wcgypsy said:Did you have male and female trees for nut production?
Back then, there was little information to be found on the species, and I was lucky to even find that it produced edible nuts. I bought three trees less than 1 foot tall, kept one and donated the other two to our plant society sale. Mine flowered copiously every year, but never produced fruit. One I died upon transplanting (I was told), and the other a friend bought and it produced lots of nuts all by itself. Remember the tree was even more rare back then, and hers was planted 50 miles from mine.
There are no male and female trees: it is purported that the species is self infertile, and so would need another uncloned tree. Although flower have both male and female parts, the trees can produce flowers that are all male, and I suspect this whole area of interest is not well investigated. My tree grew in neutral to alkaline clay, in a typical, very open yard. The nut producing tree grew in acid sand, in cooler open forest-like conditions.
