Some producers do this. But we're currently in the middle of a chemical analysis, and it turns out the "goo" is not pectin. So, aside from some anecdotal reports, we don't have any reason to think pectinase helps. Stay tuned! We'll let everyone know once we have lab results!
This was a great video but the title is completely misleading 😂 I was expecting a video on how to use your forest to produce income. Thanks for the history though!
Wait until they have turned black and very dry. Then there husk them. Much easier and cleaner. Then soak them in water with a little hydrochloric acid. A couple hours or so. Then rinse and dry.
thank you for this information. I've treated this as a "wacky weed" since discovering it and stung while weeding! good to get the right kind of information. thhank you!
I used an antique corn shell to dehull all of my walnuts when they are black . No washing , just solid walnuts. Use a roots and harvest nut cracker, crack into 4 quarter or halves. Then use the cracker jaws to further crack off the shell, result 3 to 4 quarter meats. Sifted and laid on plastic sheet and sorted , meats together, shells out. Fastest way .....2 cups of clean meats ready for freezer in 4 to 5 hours. Used for several years and proven. Larry D.
you should mention more the poison in the nuts that some plant don't like and it will the plants. the guy behind me had a young tree and some of my plants started to die. i showed him what is affected by the plant and he cut it down. my plants are doing great now. i know you said the name of the poison but did not expand enough about how bad it is .
I live in Minnesota and planted Black Walnut bareroot trees I purchased from my extension office. That was 30 years ago. I planted them for the future. The trees have produced nuts, but the squirrels like them.
This video made me think of my grandmother. She had us grandkids cleaning black walnuts for her every fall. Our fingers would be black until Thanksgiving.
This guy doesn't get there are actually "HULLING" machines that don't involved this much filth work? We've used them for decades. Time to come into the 21st century!!!
Is it too late to harvest black walnuts after a freeze? I won't be able to get to them all before we freeze and was wondering if I'll be able to finish after.
I built a chest of drawers with screening in the bottom of the drawers. I cut a hole in the side and put my dehumidifier in the basement up against the side, blowing the warm dry air up through the drawers and it dries them out very nicely.
This is so helpful and gives me some ideas. I have several walnut trees on my property and a neighbor who is annoyed with picking up walnuts. I'm really thinking about how to turn these into a small profit.
*I bought a house in a suburb with a bunch of these trees. They were big and when they dropped the heavy fruit it was unsafe to be under them! Incoming! I learned that black walnuts are a headache! I had to pick up thousands of these every fall and put them out for the town pickup otherwise they destroy the lawn when the hulls get soft and black! I ended up selling the trees to a logger who sold the trunks to Germany for veneer! He made money. I made money. Bye bye headache!*
I just step on mine, put them in a wire cage and pressure wash them. I can hull and clean a 5 gallon bucket of walnuts in 30 min. But that’s just how i do it
I spent many a day of my childhood stomping on those, we never washed them and never needed to as they seemed to shed the hull just fine. We generally harvested about 2 bushels each year. I guess if you're doing this as a business you need faster throughput but that does not seem like a very efficient process. Interesting either way 😁
I always pick up the walnuts just when they fall off the tree and have the green outer husk. I just hit the husk with a hammer breaking it open then I just pick the nut of out the huck then lay the nuts to dry. I begin cracking the walnuts around Christmas to use in baking or candy making. I have part of an oak tree limb about 10 inches across to crack the walnuts on. I also pick up hickory nuts in the fall but I feed them to the squirrels in the winter when it is difficult for the squirrels to find something to eat.
I love black walnuts but they're the one food (that I know of) that I'm highly allergic to. No problem with English walnuts or any other type of nut but the second a black walnut touches my mouth I break out. They're absolutely everywhere around here too 😣
Please skip adding the continuous background music. Yeh, we know the context. It would be ok at the beginning and end, but I for one, perhaps, like to hear what you're doing.