[NAFEX] Chestnut questions
Sam Franc
franc at oregonfast.net
Thu Oct 24 12:57:23 EDT 2002
I have 2 12 year old Chestnuts and neither has ever produced any thing.
Their parent produced nuts at 5 years of age.
What is the difference here.
These are in oregon.
The parent was in California
Sam
Mark Lee wrote:
>I have two chestnut trees that are 15 years old that are just now producing
>husks. They have never produced any meat. One of them came from a nursery.
>The other came from a local stand that was loaded with filled chestnuts. I
>have been observing chestnut trees this year around Seattle, and all of the
>trees are producing blanks in abundance. This is the first time I have been
>paying attention to these trees, so I don't know what is normal, but I think
>the low yield is weather related.
>-Mark Lee, Seattle
>
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>
>Greetings,
>For the last 8 years i've been watching a mixture of
>chestnut trees struggle with various problems. They
>are now beginning to produce nuts. Unfortunately,
>each nut is all husk and no meat. This is occurring
>in European, hybrid, and American chestnuts.
>
>Is this normal in young trees?
>
>I've read that the old chestnut orchards in Europe
>were heavily top worked (grafted) to produce a
>productive orchard. I assume this is an option if
>these trees continue to produce blanks. Does
>anyone have experience in top working chestnuts?
>
>I'm assuming that chestnuts are difficult to graft. We
>have had most of our purchased chestnuts fail at the
>graft and that has been a big disappointment. These
>remaining trees are mostly seedlings and they are
>looking stronger each year.
>
>jeff
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