Originally Posted by
Oldtimr
My club is involved in the restoration of the American Chestnut program that grafting the American to the Chinese and planting the chestnuts. The nuts that we are getting now are considered to be American Chestnuts. This year over 3,000 third generation chestnuts were recovered from our club grounds and from another property and will be planted Some of the trees from this reintroduction program are 50 feet tall. It has happened in your lifetime.
That's interesting. I'm not familiar with the grafting process. As I understand it, the US Forest Service experimented with the technic in the 1950s without much success.