walnut

don · Yellow Belt Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 162 Location: Devon

Thought you might like to see the Walnut tree i grew from a walnut. I think its about 5 or 6 years old now

http://s302.photobucket.com/albums/nn101/daddypea/?action=view&cur rent=walnut.jpg

RossDas · White Belt Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 24

don · Yellow Belt Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 162 Location: Devon

From a perfectly ordinary supermarket nut

Stymie · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 8:30 pm Post subject: Re: walnut

It would be interesting to know your system for keeping it going, whereabouts it lives etc. Everyone on here will devour the info.

don · Yellow Belt Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 162 Location: Devon

its kept at the front of my house on a paved area as i don't have a garden and which gets a reasonable amount of sunshine in the morning. I re-potted it this year using cat litter mixed with compost and sand but other than that i just talk to it regularly and water it every day. It has my oak tree on one side and the hawthorn on the other so its not lonely Rolling Eyes

Stymie · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: Re: walnut

Was it out all winter and deciduous?

imholte · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject: Re: walnut

Have you noticed a significant reduction in the leaf size. From the picture it seems like the leaves are still quite young and have not elongated yet. Curious to know if you have gotten them to reduce at all since walnut tend to have massive leaves..compound at that.

Stymie · Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:31 pm Post subject: Re: walnut

They are reputed to yield nuts at six years old but I think the bonsai container will have some influence in that field. Laughing

don · Yellow Belt Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 162 Location: Devon

I treat it like a real tree otherwise it may get a complex about being small Very Happy

Real tree's don't get taken in during the winter so your answer is yes it's left out all the time. The leaves haven't reduced a great deal in size but they are getting a bit smaller each year.

delboy · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:03 am Post subject: Re: walnut

don · Yellow Belt Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 162 Location: Devon

I did pinch out the main ones last year but other than that i haven't touched it

daryl · Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject: Re: walnut

Hi, Don. That's a nice looking little tree. I'm curious to know how you got it to germinate in the first place. Was it a very fresh nut? Most of the ones that I get seem to be rather dry and shrivelled inside. How do you plant them? In the shell? Out of the shell? Can you tell us how you did it ?

Confused

Daryl

don · Yellow Belt Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 162 Location: Devon

These were advertised as freshly grown local walnuts so i got 3 and put them into pots outside and forgot about them until this one popped its head up. I left them in the shell and just put them into ordinary compost. The other two didn't germinate unfortunately. My idea of gardening is 'If Mother nature likes it she will help it to grow'.

daryl · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: walnut

I guess fresh and locally grown is the secret then. I must look out for some.

Daryl