I have found that allowing the tree to grow with multiple trunks and lower limbs, allows the tree to survive longer, without being killed by the beetles. Many of my single trunk trees died by way of beetles. When they came back from the stump, I just let them grow with many trunks. Not one of my trees with 3 or more trunks, has died completely, only partially. Leaving a circle of tall grass around the tree also seems to help. More predators of the beetles will live in that tall grass.
i didn't read book; but I loooove black locust; the flowers, it regrows, and it makes the best fence posts or firewood. All my pastures fenced from black locust posts.
Quite a lot of different chestnut cultivars there. I’m stratifying some pure American seeds now, in hopes of having 2-3 growing in my backyard. It’s nice to see yours doing well after more than 10 years in spite of the blight.
I am in Oregon, I have a pair of very old Chestnut near me. The larger one is 21 feet in diameter. I collected a bunch of nuts a few weeks ago, you want any?
That's an awesome project! I look forward to seeing a longer term assessment of the different varieties. I'm excited at the prospect of seeing chestnut trees make a comeback. I'm experimenting with an acre of the American/Chinese hybrid called "Dunstan". My only complaint is that I didn't plant them 10 years ago!
Thanks for the video. Each of us have our own priorities of what we would do if we were fortunate to get hold of a piece of land, and not fully understanding what your motivations are it is unfair for me to speculate. I would like to offer some ideas for consideration though, or for others who maybe looking to maximise benefit from their woodland plantings. I personally would probably have planted for a greater or multiple benefit return, if indeed the woodland is part of your ecosystem and therefore a more intense management system could be appropriate. Closer spacing at planting, say 3m, maybe even closer for taller, straighter standards, with less prominent branching, selecting the most desirable trees to grow on and coppicing a proportion around the tree for fencing materials on an appropriate rotation for poles once the trees are well established and showing good form, but before they become too vulnerable to wind throw in more exposed locations, (in the UK the NHS managed many hectares of chestnut coppice for walking sticks), fuel wood and nuts once they get back to an appropriate size. Wide spacing is great for parkland type trees and nuts but they will soon grow out of reach for harvesting unless you are harvesting the fallers. Grazing animals underneath in a controlled fashion as part of a Silvo pastoral system would keep your grass down to a manageable level and return nutrients to the soil, the trees adding much needed shade for the grazers in the heat of the summer. Mixed planting will give you a greater diversity of yield so if you have a year that is poor for chestnuts you may still get a yield from something else. Also more species diversity could help to mitigate a pest problem such as your ambrosia beetle. I’ve gotta say that I’m a little jealous, in a nice way though👍
Love it. I gathered two huge shopping bags of chestnut seeds today, for the first time in my life. Going to plant them into a forest I'm designing. Thanks for the inspiration!
Check out his videos on small air prune boxes. This is a great way to get them started. Just protect them from mice and squirrels or you will lose most of them. I will be planting more this year as well.
Thanks for sharing. Have you ever heard of or worked with Dunstan Chestnuts? Apparently they are American hybrids bred for blight resistance, large and delicious nuts.
We have a trial row of Chinese, pure American, and hybrid chestnut trees at the Lake Erie Grape Research Center where I'm working as an undergrad studying plant pathology. Surprisingly, the Chinese varieties look the worst and are suffering from blight. Two of the hybrids look good, but some of them also are falling victim to the blight. What confuses me the most is that a few of the American Chestnuts look unaffected by the blight and are growing quite tall. I'm guessing that the hybrids are going to be the only ones to maintain a single trunk over time. Is the Hungarian variety you're growing called 'Nyriségi'? I'm looking to plant a test plot of this variety here and would like to get more people to recognize it as a biomass and timber crop in the US.
Lovely orchard, lots of useful info. Really pretty trees. I've planted 2x Marigoule ((Castanea sativa x crenata) - hopefully it is hardy enough to handle our winters here in Norway. In your opinion, what are the best cold hardy cultivars? Want to plant some more 🙂
It will probably survive but the problem will be getting the fruit to ripen. Look for cultivars that come from mountainous regions, here in France there are a lot of chestnuts grown in the pyrenees that should definitely be hardy enough for Norway, just a matter of if they will ripen.
Wow they grow fast! I’m a bit confused - is a buckeye a chestnut? Here in Philadelphia we have some beautiful blooming mature trees that I believe are Buckeyes. They have serrated leaves if that’s important.
It's not the number of limbs or trunks, it's the rubbing that causes damage to limbs. In dormant time, I cut or remove the limb growing inward or straight upward.
Hi Akiva, was wondering how far apart did you plant your chestnuts? I got about 2 acres of growing space and want to know what the minimum spacing you've seen work.
It's my understanding that if you put native soil over the infected spot that it will kill the blight. I hear your supposed to wrap the soil to the tree with plastic and remove it a year later. They claim that a fungus in the soil kills the blight.
I have found that allowing the tree to grow with multiple trunks and lower limbs, allows the tree to survive longer, without being killed by the beetles. Many of my single trunk trees died by way of beetles. When they came back from the stump, I just let them grow with many trunks. Not one of my trees with 3 or more trunks, has died completely, only partially. Leaving a circle of tall grass around the tree also seems to help. More predators of the beetles will live in that tall grass.
Glad to see you posting more regularly. Really enjoyed your book and helped changed my perspective on black locust.
i didn't read book; but I loooove black locust; the flowers, it regrows, and it makes the best fence posts or firewood. All my pastures fenced from black locust posts.
Thank you for the tour. Very cool!
Quite a lot of different chestnut cultivars there. I’m stratifying some pure American seeds now, in hopes of having 2-3 growing in my backyard. It’s nice to see yours doing well after more than 10 years in spite of the blight.
They should be fine out west, but the east coast has lots of blight and they likely will die young.
I am in Oregon, I have a pair of very old Chestnut near me. The larger one is 21 feet in diameter. I collected a bunch of nuts a few weeks ago, you want any?
@@insolentstickleback3266 I would love for you to send me some. Everywhere I’m looking is sold out for the season. Happy to pay for postage.
fantastic looking field, i gotta learn more about that Turkey federation one you mentioned!
That's an awesome project! I look forward to seeing a longer term assessment of the different varieties. I'm excited at the prospect of seeing chestnut trees make a comeback. I'm experimenting with an acre of the American/Chinese hybrid called "Dunstan". My only complaint is that I didn't plant them 10 years ago!
Thanks for the video. Each of us have our own priorities of what we would do if we were fortunate to get hold of a piece of land, and not fully understanding what your motivations are it is unfair for me to speculate. I would like to offer some ideas for consideration though, or for others who maybe looking to maximise benefit from their woodland plantings. I personally would probably have planted for a greater or multiple benefit return, if indeed the woodland is part of your ecosystem and therefore a more intense management system could be appropriate. Closer spacing at planting, say 3m, maybe even closer for taller, straighter standards, with less prominent branching, selecting the most desirable trees to grow on and coppicing a proportion around the tree for fencing materials on an appropriate rotation for poles once the trees are well established and showing good form, but before they become too vulnerable to wind throw in more exposed locations, (in the UK the NHS managed many hectares of chestnut coppice for walking sticks), fuel wood and nuts once they get back to an appropriate size. Wide spacing is great for parkland type trees and nuts but they will soon grow out of reach for harvesting unless you are harvesting the fallers. Grazing animals underneath in a controlled fashion as part of a Silvo pastoral system would keep your grass down to a manageable level and return nutrients to the soil, the trees adding much needed shade for the grazers in the heat of the summer. Mixed planting will give you a greater diversity of yield so if you have a year that is poor for chestnuts you may still get a yield from something else. Also more species diversity could help to mitigate a pest problem such as your ambrosia beetle. I’ve gotta say that I’m a little jealous, in a nice way though👍
Lots of beautiful chestnut trees.
Love it. I gathered two huge shopping bags of chestnut seeds today, for the first time in my life. Going to plant them into a forest I'm designing. Thanks for the inspiration!
Check out his videos on small air prune boxes. This is a great way to get them started. Just protect them from mice and squirrels or you will lose most of them. I will be planting more this year as well.
Thanks for sharing. Have you ever heard of or worked with Dunstan Chestnuts? Apparently they are American hybrids bred for blight resistance, large and delicious nuts.
Yeah, they're in our generic pool
They're more of a timber tree, and a Whisker barrel wood.
The nuts are hit and miss.
Thank you for sharing. What percentage of the planting from 8 years ago survived? Also, is it possible to propagate chestnut with cuttings?
About 90 percent. No, cuttings won't work
We have a trial row of Chinese, pure American, and hybrid chestnut trees at the Lake Erie Grape Research Center where I'm working as an undergrad studying plant pathology. Surprisingly, the Chinese varieties look the worst and are suffering from blight. Two of the hybrids look good, but some of them also are falling victim to the blight. What confuses me the most is that a few of the American Chestnuts look unaffected by the blight and are growing quite tall. I'm guessing that the hybrids are going to be the only ones to maintain a single trunk over time.
Is the Hungarian variety you're growing called 'Nyriségi'? I'm looking to plant a test plot of this variety here and would like to get more people to recognize it as a biomass and timber crop in the US.
Maybe the remaining american chestnuts have blight resistance?
can you root cuttings like i do with citrus? it would save initial growth time
just started buying them this year playing at 7 live ones that I got seeds coming down my plant the spring . like what you're doing there
It seems like trees interplanted with black locust do better, is that observation as well?
I planted a Timburr chestnut, I believe I got it from you, it’s doing great. Wondering if the nut will taste more American or like a European sweet
I have some trees that died, but new growth is coming from the root. Do I allow them to keep growing? Replace?
I've had the same, a good number will grow back...good luck
@@paulsell2438 Thank you!
Lovely orchard, lots of useful info. Really pretty trees. I've planted 2x Marigoule ((Castanea sativa x crenata) - hopefully it is hardy enough to handle our winters here in Norway. In your opinion, what are the best cold hardy cultivars? Want to plant some more 🙂
It will probably survive but the problem will be getting the fruit to ripen. Look for cultivars that come from mountainous regions, here in France there are a lot of chestnuts grown in the pyrenees that should definitely be hardy enough for Norway, just a matter of if they will ripen.
@@nineallday000 great! I planted Betizac and Marigoule grafted hybrids + some from seed. Climate change will ripen the nuts soon enough.
Check out @johnsangl, he has a video on chestnut cultivars and includes cold hardiness as one of the variables
Wow they grow fast!
I’m a bit confused - is a buckeye a chestnut? Here in Philadelphia we have some beautiful blooming mature trees that I believe are Buckeyes. They have serrated leaves if that’s important.
Buckeyes look like chestnuts but are not edible. The leaves of buckeyes are palmately compound as well, instead of the simple leaves of chestnut.
How did you get the 90% american chestnuts? Is it possible to buy some to plant?
Check out The American Chestnut Society (TACS).. you can get these hybrid seeds with a seed level membership
Ambrosia beetles seem pretty bad. My main problem is mile a minute vine, among other vine type plants. They seem to want to strange any tree I plant.
So relatable.. oriental bittersweet is strangling all our trees where I'm at in New England too
What is the advantage of Black locust over improved Honey locust for silvopasture
Do you have any of the pure American Chestnut trees for sale ?
great video - thanks
Do you ever sale the nuts from American chestnut ?
"This is the Earth."
Do you sell nuts from your hybrid (+90%) American trees for planting?
do you recommend just putting wire around them for deer or should I put them in tubes I have about 25 seeds coming
It's not the number of limbs or trunks, it's the rubbing that causes damage to limbs. In dormant time, I cut or remove the limb growing inward or straight upward.
Where did you get your chestnut and isage orange trees
Wow, I was already subscribed but looks like UA-cam made me re-sub! No clue why.
Nice
Nice!
Hi Akiva, was wondering how far apart did you plant your chestnuts? I got about 2 acres of growing space and want to know what the minimum spacing you've seen work.
20 ft
What state are you planting in
Holy cow! Do you sell seed from these? Are they American?
Our website has information
www.twisted-tree.net
It's my understanding that if you put native soil over the infected spot that it will kill the blight. I hear your supposed to wrap the soil to the tree with plastic and remove it a year later. They claim that a fungus in the soil kills the blight.
Bro were from you which country
In a magnetic world! 😂
From what I hear is that you’re going to be sending a seed to plant to your followers and to those who push the like 👍 button to your videos