Wood Choice Boston Butt

Yep,pecan is just the next step milder from hickory in the nut woods.

Lots of folks like it on long cooks,especially if it grows plentiful in the area.

I have no pecan. I just bought apple, cherry, mesquite, and some mulberry, I had Hickory already. The apple and mulberry are too green to use. Wish we had pecan around here. What part of the USA does it grow? Dj

Primarily in Georgia I think.

John

You will find pecan in the southeast and south-central US. The grow plenty of pecan here in Arkansas. Also grown in Alabama, Mississippi Louisiana and Tennessee.

I stand corrected Wheelz.

John

Wheelz, you got me to thinking which state does have the highest pecan production. So I searched for it on the web and found the USDA data for 2003. Georgia is 1st, Texas is second, and this is a surprise, New Mexico is third. I never knew NM had any pecan trees. You learn something new every day.

John

They got trees?

LOL Tom! Chuckled out loud! Yeah, we probably all have a lot to learn about what grows where. When we first moved to Arkansas from Michigan (26 years ago) I was told that the state tree of Texas was the power pole Wouldn't recommend Q'ing with that! ...

I cut my own pecan chunks or wafers from limbs that have blown down from storms that we have down here in mobile,AL.

here in huntsville alabama pecan aint hard at all to find most people dont know that they have a gold mind in a couple pecan trees but apple wood is hard to find most oeiple want to keep those apple trees and i dont blame them

Big Orange - If you want some, I'll swap you some homegrown apple wood already seasoned for some pecan. A friend of mine had an apple tree that blew down 3 years ago and he cut it up and gave me lots. I have been using it with my fowl and it cooks wonderfully. Let me know.

Bob

ps.. same offer to anyone with some orange wood.

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Originally posted by Wheelz:
[qb] You will find pecan in the southeast and south-central US. The grow plenty of pecan here in Arkansas. Also grown in Alabama, Mississippi Louisiana and Tennessee. [/qb]

We grow lots of pecan trees in Oklahoma. I have a backyard full of 'em.

Donna

Cadillac,
You beat me to the punch. I was going to reply with the same "trade" offer. anyone want to trade some pecan for sugar maple I will do that. We can trade even up, I will ship you the maple wood cut the way you like, you send me the same amount of pecan. It would take me time to do so as I would get the best maple I can from a buddy up north. I have been thinking about this sugar maple, this is the time when the trees are tapped for sapping to produce the syrup. This should be the best time to harvest some branches as the internal sugar content is the highest right now through the end of March. Anyone know if this is true, that the wood would be best? I won't be around for a week as we are packing to head out at 4am to fly to Fla and board a cruise ship. Lord willing I'll be back!