Is it dormant? never heard of this.... There aren't even any green ones in the tree that are developing. Anyone else heard of such a thing?
2007-11-20 05:59:13 · 8 answers · asked by ryan m 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Lots of reasons:
pecan trees typically bear heavy in some years, then lightly or not at all the following year
or, there may have been a frost during the bloom time (that's what happened to mine this year) that prevented the formation of fruit
or a pollination problem (sometimes a pollinator in the neighborhood died so your tree didn't have a mate, so to speak)
or drought
or maybe the !@#$ squirrels stole them away.
Keep your fingers crossed for next year.
Good luck.
2007-11-20 07:23:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could drive you NUTS! The tree probably IS in a dormant stage but go on line and find care of fruit bearing trees. Most successful tree owners have two or more of the same trees planted, this so after pollinating if one doesn't have nuts or fruit the others will.
Spartawo...
2007-11-20 15:13:26 · answer #2 · answered by spartaworld.combat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pecan trees can go into a cycle where they bear heavy one year and light the next year. This is common with some cultivars. I live in Southern Illinois and a 16 degree temperature in early April this year killed the new shoots with the pecans and the catkins that pollinate them. The trees developed new buds and new shoots without pecans. http://www.pecanworld.com/index.htm
2007-11-21 20:31:10 · answer #3 · answered by doug1kid 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is it a young tree? Some trees that produce fruit etc. need to be polinated with another one. I don't know much about pecans but it might need another pecan tree nearby for cross polination. If last year was the first year you had the tree, it probably produced pecans because it was able to polinate at the source you purchased it from.
2007-11-20 14:06:17 · answer #4 · answered by Shutterbug 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Where are you? If your tree got damaged in the late April freeze that struck the midwest, that might explain it. If this is the case, it will probably bear normally next year.
2007-11-20 19:57:50 · answer #5 · answered by Isadora 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the nature of the tree to bear heavily every Other year.
2007-11-20 14:04:47 · answer #6 · answered by reynwater 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fruit trees have heavy fruit years and non fruit bearing years.
So do grape vines and other things you would not recognize right off as fruit.
Not to worry, next year will be more productive.
2007-11-21 20:04:35 · answer #7 · answered by bugsie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you did not have a lot of rain it will not produce a lot of nuts.
2007-11-20 14:42:08 · answer #8 · answered by diller 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋