All pine trees produce nuts that can be eaten. However, some species have much smaller nuts. It's worth exploring species that have larger nuts and saving yourself some trouble with peeling. If you're serious about harvesting your own pine nuts, you should look for some pine trees in early summer.
Pineapples are usually ready to harvest from July to November, depending on where you live. In Sweden, pineapples are available in markets in November.
Pine nuts
ripen in late summer or fall, and this is when you start harvesting pine nuts. First, you'll need pine trees with low branches that contain open, unopened pineapples.First of all, you really have to live in the West to do this. Unless you can find a lost Italian stone pine tree planted somewhere as a gardening tree, oriental pine nuts are too small or have shells that are very difficult to disturb. This condition, called “pine nut mouth” or “pine nut syndrome,” means that simply eating pine nuts makes the other foods you eat taste bitter and metallic. If you have a stone pine tree in your backyard, you can also start harvesting pine nuts from pineapples.
I wouldn't recommend breaking the pine nut shell because you'll probably also break the small nut inside. Open pineapples indicate that the pine nuts are ripe, but you don't want these pineapples when it comes to harvesting pine nuts; they've already released their nuts. They are expensive because of the time required to grow the nuts and the effort to harvest the seeds from their protective shell. I was hoping someone would have a good way to get the nut out of the cone without having to chop it.
These pine trees are native to the United States, although other pine trees with edible pine nuts are native to Europe and Asia, such as the European stone pine and the Asian Korean pine. You may be familiar with pine nuts, the delicious little teardrop-shaped nut often used to make pesto and to cook other dishes. This will cause the remaining pine nuts (those that haven't eaten the bugs yet) to fall off the pineapples and fall onto the canvas. If you've ever bought pine nuts at the store, you're probably consuming imported Chinese products that are usually of dubious origin.
Under no circumstances can you wait until October to pick up your nuts, or you run the risk that the IRP will take them all away. People who are allergic to nuts often wonder if they can consume sunflowers, pine nuts, poppy, pumpkin, sesame seeds, chufa, etc. We know that pine nuts are among the most expensive nuts on the market and are not easy to work with in the long term.
