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Pinus pinea is the specimen of pine from which most commercial nuts are harvested. Pine cones need about 3 weeks to dry before you can harvest the nuts inside.

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Then it s another 2 3 years before the cones are fully developed and ready to pick.

Can you get pine nuts from any pine tree. Do not stack the pine cones any higher than 2 cones deep while the bag is sideways. The easiest way to get the pine nuts out of the cone is simply to lay the pine cones out and let them dry out on their own. To speed up and ease the process the cones are placed in a burlap bag and left in the sun to dry for 20 days.

By comparison imported pine nuts have their protective shells removed to save on shipping and by the time they reach you after months in trans ocean transit they ve lost almost everything but their name. Then you can tap the pine cones and the seeds will fall out. Dry the pine cones in a burlap bag for 21 days.

Besides their medicinal uses pine needles are just plain tasty. The taste is sweet and subtle. The pine seeds are found in the pine cones and take about 18 months to mature.

Pine nuts come from pinyon pine trees. A simple pine needle salad dressing can turn a green salad into a warming winter meal. Pine nut trees take between 6 8 years to mature fully and then start to produce the cones that the nuts are in.

It will take a few weeks but the pine cones will open up. You get our pine nuts as they come from the tree. They add a peppery winter warmth to douglass fir infused eggnog or pine needle vodka.

Place the cones in a burlap bag or similar container in the sun lying the burlap sack sideways to help the sunlight dry them evenly. These pines are native to the united states although other pines with edible pine nuts are native to europe and asia like the european stone pine and the asian korean pine. The needles of each type of conifer have their own individual tastes and spruce tips are particularly prized for spruce tip beer or just a simple flavorful.

If you don t feel like waiting 3 weeks for your pine cones to open up then you can use heat. Pine nuts are the smallest and the fanciest of all nuts. 100 natural wild.

Since the pine nuts are ready to harvest 10 days or so before the cone begins to open they are very difficult to remove. That s at least 10 years to get anything at all from your pine nut tree. Which you ll need to if you want to actually get the nuts from the tree.

There are several american pine trees that are useful as nut trees any of which can be purchased as 2 or 3 year plants or bigger or may be sown from fresh seed.