Yesterday, I found that the earliest ripening cross in our pecan breeding plot had split shuck. So today, I inspected all of our pecan cultivar trials at the Pecan Experiment Field to discover which early ripening pecans had split shucks.
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| Henning, 21 Sept. 2017 |
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I found three pecan cultivars with split shucks (photos at right and below). Henning and Mullahy are northern pecan cultivars first discovered as native trees. SWB617 is a chance Giles seedling we have at the research station. I expected Warren 346 be be ripe at this time but our trees of this cultivar do not have a nut crop this year.
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| Mullahy, 21 Sept. 2017 |
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| SWB617, 21 Sept. 2017 |
