posted 7 years ago
Just wanted to chime in about the native varieties. I am in south central Mo and have 24-30" abh pecan trees all around my house. They are really good and dont seem to be too hard to crack. Seedlings everywhere, and they grow fast. The neatest thing I have discovered about them is that they not only deliver a payload at harvest time, but also hold fruit nearly all winter, dropping it a little at a time. I did not realize this until a few years back when we had a big snow and then that got covered with a layer of ice. Every day there were new pecans on top of the ice and the wildlife was happy for it.