Author Topic: Small nuts. (Read 2608 times)

Hevxxx99 · « **on:** September 24, 2014, 09:43:20 pm »

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?

HesterF · « **Reply #1 on:** September 25, 2014, 12:01:53 am »

My guess would be variety - there are different types within cobnuts/filberts.

pgkevet · « **Reply #2 on:** September 25, 2014, 09:58:34 am »

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)

HesterF · « **Reply #3 on:** September 25, 2014, 10:14:35 am »

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)?

Womble · « **Reply #4 on:** September 25, 2014, 10:23:08 am »

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!

pgkevet · « **Reply #5 on:** September 25, 2014, 02:03:00 pm »

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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

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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.....

Hevxxx99 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 25, 2014, 02:58:08 pm »

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.

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?