I've had a few someone told me to put in the fridge, they didn't mention soaking and compost. So glad I found your video and just soaked about 10 tonight. You earned a sub for this great tutorial. Thanks again friend. 👏👍
Good job; I enjoyed watching your process. Wish I had an enormous, beautiful tree like that in my neighborhood!! Wow. Hope you become the Johnny Appleseed of walnuts in England. If only we could eliminate all those grey squirrels! :0)
As the old saying goes, the best time to plant a tree is 50 years ago! I do it for my children who come and plant trees with me and, who by the time they are my (advanced) age, will see quite nice trees and say "we put that there"..
thats a great legacy and will be a rewarding achievement no doubt. keep planting on! by the way im sure you are aware but didnt see it mentioned in the video that some of what is in that dark water after you soak the nuts is actually a toxin to other plants. so dont reuse that water elsewhere in the garden or on indoor plants as walnut fruit leech toxins into the soil which give them a competitive advantage by preventing other plants from growing near them. @@howardbell281
I wonder if growing indoors throughout winter a few years while the tree is young could help speed this up? I just recently overwintered a pepper plant successfully and may try this with the walnuts. I have the setup, might as well try it right? haha
Hi Howard, thank you for sharing this video - very informative! Are these walnuts edible? What do you do with your germinated seeds and young saplings? Plant around in woods/fields guerrilla style or sell them on? Thanks
Yes, they are edible but I think you have to let them dry out a bit first. I give them away, sell a few and, as my Dad has a farm, I am going to plant a few around the place. May do a bit of guerilla planting too.
They did great - although seeds collected after I made the video were better than those featured. I have a garden full of beech saplings now and some of the seeds I saved are still viable after a year (and starting to germinate at just the wrong time of year despite being in a jar in the fridge).
How long do the nuts store for, I’ve found some couple years ago from my tree, I had no idea how big they grow pah pah I might have to move it. Wow we need to replace our Ash down south which is dying at rapid rate and planting the walnut would be fabulous. Thanks 🙏 maybe I could germinate my old nuts?
I am not sure how long they will stay viable. It is generally thought best to germinate not long after harvesting. It might be worth giving it a go with a few, soaked for at least a day then kept in the fridge - mine are beginning to germinate now. The ash on my family farm are all dying and I am growing lots of beech and hornbeam to replace them - both easy to grow,
I've had a few someone told me to put in the fridge, they didn't mention soaking and compost.
So glad I found your video and just soaked about 10 tonight. You earned a sub for this great tutorial. Thanks again friend. 👏👍
Many thanks for your tips on growing walnuts from seed. Literally dunking the first batch today!
Thank you ❤
We have around 40 Hazel trees on our bit of land that produce a load of nuts, I'd love to have walnuts too
Good job; I enjoyed watching your process. Wish I had an enormous, beautiful tree like that in my neighborhood!! Wow. Hope you become the Johnny Appleseed of walnuts in England. If only we could eliminate all those grey squirrels! :0)
planting is the easy part, its the waiting 30 years for a nice size thats the hard part
As the old saying goes, the best time to plant a tree is 50 years ago! I do it for my children who come and plant trees with me and, who by the time they are my (advanced) age, will see quite nice trees and say "we put that there"..
thats a great legacy and will be a rewarding achievement no doubt. keep planting on! by the way im sure you are aware but didnt see it mentioned in the video that some of what is in that dark water after you soak the nuts is actually a toxin to other plants. so dont reuse that water elsewhere in the garden or on indoor plants as walnut fruit leech toxins into the soil which give them a competitive advantage by preventing other plants from growing near them. @@howardbell281
@@howardbell281 And the second best time to plant a tree is now!
I wonder if growing indoors throughout winter a few years while the tree is young could help speed this up? I just recently overwintered a pepper plant successfully and may try this with the walnuts. I have the setup, might as well try it right? haha
Hi Howard, thank you for sharing this video - very informative! Are these walnuts edible? What do you do with your germinated seeds and young saplings? Plant around in woods/fields guerrilla style or sell them on? Thanks
Yes, they are edible but I think you have to let them dry out a bit first. I give them away, sell a few and, as my Dad has a farm, I am going to plant a few around the place. May do a bit of guerilla planting too.
Great video. How did the beech seeds do from last year?
They did great - although seeds collected after I made the video were better than those featured. I have a garden full of beech saplings now and some of the seeds I saved are still viable after a year (and starting to germinate at just the wrong time of year despite being in a jar in the fridge).
How long do the nuts store for, I’ve found some couple years ago from my tree, I had no idea how big they grow pah pah I might have to move it. Wow we need to replace our Ash down south which is dying at rapid rate and planting the walnut would be fabulous. Thanks 🙏 maybe I could germinate my old nuts?
I am not sure how long they will stay viable. It is generally thought best to germinate not long after harvesting. It might be worth giving it a go with a few, soaked for at least a day then kept in the fridge - mine are beginning to germinate now. The ash on my family farm are all dying and I am growing lots of beech and hornbeam to replace them - both easy to grow,
I am watching this video while eating walnuts from my sister's house garden in Farnborough. They have huge walnut tree in the garden 😅
Plant around in woods
'Promosm' 😳