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Bill Jones wrote:

> I guess you said that chestnut cuttings grow fine. 

No, I didn't say that, I don't think.  I have read conflicting things 
about rooting cuttings, but most everything I've read talks about how it 
doesn't easily make roots.

 Some species of
> plants cannot be started easily from cuttings, so grafting is a 
> preferred way to obtain a clone of the original, but that's not the only 
> reason. 

I think grafting is the preferred way with chestnuts.


> Anyway, the cuttings will fruit exactly like the "parent" tree (since 
> they're clones), if they take, and will probably do it much faster than 
> a seedling, but their root systems tend to be poorer than those of 
> seedlings.

Right

Another thing I am confused about....
Chestnuts are self-sterile-they can't pollinate themselves or a clone of 
themselves...that being true, then how did I egg up with nuts on my 
tree?  What pollinated the tree?


Bev


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