Northern Pecans

    Pecan and hickory are closely related, both belonging to the genus, Carya .  Pecan and hickory are also graft compatible meaning scion...

    Back when I was thinning trees out of our pecan breeding plot, I cut down a tree that four years earlier had been a forked tree. The p...

      When to thin is one of the most difficult decisions a grower must face during the life of a pecan orchard. Over the past several yea...

    February is a good month for thinning pecan orchards. It is also a good month for collecting pecan scionwood. So today, we took advant...