black walnut help please

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3. Thanks.

That's where I was hoping for someone with some experience, because some websites say to let them sit in the husks til the husks get soft, others say to cut them out right away.

I have read not to pull them off the tree because you can damage the tree, so these were all ones picked from the ground, they just started dropping last week.

I wore gloves that were knit, but with the palms and fingers dipped in the thick rubbery goop. Somehow that shit got inside and indeed, several of my fingers are very dark brown now. Very elegant looking.