Fertilise: Spring

Organic Status:Organic

Pine Nut ^6/10

Planted: 2009

Height 1 metres

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Water Given in: Summer

Organic Status:Organic

Macadamia - A38

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Easy to grow and no pests.

Question:

Pecan - Cherokee (A) SP (Grafted)

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pecan - Mohawk (B) SP (Grafted)

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Spring

Pecan - Mohawk (B) SP (Grafted) ^10/10

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love the taste , love the challenge to grow hard to grow plants! this one has another partner plant growing next to it, both are now producing well!planted at same time one is markedly larger than the other tree.I ve found all my nut trees love a good watering when they re not dormant.

Fruiting Months May

Planted: 2004

Height 4 metres

Growing: In the Ground

Qty: 2

Fruit Harvest: 2 kilograms per Year

First Fruited: 4 Years from purchase in pot

Sun/Shade: Full Sun

Water Given in: Autumn

Pollination: Cross Pollination

Cross Pollinator Variety: cheyenne

When I Fertilise: When Fruiting, Yearly, Spring

Question:

can i graft other a and b pecans on my existing trees?will it further promote x pollinising? or improve yields?

Macadamia - A16 (Grafted) ^7/10

Growing: In a Pot

Qty: 1

Sun/Shade: Medium Sun

Peanut Butter Tree