Chestnut seedlings growing
01-15-2014, 07:59 AM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Mr. Longbeard,
Are they American Chesnut or a Hybrid? I think the true strain of American Chesnut will succumb to the blight about the time that it reaches the nut bearing state which doesn't take long.
BPS
Are they American Chesnut or a Hybrid? I think the true strain of American Chesnut will succumb to the blight about the time that it reaches the nut bearing state which doesn't take long.
BPS
01-16-2014, 01:57 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
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a state forester told me awhile back that he had just measured a wild chestnut which sprouted up from an old stump that was 22" in diameter, biologists hope that the wild chestnut is on its own evolveing into being blight resistant.
RR
01-20-2014, 05:13 AM
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To be honest... I don't know if there american or not... I have a couple trees down from my house and I harvested the nuts last sept... The trees are nice size prob 18-20" in diameter and 30 feet tall... So who knows.... I don't care what kind it is as long as they grow and produce nuts!!!
01-23-2014, 11:01 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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yup, the blight is still here, the roots of the old chestnuts are still alive, they sprout up get about 4-6" in diameter and get the blight and die, the only reason blight hasn't killed the roots is there is a competeing organism in the ground which kills the blight so it can only work above ground.
a state forester told me awhile back that he had just measured a wild chestnut which sprouted up from an old stump that was 22" in diameter, biologists hope that the wild chestnut is on its own evolveing into being blight resistant.
RR
a state forester told me awhile back that he had just measured a wild chestnut which sprouted up from an old stump that was 22" in diameter, biologists hope that the wild chestnut is on its own evolveing into being blight resistant.
RR
My dad had our woods logged back about '75 when I was a senior in high school. Sometime later, around '82, I was bow hunting and I saw a squirrel pass under my stand with something fuzzy looking in his mouth. I watched him go back to where he got it from and climbed down to investigate. I found several Chestnut pods and took them to my Mom's uncle who was in his seventies at that time. He said he was sure they were American Chestnuts and described the tree and leaves for me. I went back and found several trees in the 8" or so diameter but discovered that they had already succumbed to the blight as the lower limbs were already dying off. They must have sprouted from the original roots living underground when the canopy was opened up.
BPS
01-23-2014, 11:34 AM
#9
Spike
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Middleburg
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One way to go so that you know what you have and what to expect along with cutting several years off your growing time would be to buy a few trees. My family used to be in the tree farm business and one of the other farms around us specialized in chestnuts, so I know their product and would recommend them. Take a look at Chestnut Hill Tree Farms, they raise Dunstan Chestnuts and I believe you can pick up trees for the 10 buck each price range.
01-23-2014, 04:39 PM
#10
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Eastern wv
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RR,
My dad had our woods logged back about '75 when I was a senior in high school. Sometime later, around '82, I was bow hunting and I saw a squirrel pass under my stand with something fuzzy looking in his mouth. I watched him go back to where he got it from and climbed down to investigate. I found several Chestnut pods and took them to my Mom's uncle who was in his seventies at that time. He said he was sure they were American Chestnuts and described the tree and leaves for me. I went back and found several trees in the 8" or so diameter but discovered that they had already succumbed to the blight as the lower limbs were already dying off. They must have sprouted from the original roots living underground when the canopy was opened up.
BPS
My dad had our woods logged back about '75 when I was a senior in high school. Sometime later, around '82, I was bow hunting and I saw a squirrel pass under my stand with something fuzzy looking in his mouth. I watched him go back to where he got it from and climbed down to investigate. I found several Chestnut pods and took them to my Mom's uncle who was in his seventies at that time. He said he was sure they were American Chestnuts and described the tree and leaves for me. I went back and found several trees in the 8" or so diameter but discovered that they had already succumbed to the blight as the lower limbs were already dying off. They must have sprouted from the original roots living underground when the canopy was opened up.
BPS
RR