Tim Tyler wrote:

Unripe walnuts must be loosened from the branch by shaking or beating
the tree

I've seen considerable discussion about this, and some fruit and nut trees
will indeed bear sooner if you beat their trunk with a stick. Mechanism
uncertain, but the theory is that the tree thinks it's going to die, and
had better reproduce itself first!


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