The parents of our nut tree seedlings are selected for superior hardiness, nut quality and straight, timber-type growth. Ease of cracking, size of nuts, and time of ripening will be more variable. Because of the genetic diversity inherent in seedlings, a small percentage will actually exceed the performance of both parents. This high-leverage heavy duty cracker is designed so that even kids can crack the most difficult nuts. Black walnuts, butternuts, hickory and hazelbert all crack rapidly and easily.
Shells break outward from the kernel yielding chunks instead of bits.
Now you can have your own freshly-cracked nuts in breads, cakes, cookies and candy. Be sure that you can provide water to the trees during their first growing season. Each tree should receive 5 to 10 gallons of water per day until the end of May, and 2 to 3 times per week thereafter through mid-July. Soils with some clay that are not constant wet spots are good for most nut trees. They can tolerate wetter soils than fruit trees but will drown if their roots are sitting in water all year round.