Yes we’re probably still a couple of weeks out on the late dropping chestnuts. You can give direct seeding a try but I’ve not had much luck with it. Not sure what I’m doing wrong. I even bought one of those Squirrel nut planters
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In theory this thing should work but I planted over 300 sawtooth acorns last year and had exactly one tree come up. I also planted many chestnuts with it and none of them came up. All of the chestnuts had been properly stratified so that wasn’t it. Either they just didn’t come up or they got found. If you have a way to protect them then I don’t see why direct seeding wouldn’t work as long as you live where it gets cold enough. Down here in Texas we don’t get enough cold weather required for proper stratification.
Matt
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