How to Plant Hazelnut Trees to Ensure Pollination | Tree Planting Plan | Irish hazelnut orchard

I am establishing an organic hazelnut orchard as part of the first phase of my regenerative farming strategy. I now need to finalise a planting plant to ensure pollination.
Hazelnut trees cannot self-pollinate, therefore you need to select varieties and distribute them based on when their catkins release pollen and the female flowers are receptive to pollination.
The following video talks through my proposed planting plan to try and achieve this.
At Gubb Farm, we are planting five varieties of trees, mainly Nottingham, Webbs, Cosfords, Halls and Red Zeller. The Nottingham, Webbs, Cosfords and Red Zeller have been selected because they are considered reliable croppers suited to Irish climatic and soil conditions, whereas the Halls variety has been selected to aid pollination. Halls are said to be variable croppers that can produce big crops, however, they are not popular because they produce thick-shelled nuts and their yield variability, so the only reason they are in the mix is to aid pollination.
Nottingham and Webbs flower mid-season, whereas Halls, Cosford and Red Zeller flower between mid and late season. The Halls female flowers can only be pollinated in the late season, which means high winds early in the season may be the reason for them being a variable cropper.
The trees are grouped in corridors. Each corridor has two or three varieties that flower within the same window to ensure pollination.
A different tree variety is allocated to each row, with the Halls distributed among the mid to late season flowering trees.
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