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[Sam Franc <franc@oregonfast.net>]

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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> Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 7:41 PM
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> Subject: [NAFEX] Chestnut questions
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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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