[Woodcarver] CHAT! No Black Walnuts?

[Sylda]

How big is the local squirrel population?  Do you have neighborhood nut
thieves?  No, I think Clive was right ‹ no fuel for the nut fairies!!
Sorry, I think all the nuts you¹ll have to put up with this year are right
here in the ³list².  Love ya¹ all, Sylda

On 10/6/04 9:20 AM, "David Thompson" <woodshavings at somd.net> wrote:

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> Didja have a late frost in the Spring that might've bitten the catkins? Also,
> most nut trees bear relative to the environmental conditions of the year
> before...
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> This is CHAT so please feel free to use your delete command!
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> OK, I have a question to throw out to anyone along the East Coast or
> Central US ...
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> I'm out walking this morning and because of our talk about softwoods vs.
> hardwood, and that our leaves are changing colors, I was paying more
> than normal attention to the trees in our yard. Now I noticed something
> very unusual ... We have a wide variety of trees which includes two
> English Walnuts, several Black Walnuts, and two Chinese Chestnuts, all
> well matured and nut baring. Only there are no nuts. Having noticed
> this oddity I did a little closer inspection. There is not one black
> walnut nut, not one English walnut nut, and zero chestnuts on the ground
> or still on the tree!
> 
> This has never happened before. We have had years where the nut crops
> were very small but never where there wasn't even one nut on the ground.
> I should note here that we have lived on this piece of land for about 30
> years, so I know that this is a Once in 30 years occurrence. It was not
> an unusually wet or dry year, we don't have any blights that I know of,
> we didn't even have an unusually large amount of caterpillars that could
> have damaged every nut bearing tree. Having raked my little brain I can
> come up with only one idea. Could this be a result of the 17 year
> cicadas????
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated because this really has me baffled. Has
> anyone else noticed this or am I hallucinating?
> 
> Thanks, Susan
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