[NAFEX] Is fall planting chesnut seed possible?

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Wed Oct 18 14:18:31 EDT 2006


The chesnuts   I have are:
tree form - "Luvall's Monster" that Phil Rutter after viewing the original 
tree in Illinois, thought to be of european extraction
chinese form:   "Qing" and "Lindstrom 67" that I purchased at the last NNGA 
convention I was able to attend several years ago, and the 3rd bearing one is a 
seedling from a tree planted in the 1940's by a Massachusetts NNGA member.    
 All these 4 trees described above bore this year, the Luvall's i grafted 
around 1997, and has been bearing annually for about 4 years, the other 4 are 
bearing this year for the first time each.
I'll be planting some seeds today under hardware cloth with seeds of other 
things like an unidentified crabapple.    If they grow, great, otherwise, at 
least the seed won't be moldering in the refrigerator.   Also this afternoon I'll 
be making a layered frozen cake from eleagnus fruit - picked 2 gallons fruit 
yesterday afternoon.   
Charlie Paradise, Massachusetts
In a message dated 10/18/06 11:18:44 AM, Spears at LMC.edu writes:


> 
> 
>             Yes, in fact The American Chestnut Foundation recommends seed 
> planting directly in the soil, as opposed to container growing.  There’s a PDF 
> file accessible at the link http://chestnut.cas.psu.edu/Breeding.html
>  called “Growing American Chestnuts” that describes a good procedure for 
> direct planting (the section is called “The Meadowview Method”).
>              This has been a good year for American (sprouts) and planted 
> trees here in western NC – a heavy nut year.  Are yours Chinese?
>   
> 

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