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growing Dunstan Chestnut trees
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<blockquote data-quote="dg7080" data-source="post: 5359500" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>I've been growing Dunstans for several years now. I typically stratify around 50 nuts over the winter and then move them to pots when they sprout in the early spring. I have and do direct sow a few nuts every year but have not tracked the % that sprout vs the potted. I would guess that I have about a 95% success rate with the potted nuts and about a 40 - 50% success rate with the direct seeding. I might add that I did direct seed about a dozen on a garden row a few years ago and those came up 100%. This year I've got about potted 20 saplings that I am going to sell. The rest will have new homes around the farm.</p><p>I also have gotten into growing pure American Chestnuts I got from the American Chestnut Foundation. They have an ongoing effort to one day hopefully restore this once great tree to our forests. They seem to sprout just as good as the Dunstan's but definitely grow at a little slower rate, at least in the soils I use. </p><p>My 2 cents, aint worth much...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dg7080, post: 5359500, member: 3"] I've been growing Dunstans for several years now. I typically stratify around 50 nuts over the winter and then move them to pots when they sprout in the early spring. I have and do direct sow a few nuts every year but have not tracked the % that sprout vs the potted. I would guess that I have about a 95% success rate with the potted nuts and about a 40 - 50% success rate with the direct seeding. I might add that I did direct seed about a dozen on a garden row a few years ago and those came up 100%. This year I've got about potted 20 saplings that I am going to sell. The rest will have new homes around the farm. I also have gotten into growing pure American Chestnuts I got from the American Chestnut Foundation. They have an ongoing effort to one day hopefully restore this once great tree to our forests. They seem to sprout just as good as the Dunstan's but definitely grow at a little slower rate, at least in the soils I use. My 2 cents, aint worth much... [/QUOTE]
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