At least 20% of my early batch of ~100 nuts started to sprout with no chill at all.. then the squirrels got into the pots and went crazy so I have very few of those left. Wanted to just leave them in pots to stratify outside during winter, but am being forced to bring the remaining ones inside somewhat..
Second and third batch I have in soil in totes with lids in a garage.. I think there are more duds in this batch because I may have picked them too late (their viability seems to diminish quickly in the sun, there is a pretty short period between ripe nut drop and nut death)
So basically from what I have seen from this year is, a decent percentage of pecan seedlings don’t really need stratification at all..
Also I am starting a bunch of seedlings just to get a good amount of pecans going. I have several grafted saplings but getting 100+ going is just too expensive, and I can always graft to seedling rootstocks if they are inferior