I've tried planting American chestnuts from that same tree but so far no luck. It's been producing nuts for as long as I've owned this property which is about 11 1/2 years. There was another tree on the neighbor's property about 100 yards from my tree but it died about 5 years ago.

However, I have planted about 30 Chinese/American hybrid chestnut seedlings that I bought from Native Nurseries (Mossy Oak). So far none of those are big enough yet to produce any fruit.