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[LostHawg]

Pecans?

I've got a forked pecan tree. One fork bears some really good tasting healthy pecans and the bark is darker in color, the other fork is taller, larger leaves, greener, but doesn't bear at all. Do you suppose this was a graft or is this normal in pecans? It forks about a foot above ground level.

I'm tempted to remove the non-bearing fork and build me a useful longbow with it, but I'm waiting to see what comes of it.

[Graybow]

Hawg, it sounds like a graft. And a bad one at that.

[junior]

I would try to have a graft done on the bad limb!

[GR5]

bad graft

[LostHawg]

The thing that gets me is other than it being sterile, its a very healthy growth. I'll give it till next January and take it off and paint the nub. Should be able to get me a couple new bows out of it. Back them with rawhide, bamboo or sinew and go shoot a deer with it. It'll probably allow the good limb to flourish too.

Thanks.

[Archer156]

LostHawg, You are just like the rest of us primitive self bow makers,always seeing a bow in every tree you see! Should make some nice bows for sure!

Back to the reason that part of the tree is different,maybe it was another tree that grew next to the other one and they started growing together? I have seen them do that sometimes. Just a thought! Better yet just cut it down and make some bows out of it! Kenny

[LostHawg]

Kenny, that's actually what I thought at first. I'm just curious as to why its sterile...