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["Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>]

Bruce
 You mean at your place?
Here in Flint I had some hardy pecans, NO chestnuts, all blank. Pears I had 
plenty on one tree. Pawpaws I had about a dozen, Filberts done all right. 
Not only about dozen Carpathians. Corwin Davis's now run by his son-in-law 
this morning maybe 5 gallon bucket of pawpaws and about 94 pounds of 
chestnuts both of which are very few from there. nothing on his other trees 
to speak of. Roger Miller of Eaton Rapids which always does well told me he 
did not have anything to sell of apples, pears, nuts etc.

Gordon C. Nofs
Flint, MI.

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Bruce Hansen" <brucehansen@acd.net>
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Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Chestnut questions
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:25:25 -0400

Gordon:

While the crop was not a record one, all trees produced nuts

Bruce
Mid. MI

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[mailto:nafex-admin@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Gordon Nofs
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 11:20 AM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Chestnut questions


Lon
  I have been talking to chestnut producers in Michigan. Most are looking
for other growers to purchase chestnuts from this year to satisfy their
regular customers. The late freeze we had here didn't look like it affected
the chestnuts, but it killed something either in the male or female. My few
trees have plenty of burrs, but all blanks. I had even done some hand
pollination to try to ensure a few. We did not have any rain here to do as
you suggest. The only place in Michigan where it was not effected was
northern Michigan where they are 2 to 3 weeks later than the lower. They are
now very busy picking chestnuts and lots I hear.
   Well there's next year, I hope.

Gordon C. Nofs
Flint, MI.

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
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Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Chestnut questions
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:25:52 -0700

Depending on where you are, this was not a good year for chestnuts.  I have
two proven bearing chestnuts that had almost all blank husks this year due
to a couple of days of heavy rain right at the height of bloom - washed
almost all the pollen away.  I'm in Oregon, 20 miles south of Portland.
-Lon Rombough

From: "Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>
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Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:51:12 -0700
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Chestnut questions


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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[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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