My Pecan, which I purchased from Bill Bownds Nursery, was planted in February 2014, and seemed to adapt well to the clay soil. In fact most of the larger native trees growing around this region are Live Oaks, Pecans, Green Ash, and Sugarberry.
In the summer of 2014 it produced an enormous crop of large nuts. The nuts weighed down the branches so much that a passing storm broke off three major branches.
Less nuts were produced in 2015. In 2015, I didn't treat this tree with imidacloprid and it ended up with significant defoliation, probably mostly from june-bugs. However, I also found another interesting leaf muncher, a big fat green caterpillar that looks like it might be a "twin-spotted sphinx" caterpillar.
By the way, the nuts on this tree taste disgusting!
The tree is popular with leaf-footed bugs - here is a picture from September 17th 2016. On April 8th 2017, the tree was starting to leaf out.
In late April, the tree was smothered in dangling yellow-green catkins.
In 2019, for an unknown reason, this tree became a lot less vigorous than previous years - I would have expected at least this tree to do OK in my yard, considering there are so many Pecan's growing wild everywhere in this region where it seems to be one of the three most common native trees, together with the Sugarberry and Live Oak.
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Pecan in early July 2021
Pecan in early July 2020
Pecan (end of June 2019)
Pecan (July 2018)
Pecan (July 2017)
Pecan (July 2016)
Pecan (May 2014)
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