Pecan trees require a different variety of pecan tree to be planted within.

Yes, but only because the limbs were already dead. If all pecan wood got brittle with age, none of the famous human pecan threshers would have survived. Trapped bark can be a problem when limbs form"V" crotches. Over time the bark accumulates in the"V" causing the areas to be weak. We’ve been told that pecan trees are self pruning. Is there a way to stop the limbs from dropping? The tree appears healthy with no visible damage to the limbs.

A: This looks like normal pecan behavior. Due to brittle wood, they lose big limbs regularly. Pecan growers perform regular preventative pruning to keep limb weight balanced and not too vigorous. All dropped limbs/branches are dead and are not too large in size (maybe 9" around at most).

Breakage is coming from the lowest limbs or lower 1/3 of the tree.

Care of bearing trees: To realize good annual production, trees must be adequately fertilized and insect- and disease-controlled.

Judging from the spring growth I see that the outer-most branches on the lowest limbs appear to be dead. (They were alive last year.) The tree is about 35' tall. The root flare is not covered. 49 rowsOct 20, If pruning pine bush are stressed in the fall, they will not set a large crop the following. When limbs are drooping so much that pecans are in the dirt!!

Please tell me you are kidding.

you should know you need to thin the nuts!! remove 50 percent of all the pecan clusters or groups of nuts by cutting the entire clusters off with hand pruners or shears. Remove 50 percent of all the pecan clusters or groups of nuts by cutting the entire clusters off with hand pruners or shears. a random sample of accessible limbs of approximately equal diameters expanded to tree totals based on the total number of limbs on the tree (ECSL) and pounds of good nuts harvested per tree. The correlation for counts made August ) was higher than the.

The pecan tree presents one major obstacle which is not fomd in other fruit and nut studies. The tree is extremely tall; sometimes taller than feet. This is a problem since present objective yield fruit and nut crop models are based on expansion of nut COtUltson selected sample limbs from the"entire tree" to tree.

Aug 31, The pecan weevil is the most serious late-season pest because it attacks the nut. Pecan weevils cause two types of damage. The first type occurs when adult weevils puncture the nuts while feeding before the shell hardens. This can result in the nuts dropping from the tree. The larva feeding within the nut causes the second type of damage. The webs that occur in pecan trees are formed by the caterpillar of an insect called the fall webworm.

The adult fall webworm is a stout-bodied white moth with a wingspan of about one inch. The forewings are sometimes marked with brownish-colored or black spots.