I believe that’ll be a hard accomplishment. Most forests are mature already and it’ll be hard for an American chestnut to get a good jump, unless it’s planted in recently timbered areas or wildfire sites. It’ll also be hard for seed germination with the lack of trees, coupled with the abundance of nut eating wildlife.
Simple solution: plant chestnuts after logging. Many of our eastern trees (eg Tulip Poplar, Sycamore, Black Walnut) are shade intolerant and need disturbance to successfully grow.
If you want a larger foothold to get planting moving. Offer a program to landowners to plant trees in wood lots. The trees are provided for free, landowners get an agreeable tax deduction to set aside owned land for forest Chestnut reforestation. In return let State government inspect these reforestation woodlots for blight issues. As more and more wood lots get to maturity. The State Government can remove diseased trees for free, but healthy trees can be pollen sampled for moving healthy genes to other locations for pollination. It will probably be a hundred years of regular checking and best tree pollinators to spread healthy wood lots across a whole country. But throw a bone to land owners to plant chestnut trees.
Makes too much sense. Even with everyone wanting to find these good seeds, no one seems to know where to find them. Further making people not care on what type of chestnut tree they plant.
How do I get the American chestnut that has genetic work done on it?
How do I get these genetic altered American chestnuts trees?
In one hundred years if you only plant a thousand trees , the trees themselfs will plant ten thousand siblings. Is it possible to get/buy some ?
I'm having a VERY hard time finding improved/hybrid "American" chestnuts to sprout and grow from nuts.
I believe that’ll be a hard accomplishment. Most forests are mature already and it’ll be hard for an American chestnut to get a good jump, unless it’s planted in recently timbered areas or wildfire sites. It’ll also be hard for seed germination with the lack of trees, coupled with the abundance of nut eating wildlife.
Simple solution: plant chestnuts after logging. Many of our eastern trees (eg Tulip Poplar, Sycamore, Black Walnut) are shade intolerant and need disturbance to successfully grow.
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If you want a larger foothold to get planting moving. Offer a program to landowners to plant trees in wood lots. The trees are provided for free, landowners get an agreeable tax deduction to set aside owned land for forest Chestnut reforestation. In return let State government inspect these reforestation woodlots for blight issues. As more and more wood lots get to maturity. The State Government can remove diseased trees for free, but healthy trees can be pollen sampled for moving healthy genes to other locations for pollination. It will probably be a hundred years of regular checking and best tree pollinators to spread healthy wood lots across a whole country. But throw a bone to land owners to plant chestnut trees.
Makes too much sense. Even with everyone wanting to find these good seeds, no one seems to know where to find them. Further making people not care on what type of chestnut tree they plant.