Very informative! Thank you. Animals and chestnuts have worked together for so long. I wonder if coating seeds in hot pepper like cayenne would help for warding away squirrels and deer for planting chestnuts. I'd much rather plant seeds in the fall but I know they are tasty so winter them in the fridge, it's worked ok but they sprout too early. I lost a whole bucket of seeds to mold when I tried doing it outside. Capscacein works well for pepper plants and would be easy to add planting in caches. I'm going to try!
Good intentions makes for lousy outcomes. That's the story of good intention horticultural people in the last century importing trees species that were deadly to North American horticulture. The Eastern Chestnut is the perfect example of why you don't permit importation of other species into the North American spaces. But this list is long and sad. Invasive Species is all over the place.
Very informative! Thank you. Animals and chestnuts have worked together for so long. I wonder if coating seeds in hot pepper like cayenne would help for warding away squirrels and deer for planting chestnuts. I'd much rather plant seeds in the fall but I know they are tasty so winter them in the fridge, it's worked ok but they sprout too early. I lost a whole bucket of seeds to mold when I tried doing it outside.
Capscacein works well for pepper plants and would be easy to add planting in caches. I'm going to try!
i have always read that the fungus was introduced in 1904 in chinese chestnut imported to the New York Botanical garden.
With only four trees originally growing in the first place, how diverse is the genetics?
I wonder why the blight hasn't taken them?
Hi, I live close to you in Edgecomb, Maine. I'm curious if any of your American Chestnuts have ever gotten blight?
Can you help me and tell if Mr Heinrich write his books in English or German?
They are written in English but are also translated into other languages, I'm assuming German would be one of them.
some to plant anywhere?I am working on a food forest
This would be a good project to map out the DNA of the parents and their crosses.
Is this the guy who wrote "Ravens In Winter?"
yes
excellent
Nice but this guy needs a glass of water
Prime example of intelligence not equaling speaking ability, Good God that was hard to watch.
Good intentions makes for lousy outcomes.
That's the story of good intention horticultural people in the last century importing trees species that were deadly to North American horticulture.
The Eastern Chestnut is the perfect example of why you don't permit importation of other species into the North American spaces.
But this list is long and sad. Invasive Species is all over the place.