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Very interesting video about the American chestnut
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<blockquote data-quote="dg7080" data-source="post: 5263087" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>Absolute shame what happen to the American Chestnut. Once a predominant tree in much of the eastern US, especially in Appalachia. There are a handful of survivor trees but they are veryyy few. The tree is really not totally extinct but considered functionally extinct.. you can plant an American sapling, but it will die off in several years as the blight will eventually infect it. For many years, the old dead trees would resprout from the root systems that were still alive, but then die off in a few years as the blight would reinfect the new growth. The blight still resides to this day in our forests even with the Chestnut gone as it is hosted in oak tress and a few other species that it does not harm.</p><p></p><p>The American Chestnut Foundation, <a href="https://acf.org" target="_blank">https://acf.org</a>, is an organization that is working to come up with a blight resistant tree to hopefully restore this once great tree. Check them out if you're interested in the American Chestnut. Lot of info here.</p><p></p><p>There are several hybrid chestnuts you can obtain and plant that are pretty much blight resistant. The Dustan is probably the most popular. These hybrids all are some cross of an Asian chestnut with the American, although they all seem to be more Asian than American in appearance and structure. I stratify a few Dunstan nuts every fall to plant on my place and then sell the extra saplings in the summer. I've sold a number of them to folks on here in the past. But hopefully someday my grandkids and great grandkids will once again see the American Chestnut as a common tree in our forests!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dg7080, post: 5263087, member: 3"] Absolute shame what happen to the American Chestnut. Once a predominant tree in much of the eastern US, especially in Appalachia. There are a handful of survivor trees but they are veryyy few. The tree is really not totally extinct but considered functionally extinct.. you can plant an American sapling, but it will die off in several years as the blight will eventually infect it. For many years, the old dead trees would resprout from the root systems that were still alive, but then die off in a few years as the blight would reinfect the new growth. The blight still resides to this day in our forests even with the Chestnut gone as it is hosted in oak tress and a few other species that it does not harm. The American Chestnut Foundation, [URL]https://acf.org[/URL], is an organization that is working to come up with a blight resistant tree to hopefully restore this once great tree. Check them out if you're interested in the American Chestnut. Lot of info here. There are several hybrid chestnuts you can obtain and plant that are pretty much blight resistant. The Dustan is probably the most popular. These hybrids all are some cross of an Asian chestnut with the American, although they all seem to be more Asian than American in appearance and structure. I stratify a few Dunstan nuts every fall to plant on my place and then sell the extra saplings in the summer. I've sold a number of them to folks on here in the past. But hopefully someday my grandkids and great grandkids will once again see the American Chestnut as a common tree in our forests! [/QUOTE]
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