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On Dec 4, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Melissa Kacalanos wrote:

Thanks, but I've also been googling this, and I'm wondering about the wisdom of this scheme. Apparently, the most popular chestnut variety is 'Colossal' which, like many interspecific hybrids, is pollen-sterile. If that's what my neighbor's tree is, then they'd finally get nuts, but I wouldn't. 

Maybe you could strike a deal with them, for a percentage of the nuts if they use them? It's possible they don't even want them.

(Presumably it's not a horse chestnut . . . )

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly

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