walnut
(Juglans Regia)
Description and growing
”Dooley” walnut is a hybrid of black walnut and English walnut.
Many breeders have tried to obtain hybrids of black walnut and English walnut, and as a result, several hundred hybrids with different nut characteristics were obtained. Ken Dooley from Indiana selected only 2 plants from these hybrids, the fruits of which were special.
Our seedlings are grown precisely from the nuts of these best mother trees. Unlike black walnut and English walnut, the shell of ”Dooley” is so thin that it can be opened with the fingers of one hand, but there is almost no partition inside. To get the nut out of the shell, you just need to press your finger on the side of the shell, and a whole nut falls into the palm of your hand.
The fruits are medium in size, round in shape, and very well filled with the pulp of the core. Trees produce annually and yields are high. The tree and fruits have the characteristic appearance and properties of the English walnut, but thanks to the participation of the parents of the black walnut, the plant has received much higher frost resistance than the English walnut.
”Dooley” nuts have adopted the taste of English walnut with a delicate aroma of black walnut, and are completely freed from the bitterness of English walnut. They contain less fat than English walnuts.
This hybrid is very special!
Genetics of our seedlings
All our nut tree seedlings are grown from the best seeds of mother trees from Canadian varieties that give seedlings a better chance to adapt to the Latvian climate, soil, and light regime and make them stronger and more durable compared to seedlings that are propagated vegetatively. But it does not allow to classification of them as one hundred percent seedlings of varieties, as for the harvest of nuts there is a need for cross-pollination with other nut trees.
Mother tree varieties
All our seedlings have mother tree varieties with excellent taste, large core size, thin shell, increased frost resistance, and rich yield. Genetically they may differ in sizes, shapes, ripening terms, and regularity of yield.