Growing Veneer Quality Black Walnuts...... It's Hard!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Good video. Now I’m going to have to watch your Channel for the next 50 years so I can see how this turns out. I planted some black walnut here in Southern Oregon a couple years ago. I took some nuts from my grandpa‘s tree and planted them in one spot in the garden. I didn’t take the husks off, I just spread them on the ground and covered them in a couple inches of wood chips. Then I put some fine mesh chicken wire I had laying around over them to keep the squirrels from getting them. I had very good germination. Watching your video just reminded me, I should transplant them on my forest land now that the rains have started. My plan was just to plant them thick so they would compete with themselves and grow straight. Then thin them out as they overcrowd.

[@SJForestProducts]

Cool! I will probably do a follow up video this coming summer/fall and check on the germination rate. I am wondering about the deer with my cedars. I planted some cedar starts in that field this spring and the mice ate every one of them. I am going to try and cone some new cedars next spring. Any advice for mice eating my cedar seedlings? I'll be curious about the black walnuts and the mice too. They might dig up the seeds!

[@robertforrest7956]

I live in the Chico, CA. area were there are many English and black walnut farms. Our soil is a sandy loam mix, somewhat dry with hot summers. Here they grow well but are prone to oak root rot fungus which is all through the north valley. Black walnuts are more resistant to this so most English walnut trees are grafted to black walnut root stock. Here they seem to grow fast... Good luck with your trials, hope they do great for you. 👍🏻😁

[@SJForestProducts]

That is interesting! There are some huge black walnuts planted in peoples yards here, but no farms. I don't know of anyone doing wood or nut production in Western Washington. Thanks for the info and stay tuned for updates!

[@rockman531]

Hi Jason, Fascinating! I wish you a ton of luck! Hopefully every nut you planted starts to grow! When do we get an update on all the seedlings you planted on the 50 acres?? Stay safe! Jim

[@SJForestProducts]

I will try and do an update in the next few weeks. It was so hard to see them this summer because of all the brush! Everything has started to die back now so I can actually find the seedlings and get some better shots

[@rockman531]

@@SJForestProducts Thanks Jason!

[@sam78ize]

nice project

[@SJForestProducts]

Glad you like it! Thanks for watching!

[@Beargrim]

Buddy is breathing hard out there.

[@victorhopper6774]

i have cut off black walnuts when they were 1-3 inches thick in the spring and they usually grow crazy from the stump sometimes 8 feet by fall with no branches till later in the summer. even if they start to branch snip them young. mine started wild and are now 33 years old 50 feet tall and 18-22 inches in diameter. protect them from deer rubbing till they are about 6 inches in diameter

[@snarky_user]

Your objective reminds me of the Visingsö Oak Forest.

[@SJForestProducts]

I checked that out on Google. That is a cool story! Crazy they were thinking in 100-200 year time spans back in the 1830's when they planted all those oaks!

[@snarky_user]

@@SJForestProducts the irony is that they were just on the verge of the industrial revolution and iron ships - and Sweden has huge iron deposits, had copper dominance, etc. - but they never effectively utilized it.

[@65BAJA]

Any update on this video? Did any of them germinate?

[@gtcam723]

I’ve considered buying raw land here in western wa and planting oak or walnut. Though I figure it’s unlikely to mature in my lifetime. So why not grow those to seedlings and plant the seedlings? Please pardon my ignorance.

[@ericmorcos9949]

Any follow up video?

[@denislosieroutdoors]

Great idea there eh! I don't know if you have watched edible acres awesome channel he plants his nut trees in mesh boxes to keep squirrels out and for the roots to air prune so can easily transplant, as nut trees have a long taper root... check him out thanks for sharing

[@SJForestProducts]

Thanks for the tip!

[@conservativerealist]

Cab you make clones from walnut tree cuttings?

[@SJForestProducts]

I know they can be grafted to root stock so yeah they can be cloned. I'm not sure if they could be rooted from cutting or not. I might have to try it!

[@conservativerealist]

I've noticed on other types of cloned plants I end up witha shallow root system,and non long taproot that you get when starting from seed.i.d.k.just want to say good luck.i watch the mbmmllc channel and just found this one.i grew up in Tacoma.And I don't miss the rain..goodnite.

[@stephenanderle5422]

I hate to tell you this but some that are grown from seed are very slow growing. Maybe a sixteenth inch a year. Some will be much faster . It,s a toss of the dice.

[@BillMulholland1]

🍻👍

[@SJForestProducts]

Thanks Bill!

[@dhart1951]

Plus, you get to eat some walnuts?

[@WilsonForestLands]

Most people don’t bother eating black walnuts. I think it’s partly because the shells are so ridiculously hard to crack. They have a different taste than English walnut but I like them. I use a big vice to crack them.

[@SJForestProducts]

Maybe! I'm in it for the wood though 😅

[@NelsonJ1]

Lol, you completely wasted your time. Unless you have plenty of Walnuts trees nearby, the critters will dig them all up and eat them.

[@rodcros]

I've been at this in Eastern Ontario since 2004. Walnuts like to grow, but they require a lot of trimming to produce straight stems. I have found that planting the nuts after the white pines have gotten a head start produces tall, straight trunks, but the pines need a significant head start on the walnuts to get this effect. This year I have lost my four best-bearing 2010 walnut trees in one stand of pine when they broke as the nut load increased. I guess they hadn't developed enough wind resistance due to the heavy cover. Quite a few veneer trees grew under a dense canopy in the 25 acre woodlot on the property. Squirrels planted them after a logging session in 1965. Google: For The Love Of Black Walnuts Rod Croskery for a short film on the subject.