| | Nuts of cultivar Candy are among the first to be observed shuck splitting in early-to-mid September. |
| | Another picture of shuck split in cultivar Pawnee. Pawnee is one of the earliest maturing commercial pecan cultivars and can often be harvested in mid-to-late September. |
| | | Shuck splitting is also observed on nuts of the cultivar Pawnee. |
| | Once the shucks split, they will begin to dry up and turn brown, shrinking away from the nut. Soon after, the nuts will fall from the shucks. |
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