Yes, Squirrels have no trouble getting into the nuts. Rats in Hawaii love them too. Rodents don't crack nuts, they chisel into them with very sharp teeth. The teeth never stop growing and are renewed as fast as they wear away. The conditions around temperature are as important as the temperature it's self. According to the books Mac nuts can take brief drops to around 20 degrees f. Limits are created by the people that write the books. My tree is one climate zone below the books.
Thanks for the good words. Better have a high ceiling for that indoor macnut tree. I can smell this tree when it's blooming over 50 feet away. You won't be needing any air freshner.
They are a hard nut to crack but easy to grow in the right climate. These days i have several tree is Hawaii. There are no squirrels here. In California squirrels, rats and blue jays were the biggest problems.
Mine saw temperatures in the low twenties about 15 years ago with no noticable damage. The same weather killed several Cherimoya trees and a Mexican Lime. An occasional drop into the upper twenties has been seen but most of the winter haven't gone lower than 30 degrees. My conclusion is that Macadamia can be grown over a much larger geographical area than people believe. I used to stock the trees when I ran a nursery but seldom sold one because people refuse to believe they will grow here.
Thanks. I'd like to get a sapling, but I might settle for a seed. I'm trying several plants out here that are not commonly seen the area: aloe tree, floss silk tree, king palms, lemon guava, passion fruit (the purple fruiting kind). I'm aware that a bad freeze might ruin my fun, but I think we're at the lower end of a thermal belt. The passion fruit and lemon guava already survived one winter without protection.
Ok here it is mid july in Santa Monica. My macadamias are full sized now but not brown inside. The squirrels and rats are starting to go to town on them now. If I don't pick them now I'll have nothing left, but if they're not ripe is it pointless?
Macadamia nut trees are rated by Sunset out to zones 16 & 17 but not 15. I live in 15 and my tree does fine here. I have heard about trees that grow in milder parts of 14. The books are written by the guys that plant the trees. I would say you have a good chance of success. My tree is a Beaumont and it was grown by LaVerne Nursery. Your local nurseries may do business with them and will order you one. Otherwise I sell seeds from my tree for others to plant.
I have a macadamia nut tree in California. Was it a mistake to take them off the tree as yours look but I then removed all the husks? Was going to let them dry out now without the husks on but might have messed it up!
In Hawaii we let the nuts fall and then harvest from the ground. In California we have squirrels. If I left the nuts to fall the squirrels would get most of them. I would wait until the green husk started to split a bit then pick them down and either cure them in the husk or remove the husk to dry the nut. Removing the husk is the best way. If you life in the Islands with no squirrels you can use a rake under the tree to harvest.
Just got my 1st 10 mac nuts nothing like yours My tree is only 4 or 5 years … yes I am happy and tripping out that I have max nut growing in my back yard . Ahahahhah.. so after they turn brown … then what do I need to bake or cook them? Can I eat them after they turn brown ?
You did good at 5 years to crop. Ten years will be much larger and 20 will be huge. The trees are not fast. The nut can be shelled and eaten raw or it can be lightly toasted and eaten salted. The hand crank popcorn poppers work well for toasting but if you are careful an iron skillet also works.
I usually have seedlings but we can't ship any living plants out of the area because it is a light brown apple moth quarentine zone. If you are coming into the area I can sell you one but I can't ship any. Seeds are all they will let me send out of here. It sounds like your weather is mild enough to try macadamia.
Do you need to heat the macadamia nuts to get them to dry out? I noticed you did not need to leave them out in the sun, but also could take them into your garage too.
Don't heat them unless you plan to shell and eat them immediately. It kills the seed and they won't store. Air drying is best. Make sure air is moving in from below. The garage is fine as long as the air circulates. They dry faster once the husk is removed.
Is it possible then that a macadamia nut for sale in a store might be completely raw and have never been roasted for any reason, or are they all roasted at some point and time before being sold ? Even those labeled as raw? @@GreenGardenGuy1
@@staresce Raw is very difficult to locate unless they are still in the shell. Some of the local small growers sell raw shelled nuts but they are dried rather than roasted. Live seed, in the shell less than 6 months old that has not been heat treated is what you need. At times I have them on my website but I am currently out.
I live on the base of a south-facing hill on the west (really northwest) side of I-80 in Fairfield. I believe I'm in USDA zone 9b/Sunset 15. Do you think I could plant one of these in my front yard? It gets full sun (South Facing), but there is no protection from cold snaps, and the wind in the spring and early summer can be pretty fierce (20-40 mph common). We have no tree squirrels in the neighborhood. (And where would I get a cold-hardy variety like you've got?)
Green gardener guy 1 I have a question on nut size last yr my tree produced big even huge nuts and now this yr them seem to be noticeably smaller any info on what causes that? Do the trees just have better years or weather conditions were better possibly longer good weather the yrs they were really big? Any way they all eat the same and take same amount of energy from us to get in are hand ready to eat back to removing husks I go. Thanks
Weather and nutrients can effect nut size. It kind of depends on where you live. I do get some variation in nut size but not enough to puzzle over. The same tree in the same year will produce different sized nuts. Perhaps you might see a small crop of large nuts one year with a large crop of smaller ones the next.
can squirrels really eat those nuts, ive busted them open with a hammer to get to them here in hawaii. do you know what the lowest temperatures the mac tree can handle?
They dried well, they are nice brown, dry and extremely large. Ha-ha. I can't recall if that was supposed to be double entendre or not! Let's say I planned it that way.
If you harvest some nuts and they don't split the green husk and expose a hard medium brown nut inside within the week they aren't ripe enough to pick. I have squirrels and rats in Fremont too and they are a constant control issue for me. If your trees are positioned so the only way into the canopy is up the trunk you can protect them. Otherwise the removal of all the rodents in the landscape is you only solution if you want nuts. I exterminate over 100 rodents per year in my garden.
Yes, Squirrels have no trouble getting into the nuts. Rats in Hawaii love them too. Rodents don't crack nuts, they chisel into them with very sharp teeth. The teeth never stop growing and are renewed as fast as they wear away. The conditions around temperature are as important as the temperature it's self. According to the books Mac nuts can take brief drops to around 20 degrees f. Limits are created by the people that write the books. My tree is one climate zone below the books.
Thanks for the good words. Better have a high ceiling for that indoor macnut tree. I can smell this tree when it's blooming over 50 feet away. You won't be needing any air freshner.
Great video. I just planted three macadamia nut tree's.
They are a hard nut to crack but easy to grow in the right climate. These days i have several tree is Hawaii. There are no squirrels here. In California squirrels, rats and blue jays were the biggest problems.
Mine saw temperatures in the low twenties about 15 years ago with no noticable damage. The same weather killed several Cherimoya trees and a Mexican Lime. An occasional drop into the upper twenties has been seen but most of the winter haven't gone lower than 30 degrees. My conclusion is that Macadamia can be grown over a much larger geographical area than people believe. I used to stock the trees when I ran a nursery but seldom sold one because people refuse to believe they will grow here.
Can grow in South area?
Thanks. I'd like to get a sapling, but I might settle for a seed. I'm trying several plants out here that are not commonly seen the area: aloe tree, floss silk tree, king palms, lemon guava, passion fruit (the purple fruiting kind). I'm aware that a bad freeze might ruin my fun, but I think we're at the lower end of a thermal belt. The passion fruit and lemon guava already survived one winter without protection.
good info thx, do you know the lowest temps your tree endured?
Ok here it is mid july in Santa Monica. My macadamias are full sized now but not brown inside. The squirrels and rats are starting to go to town on them now. If I don't pick them now I'll have nothing left, but if they're not ripe is it pointless?
Macadamia nut trees are rated by Sunset out to zones 16 & 17 but not 15. I live in 15 and my tree does fine here. I have heard about trees that grow in milder parts of 14. The books are written by the guys that plant the trees. I would say you have a good chance of success. My tree is a Beaumont and it was grown by LaVerne Nursery. Your local nurseries may do business with them and will order you one. Otherwise I sell seeds from my tree for others to plant.
I have a macadamia nut tree in California. Was it a mistake to take them off the tree as yours look but I then removed all the husks? Was going to let them dry out now without the husks on but might have messed it up!
In Hawaii we let the nuts fall and then harvest from the ground. In California we have squirrels. If I left the nuts to fall the squirrels would get most of them. I would wait until the green husk started to split a bit then pick them down and either cure them in the husk or remove the husk to dry the nut. Removing the husk is the best way. If you life in the Islands with no squirrels you can use a rake under the tree to harvest.
Thank you!
Just got my
1st 10 mac nuts nothing like yours My tree is only 4 or 5 years … yes I am happy and tripping out that I have max nut growing in my back yard . Ahahahhah.. so after they turn brown … then what do I need to bake or cook them? Can I eat them after they turn brown ?
You did good at 5 years to crop. Ten years will be much larger and 20 will be huge. The trees are not fast.
The nut can be shelled and eaten raw or it can be lightly toasted and eaten salted. The hand crank popcorn poppers work well for toasting but if you are careful an iron skillet also works.
Nice harvest.
I usually have seedlings but we can't ship any living plants out of the area because it is a light brown apple moth quarentine zone. If you are coming into the area I can sell you one but I can't ship any. Seeds are all they will let me send out of here. It sounds like your weather is mild enough to try macadamia.
Do you need to heat the macadamia nuts to get them to dry out? I noticed you did not need to leave them out in the sun, but also could take them into your garage too.
Don't heat them unless you plan to shell and eat them immediately. It kills the seed and they won't store. Air drying is best. Make sure air is moving in from below. The garage is fine as long as the air circulates. They dry faster once the husk is removed.
Is it possible then that a macadamia nut for sale in a store might be completely raw and have never been roasted for any reason, or are they all roasted at some point and time before being sold ? Even those labeled as raw? @@GreenGardenGuy1
@@staresce Raw is very difficult to locate unless they are still in the shell. Some of the local small growers sell raw shelled nuts but they are dried rather than roasted. Live seed, in the shell less than 6 months old that has not been heat treated is what you need. At times I have them on my website but I am currently out.
Yeah, I think I'm starting to grow a bushy tail.
I live on the base of a south-facing hill on the west (really northwest) side of I-80 in Fairfield. I believe I'm in USDA zone 9b/Sunset 15. Do you think I could plant one of these in my front yard? It gets full sun (South Facing), but there is no protection from cold snaps, and the wind in the spring and early summer can be pretty fierce (20-40 mph common). We have no tree squirrels in the neighborhood. (And where would I get a cold-hardy variety like you've got?)
Green gardener guy 1 I have a question on nut size last yr my tree produced big even huge nuts and now this yr them seem to be noticeably smaller any info on what causes that? Do the trees just have better years or weather conditions were better possibly longer good weather the yrs they were really big? Any way they all eat the same and take same amount of energy from us to get in are hand ready to eat back to removing husks I go. Thanks
Weather and nutrients can effect nut size. It kind of depends on where you live. I do get some variation in nut size but not enough to puzzle over. The same tree in the same year will produce different sized nuts. Perhaps you might see a small crop of large nuts one year with a large crop of smaller ones the next.
I'm writing from turkey Trabzon for palm can grow here, I wonder samsunluy macadamia nuts olabilirmi
What is the average minimum temperature? Macadamia nuts can't take weather below 0 c. of 32 f.
can squirrels really eat those nuts, ive busted them open with a hammer to get to them here in hawaii. do you know what the lowest temperatures the mac tree can handle?
Hawaii has a lot of wild hogs that eat them all night
We have fences. We eat the pigs, the pigs don't eat our crops.
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They dried well, they are nice brown, dry and extremely large. Ha-ha. I can't recall if that was supposed to be double entendre or not! Let's say I planned it that way.
If you harvest some nuts and they don't split the green husk and expose a hard medium brown nut inside within the week they aren't ripe enough to pick. I have squirrels and rats in Fremont too and they are a constant control issue for me. If your trees are positioned so the only way into the canopy is up the trunk you can protect them. Otherwise the removal of all the rodents in the landscape is you only solution if you want nuts. I exterminate over 100 rodents per year in my garden.