Demise of the Black Walnut Trees
I live up in the NC mountains. We have 48 acres, and we have about a thousand black walnut trees. I just noticed that there are 8 dead black walnut trees right near the house. I just found out what might be killing my trees. It might be bye bye to all my black walnuts. Damn.
https://swain.ces.ncsu.edu/2013/01/thousand-cankers-disease-2/
https://swain.ces.ncsu.edu/2013/01/thousand-cankers-disease-2/
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that article has the phone number to the Pest Administrator, if you tell him about it maybe he can get rid of those trees and put some fungicide/pesticide on the others to stop it from spreading. 0 -
We are still losing trees because of the drought a couple years ago. We have several LARGE oaks in our yard and the one directly in front of our house has taken two full years to die. It still has a few tufts of green here and there, but I would say it is 90% dead at this point. The only good thing is that oaks drop their limbs, so I'm not too terribly worried about it falling on the house. We tried to hire a local guy to cut it down a few months ago.....he proceeded to make the biggest mess out of our yard as he possibly could. He worked one day on it, cutting a bunch of the small limbs down and letting them divot the crap out of our yard. He left and never came back.....even left his ladders and ropes there. I gave it all to the boy that mows our grass as payment for dragging the limbs back into the woods behind our house so he could mow the yard. 0 -
Call the Green New Deal folks. They'll say "Let nature run its course" new trees will grow that inherit the charastics of the survivors and VIOLA,, new disease resistant tree(s) in short order.
Or maybe not.
Think on the bright side, maybe one of the MILLIONS of different life forms that will be EXTINGUISHED in the coming years will be the one that is killing your trees.
Donate to the Save the World fund or send me $5.00 and I'll lite a candle. Rest assured neither one will do anymore good than the other. :shock:0 -
Oh goody, another tree killing issue. We finally lost our last ash tree last fall. And now I need to look for another pest that probably came over from China. We have 18 acres of hardwood trees, predominately Red Oak, White Oak, Black Walnut, Hickory, Maple, and a few others I've forgotten.
Last year we had 62 trees harvested. That may be the last time we get any money out of the woods.0 -
We have a large black walnut tree in our front yard. I love and hate the tree. Love it for the shade but hate it for the truckload of walnuts it drops(I should have asked what kind of tree it was when buying the house cuz I might have passed). I don?t have time to collect them, take the skins off, bag them and try to sell them. Not to mention nobody around here wants to buy them. 0 -
The hippy store near me gets $15.50 per pound of black walnut kernels. Big money? It would take me at least three hours to collect, hull, and crack out a pound of kernels.
Black walnut around here in kind of a nuisance tree. Besides the falling fruit, the effect it has on nearby plant growth is negative.
The lumber is not valuable unless the tree has grown in the deep woods and the grain is tight. Even then, there is little market for it.
It sucks as firewood, too. Way down on the heat producing list and makes a lot of ash.
I still would hate to see them die out, though.0 -
I agree it is bad news on a garden. Most plants won't grow near a black walnut and I have wacked 3 of them on account of the garden.
I also have burned several cords in my wood stove. I burn a lot of wood. Now this was black walnut that I wacked on my property, just 100 feet away from the wood shed.
I like it for firewood. Not as good as oak, which, is not as good as hickory. But lots better than pine or poplar. It is a medium grade firewood, easy to split and light.
Obviously I am going to have lots of it available in the next few years so, right here on my property I will cut it and burn it.
I wouldn't drive anywhere to get black walnut, but, right here on my own driveway I will cut it and burn it.0 -
sorry to hear . I hope you can get it under control
as a kid a city park had many black walnut trees my parents and many more would round up the walnuts in the fall last time I was there I see very few trees ( walnut )
wife and I both like them her parents had a few black walnut trees in there yard , but for last several + years we go to a Amish store who carry about anything especially cooking / baking and buy them there but I think around 15.00 or so a pound . not cheap but th etime and effort it takes I understand the price
on a similar note we would round up hickory nuts , same park use to have several trees I enjoyed them also but they also are gone0 -
Grandpa would always fill up a 5 gallon bucket with walnuts, then run them through an old hand crank corn sheller, to remove the hulls, then crack them and peel the meat out.
I have quite a few black walnut trees. An older farmer neighbor comes and picks them up, sometimes.
I only ever use them to boil traps. A block of paraffin, a couple dozen walnuts in their hulls, and water. Ring to a boil, Dip your traps in to lubricate them, and stain them.
They grow like weeds, almost like mulberries. I burn it in a fire pit.0 -
After loosing our three Austrian pines to drought, I put in drip irrigation. You could run little plastic tubes all over the woods Allen. 0 -
American Black Walnut sure does make some fine stock wood! 0 -
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ALL the regular ? pine trees in Kansas will die as they are not native.....some other flavors like some scotch pine the blight does not bother....had a row of the regular pines along the north line of the lake place and now 1/2 are dead and the rest will go ??....went thru Tulsa a few years ago headed west to I-35 to come back north to Kansas...west of Tulsa the tree country till it thinned out to pasture was full of gray patches and it was ALL the regular pines were dead...every one.... 0 -
My only comment for those who dislike the walnut trees: I wish I could snap my fingers and change those to honey locust which I'm sure you would adore. 0 -
Mobuck wrote:My only comment for those who dislike the walnut trees: I wish I could snap my fingers and change those to honey locust which I'm sure you would adore.
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Brookwood wrote:American Black Walnut sure does make some fine stock wood!
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It makes a good summerbeam. I cut this tree near my house, five years ago, and cut it flat on the sides with my Stihl 039.
And I installed it in my new log cabin. I put my helper to sanding it with my DeWalt 7 inch disc grinder, #36 grit to start with.
Had a respirator on Adam. In fifteen minutes he was getting sick. He had to go home.
So I put on the respirator and kept working. The toxins in the black walnut sawdust, well really not sawdust more like powder were making us both sick. I wasn't as sensitive to it as Adam was.
Went to 50 grit, then up to 80 grit, then used the belt sander at 100 grit. About 9 hours of sanding this black walnut. It made me a little sick like I had a cold or something but I kept at it, this was the look I wanted.
Here I am sanding away. This is, of course, my Makita 7 inch disc grinder, sometimes used it, sometimes the DeWalt.0 -
Walnut stumps can hold some beautiful grain patterns, stock manufactures might be interested in them. 0
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