I don't know about chestnuts, but in general it sure does. That's
why I was crowing when my little English walnut seedling had 8 whole
nuts this year. I guess that's the reason for doing grafting (for
trees whose cuttings won't sprout directly), so that the top part is
genetically identical to a known cultivar that bears lots of nuts.
If your original tree was not a graft (or cutting -- harder to tell),
then chances are that the new seedlings will perform similarly well.
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