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  • From: Sam Franc <franc@oregonfast.net>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Chestnut questions
  • Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 09:57:23 -0700

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

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-admin@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-admin@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of jeff
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 7:41 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] Chestnut questions


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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