Posted: 10/23/2012 8:41:32 AM EDT
| Quick question on Pecans, if the husk is still green but open, are the nuts mature enough to harvest or should I wait for the husks to turn brown and the leaves to fall? |
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Quick question on Pecans, if the husk is still green but open, are the nuts mature enough to harvest or should I wait for the husks to turn brown and the leaves to fall? My parents own a large pecan orchard. They do not raise them commercially. According to what I have seen, it is best to allow the husk to brown and split. Best advice is to wait, but, if the husk is open the nut should be ready. Are you worried they are going to fall and get ruined? TRG |
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Quick question on Pecans, if the husk is still green but open, are the nuts mature enough to harvest or should I wait for the husks to turn brown and the leaves to fall? My parents own a large pecan orchard. They do not raise them commercially. According to what I have seen, it is best to allow the husk to brown and split. Best advice is to wait, but, if the husk is open the nut should be ready. Are you worried they are going to fall and get ruined? TRG Im moving next month and want to take them with me. Also have half a dozen squirrels raping the tree daily, too close to neighbors to shoot and theyre pretty trap smart after watching me eat their buddy. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Quick question on Pecans, if the husk is still green but open, are the nuts mature enough to harvest or should I wait for the husks to turn brown and the leaves to fall? My parents own a large pecan orchard. They do not raise them commercially. According to what I have seen, it is best to allow the husk to brown and split. Best advice is to wait, but, if the husk is open the nut should be ready. Are you worried they are going to fall and get ruined? TRG Im moving next month and want to take them with me. Also have half a dozen squirrels raping the tree daily, too close to neighbors to shoot and theyre pretty trap smart after watching me eat their buddy. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Folks park outside my parent's gates and throw stick, big ones, in to the trees to knock the nuts loose. It is effective, but, not good for the trees. And, it's a little dangerous.... But, since you are moving, I would go to town on those trees and collect anything that was ripe enough to knock loose. TRG |
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Here is what I'm seeing on my pecan trees right now.....the pecans are a bit smaller this year, probably still stunted from the extreme drought of 2011. I have a few falling on the ground out of the brown husks and they are good. They are about 4 weeks earlier than normal but they are edible. I've tested a few in the full green husk that have fallen and the meat of the pecan is still too green to eat. It's got that bitter crunchy taste. The ones that have the green husks turning brown and splitting are edible. They still need another 5-10 days on the tree but they are edible. I would say this, get the nuts that are almost ready to fall but if they are in completely green sealed husks, don't waste your time or waste the nuts. It would be foolish, greedy and wasteful to knock down tons of pecans that won't even be edible and they just go to waste. |
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If you know someone with a pecan orchard, ask them to come over with their tree shaker. A good shake will bring down the ripe pecans. The ones that are still too green won’t fall.
For those that don’t know, a pecan tree shaker is attached to a tractor and driven by the PTO. It includes a metal roof so the operator does not end up black and blue from the falling pecans. Pecan crusted squirrel, ummmmmm! 
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My dad reported that the nuts are actually larger and a better crop this year. Near Ft. Worth. TRG Ive got some husks that are 3" long, most have split already. I had my kids out there last night fingering out the ones that were ready to fall that they could reach, gonna give it another week or so before I start shaking limbs. |
