Cape Fear Pecan Tree
Clusters of the Cape Fear pecan begin to ripen in October, and this particular cultivar is very popular for orchard growers who want to have nuts for sale for the early Thanksgiving market. Cape Fear nuts from the Cape Fear pecan tree are pointed on both ends. The bright yellow color of the shelled pecans are extremely attractive when packaged in cellophane bags. The nuts of the Cape Fear pecan are large in size, numbering 55 nuts per pound, and this papershell pecan has a high kernel shell out rate that varies from 50-55% kernel. The Cape Fear Pecan tree is recommended for orchard growing from Northern Florida to North Carolina and is a especially recommended for the States of North Carolina and South Carolina, where Dr.Smit at Willard Horicultural Dept in North Carolina released this papershell cultivar to nurseries all over the United States, and the parent pecan tree of the Cape Fear cultivar was the Schley cultivar mother tree. Pecan tarts are very popular as a dessert item for Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday festivities. The nuts of the Cape Fear Pecan tree are well filled out with plump kernels, and the pecan kernels are covered with a thin papershell that is easy to shell, because the Cape Fear pecan shells out into perfect halves it is a very popular nut when toasted, salted or roasted and the aroma of the toasted pecans is very distinctive as well as the flavor. The Cape Fear Pecan Tree is especially recommended for growing and planting in South Texas where the trees bear at an early age with high yields. The Cape Fear pecan tree variety was recommended in 1990 for commercial plantings in AR, LA and MS. This Cape Fear Pecan tree was planted at the Ponder Farm at the Tifton, Georgia Experimental Station test site and reached a production of 160 lbs when 15 years old. The Cape Fear Pecan tree has a high yield with strong disease resistance and strong limbs that are vigorous and exhibit an upright, open type growth, and the kernels are delicious with a high oil content pressed from consistent straw-yellow colored kernels. The Cape Fear papershell pecan tree is thought to be a good breeder and a good pollinator for other pecan cultivars. The tree produces a papershell pecan that easily shells out, mostly in halves.