Canada Black Walnut Trees/Orchards/Nuts. Tincture

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Particularly for anyone who lives in a province where these trees grow, which seems to be BC, ON, and QC. Especially if you have these trees, or work on an orchard with them, or maybe know someone who does.

Can you tell me about “industry” or the processes and products they make there from the trees and nuts?

-Are they selling the harvested nuts, both in shells (shells, not hulls) and out of shell?
-Are they selling walnut wood/lumber?
-What do the ‘fruits’ (outer hull and all) look like when they harvest? Are the hulls still green, or are they not green anymore if the fruit is harvested only for the purpose of the nuts inside (ie "ripe). What are they doing with the hulls of the walnuts?

Are they doing something with the hulls? Maybe compost, or sold for some other purpose? Or are they just discarded?

Just wondering if they are aware there’s another valuable and useful product there (again that is if the hulls are still viable for their best use once the actual nuts inside are viable/harvested for their intended use - eating). I think even the ripe hulls are useful, but they have a much lower “juglone” content, reportedly.

Very quick reference:

Plenty of video of people making it with raw ingredients from the seemingly common black walnut tree on youtube. Incredibly easy.

Thanks.

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I don’t know about the husks but my FIL planted a grove many years ago and says they are a part of his inheritance.

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The only plant that will grow ok under a Black Walnut is Rhubarb (that I know of), Cedar is somewhat tolerant but will be stunted.
The shells and nuts are tough to compost, I think there is an insecticide property to them as well.

I’m surprised someone is actually consuming a tincture derived from that…

Cheers
G

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It’s a new one for me too, @Gpaw.

I planted several black walnuts some years ago. They struggled to thrive this far south. One or two black walnuts later they are only a memory.

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It’s not the shells or the nuts. It’s the green “hulls”, which surround the shell, which has the key ingredient that is a vermifuge/vermicide. Juglone, from the Juglans Nigra.

Been a known remedy for a long, long time, apparently. Like wormwood (the absinthium one, not the “sweet” wormwood, which is different and has different beneficial properties.

If anyone lives in an area where these trees grow, they have access to some great stuff, every year. Food and medicine.

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