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Post by dw on Nov 12, 2016 18:24:59 GMT
I have read a couple places that this nut tree could grow in Colorado and am looking for any information. THANKS!
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Post by Use Less on Nov 12, 2016 19:56:44 GMT
Hazelnuts are a little difficult. The European varieties they grow commercially in the Pacific Northwest have the nice big nuts, but are susceptible to Eastern hazelnut blight. The smaller hazelnut bushes that grow wild in the east don't get it, or can survive it. You want to ask around as to whether anyone has grown those European ones successfully near you. NYS used to sell the bushes as wildlife/conservation plantings. One of ten I planted died quickly, the others grew. Different sizes, slightly different leaves, different spreading pattern, different nut sizes, plus some that had more singles, others pairs of clusters. I think there is a gender factor, too, though not strongly male and female. It took years before I finally got nuts that were as big as my fingertip. Others stayed tiny.
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Post by Maura on Nov 12, 2016 22:55:10 GMT
Arbor Day has developed a hazelnut hybrid bush that is supposed to withstand cold winters. I have planted six of them with two making it. One was mowed over by a neighbor. One turned out to be a maple tree. Two died over the winter. The problem is they ship you the babies at the “right” time, which is too cold. Last year I overwintered two of them in the house and planted them in the spring. These are the keepers.
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Post by AD in WNC on Nov 12, 2016 23:54:31 GMT
I got two small (maybe 2 ft tall) trees at Tractor Supply in February and planted them right away. So far they seem to be doing well, even with our current drought. I expect that it will take a few years before they produce any nuts at all.
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Post by aunatural on Nov 13, 2016 21:05:18 GMT
How cold does it get there? I have two trees that I planted 20 years ago on a whim and am harvesting around 6-7 gallons of nuts each year. It did take around 15 years before they started to bear nuts. Hazelnuts are zone 5 or warmer. I used to be in zone 5. Things have gotten warmer and I am now (same location) in zone 6/7???
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Post by oxankle on Nov 13, 2016 21:43:08 GMT
I have a hazelnut "bush" in my yard. It was a stubby, ill formed and struggling tree when I came, and I told a tractor operator to straddle it when he had to do work in the back yard--he had to get in over it or dig it out. He broke off the trunk and over the summer fifteen or twenty sprouts came out of the ground, chest high now. The little tree had a few nuts on it the winter I moved in, so I expect that the bush will bear catkins next fall, nuts the following year. The shelled nuts were a bit larger than a large pea, certainly acceptable. I think we may be at the N. end of their range.
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Post by Skandi on Nov 14, 2016 11:25:12 GMT
Wild european hazlenuts grow right up into the north of norway and in sothern Finland, So I think there will be a nut tree for you, it just might be hard to get hold of. (according to a quick search that's zones 4 and 5)
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Post by shin on Nov 14, 2016 14:44:45 GMT
I nearly bought some once from "England's Orchard and Nursery" in KY, from their online store awhile back to try out here in zone 6a. There are some new cultivars that are very blight resistant, particularly the Jefferson variety (requires a different type to pollinate with for nuts).
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Post by coppice on Nov 18, 2016 1:02:22 GMT
I had american corylus in the lakes region of NH, and I have it again in SE-OH. Shrugs.
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Post by jangirl on Dec 6, 2016 3:45:21 GMT
dw, I planted some here (I'm south of you about 80-100 miles). They lived the first year but died during the winter. I didn't mulch them or water during the winter and I don't remember what the weather was, it's been a good 12 or 15 years. I'd certainly like to try them again, tho. Tried more last year but they also died over the winter...with the exception of the one hubby killed with the weed whacker! Might be my soil here, but the cold, drying winds just don't bode well for some things. I can't get grapes to grow here, either.
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Post by oxankle on Dec 10, 2016 1:56:40 GMT
Did some research on those last week. One source says that layered or self-rooted plants from an old tree will bear within the first or second year while seedlings may take up to seven years. My "tree" was destroyed, but now I have several "bushes" that came up from the roots. I plan to transplant some of those next Spring. Still looking for a pollinator.
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