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Took this Picture Sunday at 11:45 Am of a Pure American Chestnut Tree with Viable nuts from other American Chestnuts Nearby.This Tree is 10 Years old this Year with no Blight ,I got the nuts 1n 2012 from the ACCF when I was invited to come their and pick them,I have Pure American trees from...

A pure American Chestnut full of Viable Burs in my orchard , I have 2 others nearby with viable burs

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My biggest one is about 35 feet tall and 5" diameter at breast height,I planted the nuts in may 2013.Just today I put 56 viable nuts(passed the float test) from this tree in the refrigerator for Stratification.I need 4 more in my orchard and will keep about 15 nuts to ensure that I get them.

I picked about 20 pure American chestnut burs today,There are at least twice that many left on the trees that I could not get to. About 1/3 look like they have viable nuts in them

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I think it is possible,It definately helps directly on the blight kind of like mudpacks, whether it lasts long I do not know

oaks carry it,Oaks and chestnuts are in the beech family,Blight enters the chestnut tree through cracks or damaged area's of the bark.I spray my Chestnut trees bark with Biota max every spring.Biota max has the right soil microbes to counter the blight,seems to help in my opinion

You are right the blight is all around the eastern forest

Soil microbes kill the blight in the soil,Blight attacks the trunk and branches not leaves ,flowers or fruit,I am pretty sure but not positive.The blight girdles the stem and chokes the Phloem which kills anything above it.The TACF after 8 years will infect an orchard with 2 strains of blight(a...

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Yes I am,Hopefully I have a good year,I also want to (roast some over an open fire)

I have about 50 trees from ACCF seeds that were planted in 2013 4 of them only got the blight last year and 3 of them are actually recovering(will see how they do this spring) the 4th got ambrosia beetle that killed the main stem that I cut down only to have stump sprouts pop up which I cut back...

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I wish I had not planted a bradford pear tree on my property,very invasive species.I had 2 cut one down 2 years ago after it broke in half and still getting suckers coming up,seriously thinking about cutting the other 1 down and having the stump ground and planting an American hardwood there.

I put my chestnuts in damp peat moss in a baggie with holes in it

Estimates of 400 million stump sprouts or 10% of the original 4 Billion American Chestnuts in their native range,possible some of those could develope some blight resistance given time.There are estimated 100+ Blight survivors across the native range of some 200 million acres

American Chestnut tree in Maine 115 feet tall and about 100 years old,there is another one in Maine that is 95 feet tall

If I have a lot of nuts next October I will send you guys some,I think I will out of 45 trees that are going into their 6th growing season this spring,planted in May 2013.

Exactly,I had 3 seeds this year and hope to have dozens next year