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The pecan trees on my Mother's place the limbs are
breaking out they are so loaded with pecans. When is
the proper time to harvest pecans?
 
When they are ready they will fall from the tree.
Around here late october.
The soft shell pecans are harvested by machine.
I assume you are talking about the big old pecan trees that grow around the house. Those you wait for them to fall.
 
We've had a couple of bad years for pecans here in W. Tennessee, been to dry. Pecan trees here are as common as maple trees. Some in the older parts of town are large and very tall. Their wood is soft and they break very easy. My next door neighbor (landlord) has three good size trees in his back yard and I can have all I can pick up. Last fall and early this spring, I picked up several that were not worth picking as the meats were shriveled up and dry. I ran a push mower over the yard with the wheels on their highest setting so that the dry empty pecans would be sucked up and moved aside. Even then the pickings were nill.
 
huntingreen2day2, Nobody has yet answered your question.... When the soft green hull turns brown and starts pulling away from the hard shell of a whole pecan!
Time to harvest?.....Anytime now, take a tarp or any large wagonsheet to catch them, when they fall to the ground,,,,, take a cane pole and thrash the nut clusters and let them fall to the ground, pick them up and put in a bucket. take them to a buyer and see what happens $$$$. Talked to a fellow the other day that made just South of $900 on 2 trees last year!
 
That will work on small trees but around here that will only reach a small part of the tree.
My trees are about 50 ft tall.
 
HughB, Then I guess you will need to call a man with a tractor mounted shaker or give it up to the Squirrels. Or just wait till mother nature lets the Pecans fall on their own, but by then they may not be fit to pick up. No easy answers, just choices that the tree owner will need to decide, it worth the time, trouble, effort, $$$ / % of crop given up to pay for the harvest,,, to get someone to swing by and shake a hand full of trees. If they are as big as you say they would make a one or 2 day project for a pecan harvest crew.
Hope this helps.
Later,
John A
 
Here is the situation John A. These trees, and there are a lot of them around this area, are at least 40 or 50 years old. They are brittle and loose limbs in every high wind. The trunks are huge and I doubt you could shake the tree. If you did you would have a lot of limbs falling. Two years ago we picked up approx 40 gal. of pecans off the ground. They where excellent but hard to shell. We have no pecan harvest crews in this area. No one that I know grows them commecially.
So, since he didn't say what kind of pecan trees or how big they are I answered his question. Incidently, you can't give them away around here.
The people will take them if you have picked them up and cracked them. I have three of these big trees and all of my neighbors have several.
 
HughB. Sounds to me you have more of the Native pecan, small, hard shell. They are difficult to hull out, and most folks do not want them for they that reason alone.
Pecans are notorious for shedding limbs in a large fashion. they need to be pruned up every so often to help prevent the large wholesale loss of limbs. But they will still loose some non-the-less!
There are two styles of shakers Trunk grip and Limb shakers The Limb shakers are the kind most crews keep around to shake the huge old native pecan trees we have in the River bottoms here in Central Texas.
Still sounds like there are no easy answers for your situations. Hollar if you like...512-577-3837 and I will brain storm solution with you!
Later,
John A.
 
Four or Five years ago there was a person that posted on here was from Alabama and needed help in getting his tractor started. He had a pecan orchard I don't know how many trees he had. He sent me a big box of pecans for telling him how to get his tractor started. I had to shell them I didn't think I would ever finish. We froze them and they kept well. He took his somewhere where they shelled them with a machine. Hal
 
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