I am a Michigan resident and I am looking into getting started planting chestnut trees. Is there somewhere local that I can visit to buy the nuts when they fall to get started with the germination process. Any advice would be appreciated.
I live in Southwest Michigan and have a good friend with 9 and a half acres that would love to grow chestnut trees on his property. I sure would like to lay my hands on some of the saplings or at least some of the nuts to try and grow our own!
From what I’ve read chestnuts out west are good cause the blight doesn’t survive well there. And back East they’re breeding with chinese trees and doing GMO trees to get blight free. But there’s a group that’s probably the most natural as they’re breeding surviving trees with each other to promote some resistance since not all died from the disease.
The GMO tree works but needs gov. approval. Backcross and other hybrid methods work but take much longer to create, and also deliver varied results due to the gene pool. The GMO is our best shot imo, and hopefully we'll be able to plant it by 2023.
Chinese Chestnuts didn't destroy American cultivares a fungus did. But yeah, they probably are Chinese American hybrids. They're working on a gmo pure American strain and a Chinese/American hybrid thats only 1/16th Chinese but has the blight resistance. The pure American Chestnut is effectively gone.
@@yunpigsackki_zuger yes I know. I was trying to point out that Mike saying that the trees themselves didn't kill the American ones was stupid because they were the hosts of the blight
How do I get seed nuts for American Chestnuts?
can I buy them directly from he grower? the ones in the grocery store are always bad half are moldy inside
I am a Michigan resident and I am looking into getting started planting chestnut trees. Is there somewhere local that I can visit to buy the nuts when they fall to get started with the germination process. Any advice would be appreciated.
Shannon Girdham wher I can Get chestnut in Michigan
@@zhangmia1696 where are you located? LaFever chesnuts does have a pick your own program:lafeverchestnuts.webstarts.com/
JUNG seed catalogue sells bareroot trees 2 for $59 . I just purchased 4 last week but havent received them yet
What spacing are you using?
How mutch metrs have tree from tree
I live in Southwest Michigan and have a good friend with 9 and a half acres that would love to grow chestnut trees on his property. I sure would like to lay my hands on some of the saplings or at least some of the nuts to try and grow our own!
Are you interested in buying i have over 700 1year trees in central mi
@@AlanDaymon Thank you, but no, I have 24 trees going now that I started a year ago. They are doing good so far. 😊
Where did you come by your saplings? I would love to grow a few trees around my place!
Where is address
Have you solved the disease problem that destroyed the American Chestnut trees?
From what I’ve read chestnuts out west are good cause the blight doesn’t survive well there. And back East they’re breeding with chinese trees and doing GMO trees to get blight free. But there’s a group that’s probably the most natural as they’re breeding surviving trees with each other to promote some resistance since not all died from the disease.
The GMO tree works but needs gov. approval. Backcross and other hybrid methods work but take much longer to create, and also deliver varied results due to the gene pool. The GMO is our best shot imo, and hopefully we'll be able to plant it by 2023.
Are these chinese chestnut trees? Are you propagating a crop from the same cultivar that destroyed the American Chestnut tree?
Chinese Chestnuts didn't destroy American cultivares a fungus did. But yeah, they probably are Chinese American hybrids. They're working on a gmo pure American strain and a Chinese/American hybrid thats only 1/16th Chinese but has the blight resistance. The pure American Chestnut is effectively gone.
@@mikepowell8611 Where do you think the fungus came from?
Chestnut blight is not going away the damage is already done hundreds of years ago so the only way to get chestnuts is a chinese tree or hybrid.
@@diekatzefliegt They imported Japanese chestnut trees to get bigger chestnuts. That's when Chestnut Blight came into being
@@yunpigsackki_zuger yes I know. I was trying to point out that Mike saying that the trees themselves didn't kill the American ones was stupid because they were the hosts of the blight
I heard the chestnuts are good for high cholesterol
If your cholesterol is high use a chestnuts
I love chestnut and it's very healthy
Is possible to harvest Chestnut in my country Indonesia?,
Yes Brazil does. These cultivars they use are taisho-wase, okuni, tamatsukuri, ibuki, isumo’, kinshu’, moriwase’, okuni’,
American chestnuts grow in Minnesora
Great Video Thak you!