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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] sterile chestnuts
  • Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 17:26:34 -0700

Given the graft-incompatibility problems of chestnuts, this is unlikely. It
would be more practical if it could be grown from cuttings or by tissue
culture.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, more, plus word on my grape book at
http://www.hevanet.com/lonrom

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>From: Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>
>To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [nafex] sterile chestnuts
>Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2001, 4:45 PM
>

>Obviously useless as a nut-tree, but I wonder if someone in the nursery
>business might be interested in grafting it as a less allergenic
>chestnut. (Assuming it has an attractive growth habit.) I understand
>that chestnuts are a fairly allergenic tree, and there is growing
>interest in "safer" shade trees. All female trees don't shed pollen,
>but they can be very messy.
>
>Ginda



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