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  • From: "Hector Black" <hblack1925@fastmail.fm>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Trying to identify some chestnuts
  • Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:40:30 -0500

Hi Miekal, Seems to me it's the other way around. American chestnuts are smaller than Chinese. I'm not sure that's always true. I think it may also have to do with the fertility of the soil. I bought the largest chestnuts I had ever seen, from Korea, and planted them, but the seedlings nuts were just the size of my other chestnuts which were chinese. Of course that could be genetics too, they were seedlings and not grafts. My "Chinese" chestnuts are all seedlings from an orchard that had both Japanese and Chinese chestnuts in it. Don't know if they cross pollinate. Hector Black, zone 6 middle tn
----- Original Message ----- From: "mIEKAL aND" <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 9:34 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] Trying to identify some chestnuts


A friend of mine gave me a bag of chestnuts that his friend grew in SW
Wisconsin. All of the nuts were a third larger than what I grow
(Layeroka & Skioka). The only thing the person knows about the
pedigree is that he got them from Millers Nurseries in upstate NY 20
years ago. A quick search of their current catalogue only shows
Chinese Chestnuts listed. Is it possible that a Chinese Chestnut
could produce nuts that weigh between 16-22 grams? I was always under
the impression the Chinese Chestnuts are smaller than the American
hybrids.... The couple Chinese trees that I have going produce nuts
so small they aren't worth the effort to collect.

~mIEKAL
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