When does the walnut tree bear fruit for the first time?
When you first come Harvest walnuts depends primarily on whether the tree is a seedling or a cultivar.
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seedling
A seedling grown from a walnut usually produces the first harvest from the age of ten at the earliest. Often you have to wait 15 to 20 years before the first fruits hang on the tree.
Cultivar
The process is faster with a cultivar. You may receive your first ordinary income after four to six years. The walnut needs this time to grow properly.
Note: For a faster first harvest, it is advisable to buy a healthy, strong young tree with a trunk circumference of 18 to 20 centimeters from specialist shops. It is quite possible that a year after Planting the tree form the first nuts.
What about the yield from the first harvest?
Initially, a large yield is not to be expected. Often it is only a few hundred grams.
It usually takes three decades until the first very good harvest. From around 40 years of age, you can be particularly luscious Income calculate. At an advanced age, the harvest is gradually reduced again.
Note: Of course, it does not only depend on the age, but also on the variety and location, how high the yield is. Furthermore, a walnut tree does not produce equally good fruit every year. The weather plays a big role here.
It is said that good wine years are also good nut years.
In principle, the following cycle is assumed:
- a productive year
- two mediocre harvests
- a bad harvest
Then the cycle should start all over again. Of course, this is not a fixed rule, just the knowledge of many experiences.
Average yields under good conditions:
- Until the 15th. Year of standing: 0 kg *
- 16. until 20. Standing year: 10 kg
- 21. until 25. Standing year: 15 kg
- 26. up to 35. Standing year: 25 kg
- 36. up to 60. Standing year: 45 kg
- 61. up to 80. Standing year: 55 kg
* If it is possible to harvest beforehand, it is usually only slightly.
For refined varieties:
- from the 10th Standing year: 30 to 40 kg (with full yields up to 60 kg)
- from the 40th Standing year: 150 to 175 kg
The same applies here: These are only guidelines. In individual cases there may be significant deviations!
