RE: Pecan Shells

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• To: lindsey
• Subject: RE: Pecan Shells
• From: "* B* <j*@msn.com>
• Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 09:12:02 -0500

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From: 	aroid-l@mobot.org on behalf of Don Burns
Sent: 	Monday, May 19, 1997 8:31 PM
To: 	Julius Boos
Subject: 	Re: Pecan Shells

Dewey,

Regarding the use of pecan shells as a planting medium (or one of several 
ingredients), I would be cautious with this until I understood the 
chemical contents of the shells.  For some reason I am thinking that 
pecan shells contain tannin.  While I don't know this for certain, I'll 
bet one of the chemists on the list could tell us about.

By the way, pecan shells are use in the abrasive industry as a pressure 
blasting  abrasive, and possibly in other ways. And the stuff is not 
cheap.

Don

Don Burns   Plantation, FL USA   Zone 10b

It`s also used in the oil drilling industry in a ground up form as an additive 
to drilling mud as a torque reducer while drilling in tight or high angle 
hole.   Not cheap!
                 Julius Boos,    W.P.B., FL.,   U.S.A.
                                                   

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