I'm milling Nor Cal Black Walnut. We live in an old Juglans Hindsii orchard. The colors are like good candy tastes......

I found value in the final comments! Love you, too, Mister! I wouldn’t trade the last eight years, either. Happy anniversary.

In the future, if you have to move stuff over an area, consider using a snow sled. . . I used one for moving everything 'round the yard. .tools, dirt, rocks and yard waste. a good rope, and ur good to go.

Mature trees in 20 years produce logs.... walnut is a beautiful desired wood, and logs can be very valuable..

😂 LOL STOP! 1:48 is literally me walking through my property pointing out “free” money makers to “harvest” lmao 🤣 😅

I subscribed to your channel from this one video :). I enjoy your lighthearted personality, in this video especially due to your “and this is a tree....and this is a tree....” etc. You had me rolling with laughter :). Trying to live off your own property and food can be challenging but exciting and rewarding. Good luck with your food forest and the channel. Happy Anniversary to you and your wife. And you do you with the nails....I love seeing your authentic personality without filter :)

My literal dream is to grow hazelnuts that produce black truffles

Your humor cracks me up.

I was 10years old when I thought I was planting pecans at the family Property turns out they were black walnuts 🤑 I have about 7 that have the 8ft+ section you mentioned

Trees planted, now we play the waiting game.. let the money roll in brothers!

An additional crop would be hosta plants. They thrive under black walnut trees and are edible in spring (shoots) as well as sellable to landscapers and home gardeners. You can also harvest syrup from trees you won’t be selling, black walnut syrup.

Black walnuts are delicious. A lot less meat than the typical English walnut, though, and tough to crack.

Great job on this video, black walnuts a money tree retirement plan. Google said 1 acre of walnuts is worth over $100k, I'm fixing to plant 9ver 200 wallnut trees around the perimeters of my bamboo farm for my son life insurance sort to speak. ;) love your video wish I had lots trees like u to plant

I germinated 30 walnuts, of which 3 ended up growing. They did one really strong phase, maybe 5-10 leafs each, then went dormant. This was almost a year ago, but the stalks are still green and the buds look healthy. Every now and then one bud will open a little, but then the now leaves turn black at the tips and slowly die

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I have a huge black walnut tree and have found one sprouted nut so far. The dang horse chestnut tree sprouts far more readily. Now I have a retirement plan... At 51 today, I'm guessing it's more of a retirement plan for my kids but why not!

Lol. Nice effort my friend. Funny stuff. Walnut trees are so cool.

This is an awesome project. It'll be fun to watch the progress as everything grows

Happy Anniversary! Good to see you again...

Love your video. 💕Happy Anniversary 💕 I’ll be looking for the food forest videos!

Lots of fun, lots of information. Thank you!

im in the planning phases of starting an orchard ill be putting on the back 2 acres of my place, working on a separate piece for chestnut and walnut trees (retirement fund). Also in michigan so its nice to follow along!

Good idea for the food forest. I've been thinking. Maybe plant in clumps. Each 'clump' has 3-5 guilds 10-15 trees. Then set up a rabbit hutch sheltered under the trees. Rabbit droppings are gold and you can suplement their food with whatever happens to be growing in your guilds. Then you could put up a portable electric fence around each clump and run muscovy ducks or chickens in there for however long you need. Once the trees are big enough you could even run some pigs in under them. Let them eat up all the fruit and nuts you don't care to pick up.

Even if you grow a veneer log you will only get about $300 a log because someone has to cut it and transport it and mill it there’s not much room for profit. You can pay someone to dig it up in 15 years or so and sell mature trees for a few thousand bucks but trees with more trunks and low branches sell for more than trees grown for lumber.

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Sir, thank you for this treasure of knowledge! Liked and subbed. 🙌

this video is so wholesome and helpful the whole way through!

Congrats! Thanks great info

Interesting video Twan, your food forest sounds like a great idea.

I hope you have kids because they are the ones that will reap the harvest on the walnuts and paw paw trees

Awesome video. Entertaining and so sweet.

Aww, that ending was sweet!

So I have a walnut farmer friend who has 11 acres of English walnuts. The electricity to power the well water to water the trees, paying the pickers, paying for the equipment and paying for everything else to get the walnuts to the wholesaler now costs more than you make. The wholesaler only wants to pay $0.11 per lb now. What can someone do to stay in business to sell their walnuts?

Dig any seedlings out when they are no more than 2 years old. These suckers grow a deep, tough tap root and you will have one helluva hard time getting them out if you leave them alone. We had a 5 year old black walnut in the wrong place. My husband backed up to the tree, wrapped a heavy chain around the tree and hit the gas. That tree would not come out. It was a 3/4 ton truck. It is now 30 years later and our walnut tree is 50 feet high and 20+ inch diameter. The squirrels plant dozens of these every year. Come spring we’re going to tap the tree for syrup.

I’d be interested in hearing more about investment crops/ livestock you plan on doing

Lol super entertaining video!

At first I thought you were doing a montage in fast forward but then I realised, no, youyreyre'r just really fast 🙃 Love how green it is man, the place looks great! Also makes me want to go outside, dig some holes and plant some trees 🤗👌🏻💪🏻

The husks are very valuable as well!

Das a walnut tree. 😂 this was such a great video! Thanks for the info. I’m hoping to plant black walnut for future logging too.

Also, you can make walnut dye from the husks, and sell the shells to companies that use it for sandblasting or other uses.

You can also tap black walnut trees and make black walnut syrup

Wow very good video, funny, informative, to the point, and S W A G nails. Instant subscription.

funny and informative. Thumbs up

Thanks Twon/Twan ?. Very interesting. I just harvested a bunch of black walnuts and I plan on doing the whole cold stratification process and planting process so that I can have many seedlings to plant in my parent's property. I will look for some seedlings when I go out for more walnuts. Good video, keep going!

Happy anniversary to you and your Mrs.

Great job on the video

Dang I don't even know how to comment on this other than you made all the points. I will say I have 3 mature Black Walnuts by my fruit trees and garden and haven't seen any affect although I have read about it.

Walnut shells as abrasives+right buyer (like DIY craftsmen) = more money for small bills or upgrades

And happy anniversary! 🎉🎊

Nice.... Nice Job 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Wife?! 😢 lol kidding! I got 14 years here 😵‍💫😬 Marriage is hard. 🎉 Keep winning! Happy Anniversary!!

Would like to see an update.

You can introduce truffles under them in the future.

Very nice video :) :) God bless you...

Thanks

“Always replace your divits.” -my dad (probably the nay time I listened to him) Don’t forget, you can also prune the big tree, put cut end of prunings in rooting hormones, plant those in the soil…. Get a couple hogs and train the hogs to eat the fallen walnuts. Can get syrup from the walnut trees. As the new walnut trees get bigger there will come a time you need to then them, walnut lumber is great income. (Watch youtube tree trimming videos, one guy purchased a walnut tree still standing for $56k)…

In 35 years, you'll be able to retire selling those

Pretty nails 💅

Make sure to plant 2 or 3 rows and stagger them to help block wind, +use a damned wheelbarrow ya goober! xD That is the fastest growing tree native to North America so don't dilly dally! The wood value is insane too! 30 years is plenty of time for the project . . .

Omg 2 minutes in and I'm laughing my nuts off ( I'm a chick) but in keeping with the theme. Thanks for the information, looking forward to perusing your channel.

Black walnut crotch figure and burl, is some of the most beautiful wood to work with/

Please tell your nails are like that because you have daughters.

You forget they also produce syrup.They don't produce as much but the same why as maple syrup.

Good video

Wtf with thenails?

Black walnut is my favorite wood! I wonder if you could forge with walnuts ... similar to how you forge with corn

Why the nail polish??

Great thanx. Especially the fact that you can’t plant them near other trees or plants. I wonder why that is.

I keep getting harassed by people that want to buy my walnut trees on my property in the city and I have a beautiful white Walnut on my property outside the city . Nasty trees

plant them 4 meters apart and they will self prune you can use this wood by stacking it in piles between the tree and grow mushrooms on them just another income form your trees also gin sing grows well under them in the shade again big money and a third option is that you have so many seedlings on your land have you ever thought about selling some of them.

walnut wood is So Damn Expensive.

Ella uses a lot of black walnut wood in here work. So I might need to talk to you In a couple of year about that. Hehe

How did the black walnut plants do? Did they survive? Are they big?

I had some size of softballs

You put them *WAY* too close together. Probably OK to produce a windbreak near-term, but they will need thinned in (I'm guessing) a decade. So you need to plant them probably 40-50 feet apart for your wood harvest trees. Transplanting them to thin them out wouldn't be easy as they have strong taproots. As to nut harvests: (from Wikipedia) "The fruit production tends to occur irregularly with some years producing larger crops than others (see mast year). Fruiting may begin when the tree is 4-6 years old, but large crops take 20 years." As you have lots of free seedlings, I would transplant a BUNCH of them, in maybe a band 30-40' wide (maybe more depending on available land), and as long as you want the windbreak. Then you could thin them out in a few years (they would make nice walking/hiking staves). Continue to thin out the windbreak as needed, and plant new trees as the windbreak needs (and as replacements for the eventual harvest). It'll be interesting to see your windbreak in a few years (when it starts producing nuts). I hope your anniversary is a happy one. And I hope it's also happy for your wife!!!

You can also harvest the sap to make syrup like with maples

Any update vids on the walnut trees?

You can also make money selling the green shell as goat feed suppliment

I've been wanting to grow some fruit trees. But recently found two black walnut trees. Thanks for the video. Im definitely going with black walnuts. Thanks again from an ole Mississippian.

So exactly Who buys these trees? I have 7 trees that just died from Tree borers - They are over 100 feet tall, and have huge straight sections as you mentioned. I googled , but can't find people who actually buy them for the wood.

I would have planted them further apart. When they get 10 years old they will be destroying each other, by crisscrossing their branches. They grow wide.

At about 3:45, I’m thinking, “Dude needs a wheelbarrow”. At 3:50, dude has a wheelbarrow.

Dass a walnut tree!

Those things grow huge you should have planted them 8- 10 feet apart

Your projections might be a little too optimistic, but that's not the point. Better to have trees than more grass to mow. Better to have planted trees than spend your life wishing that you had planted trees all those years ago when you thought about it but didn't bother. You might not live long enough to see trees through their entire life, although it's motivation to do all that you can in order to increase the probability that you will live as long as possible, but you can transmit your appreciation for your trees and land to those around you so that maybe some will continue your legacy. Wood is neat but along the way you just might decide that you prefer to keep trees alive, prioritize that when possible, and still end up with more lumber than you know what to do with because trees sometimes break, fall, die, or need to be cleared or will die anyway. Also, cool time-lapse!

I found one Blk walnut tree on the property then went lookin and found eight more

i have a tree that produces huge nuts. i wonder if a grower would want some for seed? every year the nuts are twice normal size.

These species of walnuts are becoming more scarce in the wilds of California. Mainly because people keep replacing them with english walnuts. We need these to stay as they are important to the ecology of California. The natives cared deeply for these trees.

I 100% agree that walnut trees are definitely not good parking under shade trees. (If you care about dents that is) anywho... not sure how I never found your channel organically, as KZfaq definitely should have suggested it by now. Had to ask Tes nicely for your channel so I could stop over and subscribe.

Hello, you are rich and might be richer if you make sap or syrup from the black walnut do in the betwen the investment began to pay your rent you have syrup to sell, that's a great Business, gratulation!

Also can tap them for syrup

You should check out Moringa for your food forest .

Where would you take them to get hulled, roasted and shelled though?

Happy anniversary bru. Have you thought of going into stand-up comedy

Where are you from? We have windmills to the south of us. Looks like my area

Oh also - hit up Hammons Black Walnut to negotiate a reoccurring buyer! 😊

You can sell the trees too.

can black walnuts be coppiced?

I was interested in the value of the walnuts produced ? In England loads of people eat them at Xmas

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