Post by philip on Dec 17, 2020 15:54:09 GMT -5
I have a friend who has a hazelnut orchard with 50 trees of about 5 to 6 different varieties. He let me collect hazelnuts for seed and i stratified 550 in the winter 2018/2019.
I ended up planting 234 trees out. While planting them out the following winter (last year) i stratified more seeds again. I planted them in a shuffled, irregular way to avoid
straight lines. I put a wooden stick next to each young plant. I decided not to protect them from the deer because it would have been very time consuming and expensive.
I can't insert pictures here unfortunately at least not the way i want to.
I underestimated the work of cleaning the hazelnut patch throughout the year. The 234 plants i put out were between 3 inches and 3 foot tall. It was a huge mistake to plant out such small ones because they just can't compete with all the grass and fern around.
I don't know how hazelnuts grow from seed. What i mean is do they make nuts like the mother tree, as walnuts are said to, or do they always end up being very different like apples?
The selection criteria will be disease resistance, storage capability, plant vigour, nut size, nut flavour and productivity.
I ended up planting 234 trees out. While planting them out the following winter (last year) i stratified more seeds again. I planted them in a shuffled, irregular way to avoid
straight lines. I put a wooden stick next to each young plant. I decided not to protect them from the deer because it would have been very time consuming and expensive.
I can't insert pictures here unfortunately at least not the way i want to.
I underestimated the work of cleaning the hazelnut patch throughout the year. The 234 plants i put out were between 3 inches and 3 foot tall. It was a huge mistake to plant out such small ones because they just can't compete with all the grass and fern around.
I don't know how hazelnuts grow from seed. What i mean is do they make nuts like the mother tree, as walnuts are said to, or do they always end up being very different like apples?
The selection criteria will be disease resistance, storage capability, plant vigour, nut size, nut flavour and productivity.