margaret acevedo

My hazelnuts are Arbor day which is combination of beaked, European and american hazelnuts. Beaked and european don't require high chill hours and it does get really cold in Vegas from Nov-Feb. so I think there are enough chill hours...perhaps not for a large crop but for at least a small one anyway...

Hey Brad, Well luckily for me they have been in the ground for a couple of weeks now and we had a few below temperature cloudy weeks...after i planted them so that i think was good. I have them along a chain link fence and it is pretty long....i don't think i can provide shade for all 50 it is just too hard and i am on a tight budget....we just started to warm up to 100 degrees the past few days and they seem to be ok. the leaves on the one that has them seem bright and green ..no signs of stress so far...i think i will just keep them watered and cross my fingers. the roots were really huge when i planted them so they have big roots which i think will help and my theory is if i keep them watered and the ground moist as much as i can then maybe they will keep cool....kind of like a swamp cooling effect. I have notice myself that if i get wet and am in the hot dry heat i feel cool....you can almost get chilled actually!!! because the air is dry so a bit of water really cools a person down...so i am thinking if i keep them watered they would also feel cool...at least i hope...and i can afford to water them everyday because i use grey water from my washing machine..with four kids i have plenty of laundry on a daily basis...

Thanks for all the replies....Yes, I am sure I have to be patient. The one hazelnut tree is getting more and more leaves...I am excited about that. I really hope they do well here in Las Vegas...just gotta keep watering them..probably every day in the hot summer...my dirt is also sandy but i haven't added anything to it.

Hi, I had planted 50 hazelnut trees here in Las Vegas, NV a week and a half ago. One of the 50 trees is showing signs of life and little leaves coming out but the rest still just look like sticks. How long does it take for them to start growing leaves? Why is only one doing it and the rest aren't?