Dutch Elm disease, Emerald Ash Borer, and now...

[Indy_Guy_77]

Thousand Cankers Disease.

Black walnut trees now at risk. This is not good.

Deadly walnut tree fungus found in Indiana

 

[hoosierdoc]

My retirement nut!

 

[remauto1187]

Who has Walnut trees? None on my property. I have a forest of wild cherry trees. Oh and id like to go back in time and slap the snot out of the idiot that brought the asian bush honeysuckle to the U.S. That stuff is out of control on my property.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

Who has Walnut trees? None on my property. I have a forest of wild cherry trees. Oh and id like to go back in time and slap the snot out of the idiot that brought the asian bush honeysuckle to the U.S. That stuff is out of control on my property.

Thousands upon thousands of Hoosiers have walnut trees.

And hundreds upon hundreds have planted "plantations" of them to grow and mature and be ready to sell at 50-60-70 years old, that's who.

This really is a big deal. If you can't see that - then that's on you.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Another excuse to finish cutting down the juglans nigra in my yard. Been replacing them with juglans regia, which are (barely) starting to produce. The black ones are just too hard to get the meats out, and to me they taste like dirt once I've got at them. Plus, they excrete a chemical into the soil that prevents a lot of things growing around them. Much rather have the real ones.

 

[IndyDave1776]

Another excuse to finish cutting down the juglans nigra in my yard. Been replacing them with juglans regia, which are (barely) starting to produce. The black ones are just too hard to get the meats out, and to me they taste like dirt once I've got at them. Plus, they excrete a chemical into the soil that prevents a lot of things growing around them. Much rather have the real ones.

Funny you would use the latin name for the species. For the uninitiated, 'nigra' is black. 'Juglans' is a contraction of 'Jupiter' and 'glans', which is the head of Jupiter's [plumbing]. The guy responsible for classifying the species had the reputation for being a dirty old man!

As for usefulness, you can take the black walnuts still in the green husk and soak them in a mixture of everclear and powdered vitamin C to make a remedy which is effective against a number of ailments including some cancers.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Funny you would use the latin name for the species. For the uninitiated, 'nigra' is black. 'Juglans' is a contraction of 'Jupiter' and 'glans', which is the head of Jupiter's [plumbing]. The guy responsible for classifying the species had the reputation for being a dirty old man!

As for usefulness, you can take the black walnuts still in the green husk and soak them in a mixture of everclear and powdered vitamin C to make a remedy which is effective against a number of ailments including some cancers.

So if juglans nigra = black ****head, then juglans regia = royal ****head??

 

[IndyDave1776]

So if juglans nigra = black ****head, then juglans regia = royal ****head??

Yes, just like this one!

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Mwahaha, I do use the latin for a lot of plants; for some reason I remember it better, but I just had to this time.

 

[shibumiseeker]

While not widely known, this has been an incoming issue for a long time now. Those of us in the forestry community have been watching it develop.

About 1% of my forest is walnut. I have been thinning my ash trees to reduce the food source for the EAB, but I am leaving the healthiest ones and monitoring them.

 

[CathyInBlue]

I have a Walnut tree in my back yard that I want gone. Anyone wanna come saw it down and take the stump for me?

 

[BigBoxaJunk]

The only Black Walnut on my place is one that I planted with my son almost 30 years ago when he was just a toddler. I'd hate to loose it.

I have always been dubious about attempts to control things like this. The State of Indiana spent truckloads of money to cut all the ash trees in a swath across the state to stop the ash borer, but it only took one person to haul a load of firewood across the line or one planting of an infested nursery tree (as happened in Randolph Co.) to render the barrier moot.