Well, learned something new about Ozark Chinquapins....

[letemgrow]

They can have 3 nuts per bur (8:37)!! DNA tested and also found Ozark Chinquapins in VA!! (10:15)

 

[Brushpile]

Interesting that Ozark Chinkapins are in Alabama and Virginia. I thought the Ozark Chinkapin Foundation was a one man operation?

 

[letemgrow]

They have a few emails setup on their Facebook page so that's a positive.

I'd like to volunteer and help them plant/maintain down there sometime as it would be a worthwhile experience....

 

[shedder]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYLWMTTEAeTvZFQzqlT886g/videos?sort=dd&shelf_id=1&view=0

More cool info here!

 

[shedder]

http://www.ozarkchinquapin.com/dna.html

The big take away for me is that OzC is genetically distinct.
It is also higher on the nutrition scale.
OzC would seem to have big potential especially since in produces fast in poor soil.
The more they find out the more interesting it gets.

 

[shedder]

http://www.ct.gov/caes/lib/caes/pdio/documents/presentations/ozark_chinquapins__sla.pdf

more info

Surprised to see them growing in CT plus they are more resistant to blight and gall wasp than I thought.

Too bad, nuts are so scarce. I would like to try them.

 

[letemgrow]

http://www.ozarkchinquapin.com/dna.html

The big take away for me is that OzC is genetically distinct.
It is also higher on the nutrition scale.
OzC would seem to have big potential especially since in produces fast in poor soil.
The more they find out the more interesting it gets.

Definitely a good one to plant more of!!! I heard there is one at Powell gardens here in the KC area.


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[letemgrow]

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[Fish]

Sweet! I love tree videos. None of those planted on my propeety, but my Midwest sawtooths are weighed down.

 

[letemgrow]

Just received a notification that they r collecting seeds now!!!!


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[shedder]

Over at
http://lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1609&L=TACF-GROWERS&X=AE2D79614499282827&Y=@hotmail.com
this was said.


On Sep 15, 2016, at 9:23 PM, Lucas Machias wrote:

http://www.ct.gov/caes/lib/caes/pdio/documents/presentations/ozark_chinquapins__sla.pdf

I saw this and see OzC can grow in the north. How well does it do there?

Is it reproductively isolated or promiscuous with other Castanea, like AmC?

LM

I have several C. pumila that i got from Empire Chestnut in Ohio when the TACF annual meeting was there in 2000. There has never been any winter die-back, and they have been fruiting heavily since age ~2 or 3. I am in zone 5B, 2 miles from Atlantic Ocean. I know of no other chinquapins growing in ME, other than a very few that I have given away, also in 5B. I have aways assumed that their range is excluded from new england by their fall germination rather than their cold hardiness.

Eric Evans
Breeding Coordinator
Maine Chapter, The American Chestnut Foundation
207-236-9635 207-706-6913 - cell
www.me-acf.org www.acf.org


So that means C. pumila and OzC likely can be expanded to northern sites.

 

[shedder]

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYLWMTTEAeTvZFQzqlT886g

FYI New videos from the 2016 conference were just put on youtube.

 

[DLH]

I just sent a letter to a man in MO to get scions from some ozark chinkapins. He's told me they can be grafted to Chinese chestnuts. I'm gonna try that this spring and thinking about burying the graft union to avoid incompatibility issues with some of them.

 

[ncstewart]

I just sent a letter to a man in MO to get scions from some ozark chinkapins. He's told me they can be grafted to Chinese chestnuts. I'm gonna try that this spring and thinking about burying the graft union to avoid incompatibility issues with some of them.

I tried to t-bud some ozarks to Chinese chestnut as I was told that would work but pretty sure they all failed. That being said I'm super new to grafting.
I am planning on trying some other grafts this spring as well. Another thing I'm wanting to try is grafting the ozarks to a Chinese chinquapin and see if that works better maybe.


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[DLH]

What about grafting to allehany chinkapin?

 

[Champdog21]

Any way to find out who or where the tree in Tuscaloosa county-Alabama is. I live in that county and would be neat to see it

 

[mattpatt]

I can tell you from experience OCs don't respond well to root pruning containers and hot sun. Been there and done that...

 

[shedder]

FYI OZC does graft to CC and well.

http://www.deerhunterforum.com/index.php?threads/the-brushpile.25/page-58#post-49296

http://npj.uwpress.org/content/16/2/117.refs

"Funny enough, I found that paper last night before seeing your post. It was buried deep in a google search. I dug it up and skimmed it just now. A good paper. I was surprised that they showed OZC was easy to graft. That is a big plus. I had heard different."

 

[DLH]

My attempts were failures this year to allehany chinkapin. I'm wanting to try t budding next I think I prefer planting in spring and summer grafting instead of trying to do it all at once.

 

[Neahawg]

I like to try and grow a few anyone now to get seed?