Losing my nuts..Help! - Page 2

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ORIGINAL: Dennis

My NUTS are looking good this year

Last year was a complete loss...Pecan weevils infested the tree and layed larve eggs and the grub consumed my nuts from the inside out.

Keep in mind, I'm very partial to my NUTS...I started this tree from a single nut about 12 years ago..The tree is about 30' tall now and full of NUTS...This year I'm handling my nuts with kit gloves. I spray plenty of insecticide on my NUTS once a weeks..so far so good...This year should be a bountiful harvest..I can't wait to get my first good NUT for a change.....My NUTS should make pretty good stocking stuffers for the holidays.

And I, for one, will be expecting these nuts in my stocking!!

Consider it done My Love..how ya feeling?

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ORIGINAL: Dennis

Consider it done My Love..how ya feeling?

I'm feeling much better sweets and thank you for asking.

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ORIGINAL: Dennis

Hopefully there is a horticulturist here that can help me....

My Peacan tree is losing his nuts..He's about 12 years old and looks healthy and flurishing. I started him from a single Peacan nut...He has matured from adolescents into manhood about 3 years ago and has been producing a bountiful amount of nuts each year since..This year during the long HOT dry spell, I kept his roots irrigated with a deep root watering probe, fertilized and ironated and applied some Malathion to keep the tent worms at bay as the usual treatment every year, he show no signs of heat stress whats so ever...But all of a sudden since the hot weather ebbed and things are cooling off and the rains have returned some, he started to lose a lot of his nuts..not all, but a least half of them have fallen...Any ideas as to what is going on?

Are you sure some neighborhood kids didn't grab a hold of your trunk and give it a good shake? Nuts just don't drop unless they have some help...