2001 Pecan Varieties & Show Results

EVALUATION OF PECAN VARIETIES BY GRADING

Pecan Growers in Victoria County, Cooperators (2001)

Joe D. Janak, County Extension Agent - Ag

Sam Womble, County Extension Agent - NR

Victoria County

SUMMARY:

Seventeen years of Victoria County Pecan Shows have revealed the best varieties followed by the number of Grand and Reserve Champions won by that variety in the Victoria area: Forkert - 15, Cheyenne - 12, Schley - 10, Choctaw - 4, Kiowa - 4, GraCross - 4 and Oconee - 4. In the native division, the Prilop native entered by James Rother or Henry Kallus has won nine (9) Grand or Reserve Champions and another native owned by Fred Stockbauer has also won nine (9) Grand or Reserve Champions.

OBJECTIVE:

To compare the nuts per pound and the percent kernel of pecan varieties entered in the Victoria County Pecan Show. To determine the pecan varieties best adapted to the Victoria area.

MATERIALS and METHODS:

Ten nuts out of a 45 nut sample submitted in each entry in the Victoria County Pecan Show were weighed, cracked, shelled and the kernel weighed to figure both the nuts per pound and the percent kernel. Pecan accumulators, buyers and shellers cannot pay for inedible kernels, therefore, any flaw listed below was removed from the kernel sample after shelling but before weighing and calculating percent edible kernel:

Stink Bug - black spots on the kernel.

Weevil - a short, fat, white grub with a red head.

Vivipary - sprouting, root developing out of kernel.

Mold - gray or black mold on kernel.

Oily - kernel is oil soaked.

Embryo Rot - the eye of the kernel is discolored at the point

where the halves attach.

Vivipary Rot - the dorsal ridge of the kernel is shriveled,

beginning at the apex end of the kernel.

Fuzz - 50 percent or more of the kernel is covered with fuzz.

Wafer - 50 percent or more of the kernel is a wafer.

Watery - kernel is spongy and discolored, usually off-green.

The pecan entries were then judged on primarily percent kernel, weight and color and awards for both the County and Regional Show are listed.

RESULTS and DISCUSSIONS:

The pecan crop in Victoria County was quite poor with the show having 73 entries (See Table 1) that did good in the County and Regional Pecan Show held in 2001 considering the poor crop. Victoria was well represented and local producers should be proud of their accomplishments. The Pecan Show was held at the South Texas Farm & Ranch Show on October 24 - 25, 2001 which was earlier than normal so entries were lower than normal. Table 1 at the end shows a list of the County entries and Regional Show winners.

Table 2 shows a summary of all entries for the past seventeen years and how they advanced to Regional, State and the winners thereof.

Table 2. Victoria County Entry Numbers and placings/year.

YEAR COUNTY REGIONAL STATE WINNERS AT STATE

2001 73 28

2000 95 37 21 7

1999 87 35 18 9

1998 114 40 23 6

1997 179 36 19 11

1996 133 48 25 12

1995 215 49 30 10

1994 99 33 25 10

1993 203 56 22 8

1992 134 46 16 7

1991 182 53 21 15

1990 159 53 23 11

1989 124 48 14 9

1988 148 50 14 9

1987 124 53 16 9

1986 156 48 12 7

1985 162 36 17 9

1984 101 38 13 9

1983 191 37 7 3

AVERAGE 154 46 18 9

Table 3 reveals the most common winners by variety. The Forkert variety has won 15 times, Cheyenne 12 times and Schley won 10 times. These are three very good varieties. In the native division, the Prilop native entered by James Rother or Henry Kallus has won nine (9) Grand or Reserve Champions and another native owned by Fred Stockbauer has also won nine (9) Grand or Reserve Champions.

Table 3. Victoria County Pecan Variety Champions 1983 - 2001.

YEAR COMMERCIAL CLASSIC NATIVE

GC RC GC RC GC RC

1983 Choctaw Kiowa Schley Cheyenne Hartman Huber

1984 Mohawk Kiowa Cheyenne Schley Rother (1) Rother

1985 Kiowa Forkert Schley Cheyenne Rother (1) Stockbauer

1986 Desirable Forkert Cheyenne Schley Rother (1) Stockbauer

1987 Choctaw Forkert Cheyenne Schley Brzozowski Rother (1)

1988 Forkert Choctaw Schley Cheyenne Brzozowski Moritz

1989 Forkert Cheyenne Schley GraCross Rother (1) Groll

1990 Forkert Cheyenne GraCross Schley Stockbauer Stockbauer

1991 Forkert Choctaw GraCross Success Gloor Stockbauer

1992 Forkert Cheyenne Oconee Success Moritz Stockbauer

1993 Forkert GraTex Des. Sdlg. Oconee Stockbauer Bauer

1994 Forkert Cheyenne Stockbauer 53-12-322 McCants Stockbauer

1995 Forkert GraTex Oconee Schley McCants Edwards

1996 Kiowa Pawnee Oconee Brake Kallus (1) Stockbauer

1997 Forkert Schley GraTex Stockbauer McCants Stockbauer

1998 Cheyenne Mohawk Prilop (1) Stockbauer Bauer Stockbauer

1999 Forkert Oconee GraCross Prilop Kallus Stockbauer

2000 Forkert Cheyenne Stockbauer GraCross Stockbauer Satsky

2001 Forkert Oconee Prilop Podsednik Hertz Janak

(1) Later named "Prilop" and moved to the Classic Division in 1997.

The 2000 pecan crop was a poor yielding pecan crop on improved varieties and poor yielding on natives but what was made was of high quality except for stink bug damage. Pecans could be purchased at a price from $0.30 to $2.00 per pound, depending on quality, native or improved, etc. This evaluation also shows there is a major difference in pecan size ranging from about 20 nuts/lb. to over 170 nuts/lb. There is a major difference in percent kernel and kernel quality normally ranging from 29 - 62 percent, about 32 percent more to eat.

The pecan show can also be an excellent place to evaluate varieties that producers may consider propagating. In evaluating for the best varieties, there is also a definite trend showing Forkert, Cheyenne, Oconee, Schley and the Rother native (now known as "Prilop") and Stockbauer native as top contenders for propagation.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:

Appreciation is expressed to all contributing pecan growers in Victoria County listed in this demonstration for donation of their pecan samples for this evaluation to be completed.

DISCLAIMER CLAUSE:

Trade names of commercial products used in this report are included only for better understanding and clarity. Reference to commercial products or trade names is made with the understanding that no discrimination is intended and no endorsement by the Texas A&M University System is implied. Readers should realize that results from one experiment do not represent conclusive evidence that the same response would occur where conditions vary.

Table 1. Pecan Variety Grading Demonstration. Victoria County Pecan Growers, Victoria County, TX. October 24 - 25, 2001.

# VARIETY NAME COUNTY #/LB % EDIBLE Co Award Adv Reg

301 CADDO FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 52.4 53.3% 1 Y

302 CADDO CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 47.6 47.8% 2

401 CHEYENNE LAWRENCE KALLUS LAVACA 52.9 48.8%

402 CHEYENNE KERNELL MORITZ VICTORIA 49.3 56.1% 1 Y

403 CHEYENNE DON SCHUESTEREIT VICTORIA 49.3 48.1% 3

404 CHEYENNE FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 51.0 51.0% 2

501 CHOCTAW FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 38.1 41.0%

502 CHOCTAW DON SCHUESTEREIT VICTORIA 40.0 50.3% 3

503 CHOCTAW FRANK D. BAKER JACKSON 42.3 52.1% 2

504 CHOCTAW KODY SALLES JACKSON 41.6 50.1%

505 CHOCTAW LAWRENCE KALLUS LAVACA 35.8 51.7% 1 Y

601 DESIRABLE FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 35.0 46.2% 3

602 DESIRABLE LAWRENCE KALLUS LAVACA 33.3 48.5% 1 Y

603 DESIRABLE JOSEPH KALLUS LAVACA 37.6 49.2% 2

701 FORKERT DON SCHUESTEREIT VICTORIA 37.3 45.5%

702 FORKERT FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 36.8 51.9% 3

703 FORKERT KERNELL MORITZ VICTORIA 37.0 58.5% 2 Y

704 FORKERT CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 34.6 58.6% 1, GC Commercial Y

801 KIOWA HENRY JANAK VICTORIA 42.2 39.1%

802 KIOWA LAWRENCE KALLUS LAVACA 34.2 51.4% 2

803 KIOWA FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 37.5 52.9% 3

804 KIOWA CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 30.2 51.7% 1 Y

901 OCONEE KERNELL MORTIZ VICTORIA 48.4 54.9% 2

902 OCONEE CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 37.0 54.0% 1, RC Commercial Y

1101 MOHAWK KERNELL MORTIZ VICTORIA 31.8 56.9% 1 Y

1102 MOHAWK DON SCHUESTEREIT VICTORIA 36.3 53.8% 3

1103 MOHAWK LAWRENCE KALLUS LAVACA 36.0 55.6% 2

1104 MOHAWK JOSEPH KALLUS LAVACA 35.3 51.2%

1201 PAWNEE DON SCHUESTEREIT VICTORIA 38.4 46.2%

1202 PAWNEE FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 48.3 56.6% 2

1203 PAWNEE CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 42.0 62.6% 1 Y

1204 PAWNEE LOUIE KRAMER VICTORIA 43.0 53.1% 3

1301 SCHLEY DON SCHUESTEREIT VICTORIA 51.7 46.4% 2

1302 SCHLEY FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 48.9 56.6% 1 Y

1501 STUART HENRY JANAK VICTORIA 47.1 44.3% 1

1502 STUART CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 42.1 38.3% 2

1901 BARTON CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 45.9 51.6% 1 Y

2301 ELLIOTT MRAVIN APPELT LAVACA 52.6 49.3% 1 Y

2401 GRAKING FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 29.5 48.0% 1 Y

2501 GRATEX FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 49.3 56.9% 1 Y

2502 GRATEX KODY SALLES JACKSON 57.9 51.1%

2801 MAHAN FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 35.1 46.9% 1

3001 PODSEDNIK CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 20.7 50.3% 1, RC Classic Y

3101 PRILOP DON SCHUESTEREIT VICTORIA 124.6 42.6%

3102 PRILOP FRANKLIN BOHUSLAV LAVACA 64.8 55.9% 1, GC Classic Y

3103 PRILOP LAWRENCE KALLUS LAVACA 71.7 55.9% 2 Y

3104 PRILOP JAMES ROTHER LAVACA 80.1 54.4%

3105 PRILOP JOSEPH KALLUS LAVACA 67.0 54.9% 3

3106 JOE JANAK VICTORIA 108.3 44.2%

3301 SHAWNEE DON SCHUESTEREIT VICTORIA 43.2 50.2%

3302 SHAWNEE HENRY JANAK VICTORIA 45.5 52.8% 1 Y

3303 SHAWNEE FRANK D. BAKER JACKSON 54.4 56.5%

3304 SHAWNEE KODY SALLES JACKSON 49.0 55.6% 3

3305 SHAWNEE CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 51.7 55.8% 2

3401 SHOSHONI DON SCHUESTEREIT VICTORIA 46.1 36.4% 2

3402 SHOSHONI CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 36.6 51.7% 1 Y

3601 KNOWN HYBRID, STUART-ODEM, 49-7-11 FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 32.0 48.0% 2

3602 KNOWN HYBRID, MAHAN-ODEM, 53-12-322 FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 37.6 44.8% 3

3603 KNOWN HYBRID, DES-MAHAN, 46-3-28 FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 44.0 45.1% 1 Y

3701 VAR. SEEDLING, MAHAN SEEDLING, 46-3-28 HENRY JANAK VICTORIA 45.0 45.6% 1

3801 STOCKBAUER FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 35.4 57.8% 1 Y

3802 BIG BOY FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 32.7 29.7%

3803 BRAKE FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 43.9 57.3% 3 Y

3804 GRACROSS JAMES ROTHER LAVACA 39.2 53.7%

3805 JENKINS CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 44.2 54.4%

3806 MCMILLAN CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 43.4 50.4%

3807 KANZA CHARLES NELSON VICTORIA 51.8 53.0% 2 Y

3901 NATIVE FRED STOCKBAUER VICTORIA 72.8 26.8%

3902 NATIVE, # 1 HENRY JANAK LAVACA 82.5 49.8% 2, RC Native Y

3903 NATIVE, # 2 HENRY JANAK LAVACA 90.9 43.1% 3

3905 NATIVE PATSY HERTZ JACKSON 94.3 49.9% 1, GC Native Y

4001 SCN - 88 BRZOZOWSKI-VLASEK JOE JANAK VICTORIA 62.2 52.7% 1 Y

4101 LIGHTEST NATIVE HENRY JANAK LAVACA 170.5 35.7% 1

YEAR	COUNTY	REGIONAL	STATE	WINNERS AT STATE
2001	73	28
2000	95	37	21	7
1999	87	35	18	9
1998	114	40	23	6
1997	179	36	19	11
1996	133	48	25	12
1995	215	49	30	10
1994	99	33	25	10
1993	203	56	22	8
1992	134	46	16	7
1991	182	53	21	15
1990	159	53	23	11
1989	124	48	14	9
1988	148	50	14	9
1987	124	53	16	9
1986	156	48	12	7
1985	162	36	17	9
1984	101	38	13	9
1983	191	37	7	3
AVERAGE	154	46	18	9

YEAR	COMMERCIAL		CLASSIC		NATIVE
YEAR	GC	RC	GC	RC	GC	RC
1983	Choctaw	Kiowa	Schley	Cheyenne	Hartman	Huber
1984	Mohawk	Kiowa	Cheyenne	Schley	Rother (1)	Rother
1985	Kiowa	Forkert	Schley	Cheyenne	Rother (1)	Stockbauer
1986	Desirable	Forkert	Cheyenne	Schley	Rother (1)	Stockbauer
1987	Choctaw	Forkert	Cheyenne	Schley	Brzozowski	Rother (1)
1988	Forkert	Choctaw	Schley	Cheyenne	Brzozowski	Moritz
1989	Forkert	Cheyenne	Schley	GraCross	Rother (1)	Groll
1990	Forkert	Cheyenne	GraCross	Schley	Stockbauer	Stockbauer
1991	Forkert	Choctaw	GraCross	Success	Gloor	Stockbauer
1992	Forkert	Cheyenne	Oconee	Success	Moritz	Stockbauer
1993	Forkert	GraTex	Des. Sdlg.	Oconee	Stockbauer	Bauer
1994	Forkert	Cheyenne	Stockbauer	53-12-322	McCants	Stockbauer
1995	Forkert	GraTex	Oconee	Schley	McCants	Edwards
1996	Kiowa	Pawnee	Oconee	Brake	Kallus (1)	Stockbauer
1997	Forkert	Schley	GraTex	Stockbauer	McCants	Stockbauer
1998	Cheyenne	Mohawk	Prilop (1)	Stockbauer	Bauer	Stockbauer
1999	Forkert	Oconee	GraCross	Prilop	Kallus	Stockbauer
2000	Forkert	Cheyenne	Stockbauer	GraCross	Stockbauer	Satsky
2001	Forkert	Oconee	Prilop	Podsednik	Hertz	Janak

#	VARIETY	NAME	COUNTY	#/LB	% EDIBLE	Co Award	Adv Reg
301	CADDO	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	52.4	53.3%	1	Y
302	CADDO	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	47.6	47.8%	2

401	CHEYENNE	LAWRENCE KALLUS	LAVACA	52.9	48.8%
402	CHEYENNE	KERNELL MORITZ	VICTORIA	49.3	56.1%	1	Y
403	CHEYENNE	DON SCHUESTEREIT	VICTORIA	49.3	48.1%	3
404	CHEYENNE	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	51.0	51.0%	2

501	CHOCTAW	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	38.1	41.0%
502	CHOCTAW	DON SCHUESTEREIT	VICTORIA	40.0	50.3%	3
503	CHOCTAW	FRANK D. BAKER	JACKSON	42.3	52.1%	2
504	CHOCTAW	KODY SALLES	JACKSON	41.6	50.1%
505	CHOCTAW	LAWRENCE KALLUS	LAVACA	35.8	51.7%	1	Y

601	DESIRABLE	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	35.0	46.2%	3
602	DESIRABLE	LAWRENCE KALLUS	LAVACA	33.3	48.5%	1	Y
603	DESIRABLE	JOSEPH KALLUS	LAVACA	37.6	49.2%	2

701	FORKERT	DON SCHUESTEREIT	VICTORIA	37.3	45.5%
702	FORKERT	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	36.8	51.9%	3
703	FORKERT	KERNELL MORITZ	VICTORIA	37.0	58.5%	2	Y
704	FORKERT	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	34.6	58.6%	1, GC Commercial	Y

801	KIOWA	HENRY JANAK	VICTORIA	42.2	39.1%
802	KIOWA	LAWRENCE KALLUS	LAVACA	34.2	51.4%	2
803	KIOWA	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	37.5	52.9%	3
804	KIOWA	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	30.2	51.7%	1	Y

901	OCONEE	KERNELL MORTIZ	VICTORIA	48.4	54.9%	2
902	OCONEE	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	37.0	54.0%	1, RC Commercial	Y

1101	MOHAWK	KERNELL MORTIZ	VICTORIA	31.8	56.9%	1	Y
1102	MOHAWK	DON SCHUESTEREIT	VICTORIA	36.3	53.8%	3
1103	MOHAWK	LAWRENCE KALLUS	LAVACA	36.0	55.6%	2
1104	MOHAWK	JOSEPH KALLUS	LAVACA	35.3	51.2%

1201	PAWNEE	DON SCHUESTEREIT	VICTORIA	38.4	46.2%
1202	PAWNEE	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	48.3	56.6%	2
1203	PAWNEE	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	42.0	62.6%	1	Y
1204	PAWNEE	LOUIE KRAMER	VICTORIA	43.0	53.1%	3

1301	SCHLEY	DON SCHUESTEREIT	VICTORIA	51.7	46.4%	2
1302	SCHLEY	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	48.9	56.6%	1	Y

1501	STUART	HENRY JANAK	VICTORIA	47.1	44.3%	1
1502	STUART	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	42.1	38.3%	2

1901	BARTON	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	45.9	51.6%	1	Y

2301	ELLIOTT	MRAVIN APPELT	LAVACA	52.6	49.3%	1	Y

2401	GRAKING	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	29.5	48.0%	1	Y

2501	GRATEX	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	49.3	56.9%	1	Y
2502	GRATEX	KODY SALLES	JACKSON	57.9	51.1%

2801	MAHAN	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	35.1	46.9%	1

3001	PODSEDNIK	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	20.7	50.3%	1, RC Classic	Y

3101	PRILOP	DON SCHUESTEREIT	VICTORIA	124.6	42.6%
3102	PRILOP	FRANKLIN BOHUSLAV	LAVACA	64.8	55.9%	1, GC Classic	Y
3103	PRILOP	LAWRENCE KALLUS	LAVACA	71.7	55.9%	2	Y
3104	PRILOP	JAMES ROTHER	LAVACA	80.1	54.4%
3105	PRILOP	JOSEPH KALLUS	LAVACA	67.0	54.9%	3
3106		JOE JANAK	VICTORIA	108.3	44.2%

3301	SHAWNEE	DON SCHUESTEREIT	VICTORIA	43.2	50.2%
3302	SHAWNEE	HENRY JANAK	VICTORIA	45.5	52.8%	1	Y
3303	SHAWNEE	FRANK D. BAKER	JACKSON	54.4	56.5%
3304	SHAWNEE	KODY SALLES	JACKSON	49.0	55.6%	3
3305	SHAWNEE	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	51.7	55.8%	2

3401	SHOSHONI	DON SCHUESTEREIT	VICTORIA	46.1	36.4%	2
3402	SHOSHONI	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	36.6	51.7%	1	Y

3601	KNOWN HYBRID, STUART-ODEM, 49-7-11	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	32.0	48.0%	2
3602	KNOWN HYBRID, MAHAN-ODEM, 53-12-322	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	37.6	44.8%	3
3603	KNOWN HYBRID, DES-MAHAN, 46-3-28	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	44.0	45.1%	1	Y

3701	VAR. SEEDLING, MAHAN SEEDLING, 46-3-28	HENRY JANAK	VICTORIA	45.0	45.6%	1

3801	STOCKBAUER	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	35.4	57.8%	1	Y
3802	BIG BOY	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	32.7	29.7%
3803	BRAKE	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	43.9	57.3%	3	Y
3804	GRACROSS	JAMES ROTHER	LAVACA	39.2	53.7%
3805	JENKINS	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	44.2	54.4%
3806	MCMILLAN	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	43.4	50.4%
3807	KANZA	CHARLES NELSON	VICTORIA	51.8	53.0%	2	Y

3901	NATIVE	FRED STOCKBAUER	VICTORIA	72.8	26.8%
3902	NATIVE, # 1	HENRY JANAK	LAVACA	82.5	49.8%	2, RC Native	Y
3903	NATIVE, # 2	HENRY JANAK	LAVACA	90.9	43.1%	3
3905	NATIVE	PATSY HERTZ	JACKSON	94.3	49.9%	1, GC Native	Y

4001	SCN - 88 BRZOZOWSKI-VLASEK	JOE JANAK	VICTORIA	62.2	52.7%	1	Y

4101	LIGHTEST NATIVE	HENRY JANAK	LAVACA	170.5	35.7%	1