Your right Jill, those are not American chestnuts Ty Ty is selling.
Leaves are shiny and nuts are too large.

Bob Summersgill

PA-TACF


On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:45:06 -0500 "Jill Hamell"
<jarrha@...> writes:
> > I found some American chestnut trees on-line at www.tytyga.com
> the
> > website claims the following:
> >
> > 'A reportedly blight resistant hardy, native chestnut stand was
> > recently discovered growing in a very isolated location in a U.S.
> > National Park. These trees produce large, honey sweet kernels of
> > unexcelled taste and quality. Ty Ty will offer these rare trees
> now.
> > Zones 3-9'
>
> Hi, James,
> I'm not claiming to be an expert, but ... looking at the pictures on
> the
> website (http://www.tytyga.com/chestnuts/americanpg12.htm) they
> seem to be
> Asian crosses. I'm going by the size of the nuts, which are totally
>
> out-sized for Americans, and the appearance of the leaves. I can
> only get
> an impression of these, but they look like leathery hybrid leaves,
> lacking
> points. They may be good nut trees, but I'm pretty sure looking at
> them
> that they aren't more than half American; if I'm right, what a shame
> that
> they're selling them as pure American.
>
> I suggest you consider getting some nuts or seedlings from the
> American
> Chestnut Cooperators' Foundation - www.accf-online.org. They are the
> only
> group working to create a 100% American blight resistant chestnut,
> and are
> deserving of your help and support if you are interested in growing
> and
> restoring American Chestnut. (The other, better known group working
> on
> chestnut restoration is the American Chestnut Foundation, which uses
> Asian
> crosses and then repeated crosses back to the American. This is also
> a
> worthy project, though I'm personally inclined to prerer the ACCF
> approach.
> I'm not sure whether TACF is distributing resistant stock yet.) If
> you get
> stock from ACCF, you can help with restoration work. The downside is
> that
> you have to start a larger number of seedlings to end up with a
> couple of
> naturally blight-resistant trees. However, if you think you might be
> able
> to manage grafting, some of the non-resistant ones that survive can
> be used
> as root stock.
>
> > I'm really interested in getting some of these and see if I can
> get
> > them to grow. I'm wondering what to expect. They offer 1 yr and
> 2
> > yr old trees. How old do they normally have to be before they
> > will bear chestnuts? I saw on the website that they are not
> self
> > pollinating so I'll need at least 2 trees, but I'm not sure how
> many
> > I'll end up with yet.
>
> American chestnuts are very fast growing. I think that in good
> growing
> conditions they can start flowering in 6-7 years from nuts. I think
> this
> is faster than other chestnuts, as they seem to be slower growing -
> but I
> don't have any personal experience with these.
>
> Good luck! I hope you'll write us about what you decide to do.
> Jill in NJ
>
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