Thanks for dispelling the myth that bitternut hickories have no wildlife value. I did not realize they also have a use for humans in terms of the oil in the nuts. Interesting video!
I found out about bitternut hickories just yesterday. Good to know there is a way to use them without having to go through the soaking process to leach the tannins. My friend recently bought a farm with acres and acres of walnut, oak, shagbark and bitternut hickory trees. Lucky me I have permission to harvest as many nuts as I want!
I just located several of these trees on the property mapping it's plants this year. I knew we had hickory because something always drops the nuts around the house. I ate those and found them delicious, like a buttery macadamia nut. Hunting I only found one shagbark so far. I tried the bitternut and was very discouraged. Happy there is a use for them after all.
I also noticed that a lot of books say it has no wildlife value, but I found a few massive bitternuts on our woodlot and the ground looks completely scraped underneath from animals foraging. Also noticed some chewed and broken-open bitternuts atop a log. Probably not as appetizing as acorns from a white oak, but I'm guessing they're similar in wildlife value to red oak acorns
Hello I saw on your website that you offer a propagation course where you get plant material and you teach on how to propagate. I noticed that there was a $100 level where it’s simply email correspondence. Is that available, even though seed and plant material is not?
Yeah I’ve heard people say that and it’s just ridiculous honestly. That’s like saying an oak has no ecological value. Doesn’t make sense. I’m also wondering if you can boil the nuts then dry them out and make like a nut butter or something like that
They are said to take 20 years before they start to make nuts. Shagbark is said to produce in 8. Just make sure they sink in water and then bury them half way in dirt where you want it to grow. If you want to grow them up further, put them in a deep pot with a little hardware cloth over it, water it and then leave it in an unheated garage for the winter and plant it out in the spring. Usually my dormant plants wake up in March and I finish growing them in my sunroom till I harden them off and plant them after frost. I have not grown bitternut from seed, but I have done lots and lots of trees and shrubs. I keep many seeds cold stratifying in the fridge, but the nuts are one who go moldy in there so I like nature to take care of them on the bottom porch from summer to fall planted (covered with wire to protect from chipmunks who I catch out there) when fresh and in the unheated basement to over winter.
that is great to know. Can we get you to do an oil pressing video?
Thank you for this. Bought 10 seeds and now I'm excited to see what happens
Thanks for dispelling the myth that bitternut hickories have no wildlife value. I did not realize they also have a use for humans in terms of the oil in the nuts. Interesting video!
I found out about bitternut hickories just yesterday. Good to know there is a way to use them without having to go through the soaking process to leach the tannins. My friend recently bought a farm with acres and acres of walnut, oak, shagbark and bitternut hickory trees. Lucky me I have permission to harvest as many nuts as I want!
I just located several of these trees on the property mapping it's plants this year. I knew we had hickory because something always drops the nuts around the house. I ate those and found them delicious, like a buttery macadamia nut. Hunting I only found one shagbark so far. I tried the bitternut and was very discouraged. Happy there is a use for them after all.
I also noticed that a lot of books say it has no wildlife value, but I found a few massive bitternuts on our woodlot and the ground looks completely scraped underneath from animals foraging. Also noticed some chewed and broken-open bitternuts atop a log. Probably not as appetizing as acorns from a white oak, but I'm guessing they're similar in wildlife value to red oak acorns
Great video, bud!
Hickories are really amazing! I've been getting in to them this year, and I have a big sack to make it through the winter.
Great information about a beautiful tree.
Please make a how-to video showing your press and how you make bitternut oil. Thanks!
Wow, I had no idea about this nut! Thanx so much for sharing your knowledge! ❤️🙏🏼🇺🇸
Great video Mr. Akiva Silver aka James Franco...and yes, Sam Thayer is the man. Buy all of his books people!
Looks yum, location? 🧡
Akiva was that your old Tacoma with camper shell across the street?
Can you a video on how to make oil from them ? I really have no idea - my family was totally city folk !
What do you do with the residue after the oil is pressed? Do you compost it? Throw out to the woods? Feed to chicken? Charcoal?
Nice cameo by the shirtless guy with the garbage bag ;)
tractor fuel and gourmet cooking oil falling from the sky
Hello I saw on your website that you offer a propagation course where you get plant material and you teach on how to propagate. I noticed that there was a $100 level where it’s simply email correspondence. Is that available, even though seed and plant material is not?
Incredible. Are there any nuts palatable for eating that can generate oil as easily??
Hazelnut would be the closest to this ones oil production while maintaining palatability, but obviously that's a very different tree than this one.
Does the fresh pressed oil have bad tannins in it?
I have found some that I eat straight they have a little bitterness and astringency but they are not all that bad.
Yeah I’ve heard people say that and it’s just ridiculous honestly. That’s like saying an oak has no ecological value. Doesn’t make sense.
I’m also wondering if you can boil the nuts then dry them out and make like a nut butter or something like that
What oil press do you use?
Kern Kraft 20
Thanks@@akivasilver-twistedtreefar3930
Has anyone had any luck propagating these? And how do you do it?
they grow wild like weeds in my area
They are said to take 20 years before they start to make nuts. Shagbark is said to produce in 8. Just make sure they sink in water and then bury them half way in dirt where you want it to grow. If you want to grow them up further, put them in a deep pot with a little hardware cloth over it, water it and then leave it in an unheated garage for the winter and plant it out in the spring. Usually my dormant plants wake up in March and I finish growing them in my sunroom till I harden them off and plant them after frost. I have not grown bitternut from seed, but I have done lots and lots of trees and shrubs. I keep many seeds cold stratifying in the fridge, but the nuts are one who go moldy in there so I like nature to take care of them on the bottom porch from summer to fall planted (covered with wire to protect from chipmunks who I catch out there) when fresh and in the unheated basement to over winter.
I've read that bitternut is the best rootstock for Carya species.
Butternut. Not butternut?
I have a yard full😇 my house is built from them.
It says they’re not edible to humans . This true
Here where I live that tree would have been cut down by the utility company.