I'm in a sticky situation

[Native Hunter]

Bumper crop this year despite the Jap Beetles being really hard on the chestnuts. Nearly every tree is loaded, and by the bur size I think we won't have to worry about pollination.

 

[Fish]

Hey Native, are your trees big enough that you will feed some deer with these things? Id love to hear how they respond to them. Japs are destroying my young chestnuts.

 

[Native Hunter]

Hey Native, are your trees big enough that you will feed some deer with these things? Id love to hear how they respond to them. Japs are destroying my young chestnuts.

Fish, I have 5 or 6 Chinese trees that are 13 year old and probably 15 more that are a little younger but bearing.. They drop a significant amount of nuts. I should have taken some more pictures today, but will try to remember next time. All of the nuts get eaten. Because of where they are located, its hard for me to put a camera on them. I let it grow up with goldenrods and weeds around them, but I might try to rig a camera this year. This particular tree is in a more open spot where I mow. I did it once, and you would see deer come by and grab a few nuts and then move on. They didn't just stand there for hours.

The Japs hit some of my trees harder than others. They have been hard on both chestnuts and apples, but my pears are not touched.

You might try spraying the young trees until they get bigger. It seems to me that the bigger trees are not hit quite as bad as the small ones,

 

[John Barnes]

Plant some grapes and pumpkins among your orchards. Jap beetles supposedly prefer those to the trees.

 

[Native Hunter]

Plant some grapes and pumpkins among your orchards. Jap beetles supposedly prefer those to the trees.

That's a good idea John. The old decoy trick!

 

[Triple C]

Still waiting on my 1st dunstan to produce a nut. Think it was 2014 when we planted so I gotta be getting close. As for pears...seems I get wiped out every year with late frosts on the Kieffers. No different this year. Prolly no more that 15 pears on somewhere in the neighborhood of 17 trees.

 

[Native Hunter]

Still waiting on my 1st dunstan to produce a nut. Think it was 2014 when we planted so I gotta be getting close. As for pears...seems I get wiped out every year with late frosts on the Kieffers. No different this year. Prolly no more that 15 pears on somewhere in the neighborhood of 17 trees.

TC, I think the Dunstans are slower growing. At least they have been for me.

You should get a break on the frosts at some point and get some good production from those Kieffers. I have some pears in a low spot that were put in spring of 2014 and still waiting on them to bear too. Not worried about them. They are getting good vegetative growth and will eventually bear.

 

[Merle Hawggard]

A bumper crop of chestnuts is the kind of problem to have NH!

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[Native Hunter]

A bumper crop of chestnuts is the kind of problem to have NH!

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I agree Merle. There may even be too many for me to eat and the deer might actually get a few...

 

[Native Hunter]

Here are a few more chestnut tree pics:

 

[lakngolf]

That's a pretty site. You can sing "I had chestnuts when chestnuts wasn't cool"

 

[Merle Hawggard]

That's a pretty site. You can sing "I had chestnuts when chestnuts wasn't cool"

Lak, you've got to be uhhhm......."middle aged" to know that song.
I waiting to see just how Native gets chestnuts in his coke.

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[Native Hunter]

Lak, you've got to be uhhhm......."middle aged" to know that song.
I waiting to see just how Native gets chestnuts in his coke.

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Merle, the only way to do it is in a Route 44 Sonic cup.

Lak is a talented writer. He could write a chestnut song if the urge ever hit him.....

 

[j-bird]

Still waiting on my 1st dunstan to produce a nut. Think it was 2014 when we planted so I gotta be getting close. As for pears...seems I get wiped out every year with late frosts on the Kieffers. No different this year. Prolly no more that 15 pears on somewhere in the neighborhood of 17 trees.

Don't give up on those dunstans. I have my first ones this year and I planted mine in 2014 from a retail store. So you should be real close.

 

[Native Hunter]

This is the third gallon bag of nuts I've picked up under an early dropping tree hanging over my road.

So far I haven't moved out of a 15 foot circle. The tree next to it is loaded as well and hasn't dropped a single nut yet. Good sized nuts this year too. I think having them close to each other helps with pollination.

 

[TreeDaddy]

Steve,

Is there anything you CAN'T grow?

bill

 

[Native Hunter]

Steve,

Is there anything you CAN'T grow?

bill

Bill, yes there is one thing. I'm not good at growing my money....

 

[KDdid]

Native- it's not only chestnuts! I decided that I'd better start picking my hazelnuts this weekend, and a good thing I did. While one cluster was still loaded, the other had been stripped already. Now, off to hang them away from the squirrels.

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[Native Hunter]

Native- it's not only chestnuts! I decided that I'd better start picking my hazelnuts this weekend, and a good thing I did. While one cluster was still loaded, the other had been stripped already. Now, off to hang them away from the squirrels.

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Thanks for reminding me. I forgot to check mine........

I picked up another gallon bag of chestnuts today. That's about all I need this time. The deer get the rest.