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Re: [NAFEX] Can I freeze chestnuts to plant for next year
- From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
- To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Can I freeze chestnuts to plant for next year
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:11:57 -0600
I broke down & did a 5 minute soak in a solution of bleach & water.
Just checked on the chestunts the other day & zero sign of any kind of
mold this year. Last year, wanting to be organic, I used a vinegar
soak, but that didn't prevent mold at all.
~mIEKAL
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Kieran &/or Donna
<holycow@frontiernet.net> wrote:
> I have about 10 lbs of chestnuts stratified in my fridge &they are
> getting a mold that has lots of red color in it. I even washed them
> off once &put them back in bags with peat but the mold which is
> extremely sticky to the touch is coming back again. Does anyone know
> if I can freeze these &get similar germination rates of +90%? In the
> five or so years I've been collecting nuts from my trees I've never
> seen mold on the nuts before. Or maybe mold wouldn't be an issue...
>
> Sometimes I have nuts, chestnuts or hazels, that I want to plant or have
> planted shallow enough in pots that I can watch them, or if I have some in
> pots that I dump out from time to time to see if any have germinated. The
> ones that get mold on the outside usually are shot inside. You have enough
> that you can cut into a few to see what's happening. Generally it seems to
> me that the mold attacks nuts that are already dead, though I suppose it
> could go the other way. Did you by any chance either have a very rainy
> fall, or did you have a sharp freeze when the nuts were still falling?
> Donna
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Re: [NAFEX] Can I freeze chestnuts to plant for next year,
Kieran &/or Donna, 01/10/2011
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Re: [NAFEX] Can I freeze chestnuts to plant for next year,
mIEKAL aND, 01/10/2011
- Re: [NAFEX] Can I freeze chestnuts to plant for next year, Stephen Sadler, 01/10/2011
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Re: [NAFEX] Can I freeze chestnuts to plant for next year,
mIEKAL aND, 01/10/2011
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