American Chestnut Seeds and Seedlings
WEBGrowing wild-type American chestnut seedlings helps preserve genetic diversity within the species for future breeding and wild adaptation, and also provides an opportunity to practice planting and maintaining American chestnut trees on your unique site.
How to grow an American chestnut | US Forest Service
WEBFor 5 years, researchers monitored seedling survival, growth and blight development. In both sites, approximately 67 percent of trees survived, and both sites had similar levels of blight occurrence. However, the two-age shelterwood treatment gave seedlings a clear advantage in growth.
Home | The American Chestnut Foundation
WEBThe American Chestnut Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing a disease-resistant American chestnut tree and restoring it to the native range in the eastern United States.
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WEBThe American Chestnut is a large, broad tree that produces an edible chestnut. Large leaves turn yellow and brown in autumn. At least two American Chestnuts planted no more than 200' apart are required for producing chestnuts.
KB's All Natural American Chestnuts – Castanea Dentata
WEBLocated in upstate New York, my American Chestnut orchard is the culmination of my life’s work collecting the finest genes from throughout America and Canada. All trees and nuts are pure American Chestnut (castanea dentata) grown all naturally, completely non-GMO, and never backcrossed with any hybrids.
Growing Chestnuts - The American Chestnut Foundation
WEBA complete guide to growing chestnut trees, by The American Chestnut Foundation. How to grow chestnuts from seed and from seedlings.
American Chestnut - Go Native Trees
WEBWe have collected up to 2000 seeds per year from the two best trees in the grove. We now collect seed from the two best plants (pictured below), so the blight resistance may be improved by as much as a factor of 2.5 billion [(40/4 billion) X (2/50)].
American Chestnut – Experimental Farm Network Seed Store
WEBThese seeds were collected from an isolated pair of blight-free pure American Chestnut (Castanea dentata) trees found in Western Oregon. Since 2005, I have been scouting and analyzing chestnut trees all over Washington and Oregon.
American Chestnut Trees For Sale at Ty Ty Nursery
WEBAmerican Chestnuts usually grow in groups of two, but each pod could contain three or more nuts. The leaves of the American Chestnut are long, serrated, and glossy. The chestnut seedling from the American Chestnut tree is easy to sprout and to grow your own trees from the seed.
WEBStart your seeds in a 2-quart milk or juice carton, with holes punched in the bottom for drainage, works well. Alternatively, a tall (12” deep), narrow pot will suffice. Fill with soilless potting mix (works better than potting soil). A blend of 1/3 each peat, perlite and vermiculite is recommended but
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