The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Fruit => Topic started by: Hevxxx99 on September 24, 2014, 09:43:20 pm
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Not sure if this counts as fruit really...
My hazel, that I inherited in my garden has produced a wonderful abundance of nuts, but they are really rather small.
I have a friend who has far larger nuts, but he never does anything to nurture them: they are hedgerow.
Is it simply down to genetics/variety or is there some way to encourage my nuts to be bigger next year?
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My guess would be variety - there are different types within cobnuts/filberts.
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I've been biting my lip and chuckling here...
How about bigger nuts on a Phil-Bert?
(but likely variety although I suppose a young tree in dry weather may produce tinier)
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By the way, Pete, been meaning to mail you - the nuts I sent you are filberts. My mum has just brought over some Kentish cobnuts for us - ironically from Wiltshire - so I looked them up and apparently if the wrapper covers the whole nut, it's a filbert. Do you want some genuine Kentish cobnuts raised in Wiltshire (where for the first time in twenty years the squirrel left them alone)?
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I don't know pgkevet, I have a mate called Phil, and his nuts are nothing to write home about. Likewise we have a rescue cat called Bert who has no nuts at all! :P
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Do you want some genuine Kentish cobnuts raised in Wiltshire (where for the first time in twenty years the squirrel left them alone)?
I'm pretty much a nutter - so since you offer I'd love some - specially if they're squirrel-proof :excited:
I have a mate called Phil, and his nuts are nothing to write home about. Likewise we have a rescue cat called Bert who has no nuts at all!
I spent a lot of years de-nutting things. My commiserations to Phil (i know how he feels :-[ :-[ ) but Bert would have been fine if they hadn't been picked early.....
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Are Kentish cobs the biggest ones? And if they're completely covered, my nuts are phil-berts?
Mine are small but well filled and they've started dropping off.
:roflanim:
Sorry, I am serious, but it is hard to keep a straight face about nuts.
On thinking, the biggest difference between my small nuts and my neighbour's large nuts is that his are in a very damp location and mine in a sunny, dry one.
Possibly more water would help?