Beautyful little trees. I still dont know if mine are hybrids or not... Hopefully yours will grow fast and healthy!

You sir ended up on my algorythm, might be a good omen to expose the world to this strange fruit and your cultivation of the same.

You sir ended up on my algorythm, might be a good omen to expose the world to this strange fruit and your cultivation of the same.

There's only one Paw Paw Fruit, and Kuma ate it :(

I've been planting 1000's of Chinese Chesnut Seeds throughout Ohio, Pa & WV for over 50 years hoping for some natural cross hybridization. Won't know for a hundred years whether my efforts were worthwhile, but at 72, I'm still planting & still hopeful.

PawPaw flavor changes per plant, like apples

Most people seem to pick paw paws when they are way too green. I always gather them off the ground and never pick them, if it’s still on the tree it’s not ready yet. Overripe is more palatable than underripe

Glad to here the good chestnut news!

I don't think all of the battle against blight is happening above ground. Human immune system response improves after exposure. It is Both genetic and environmental. The best genes in the world can't compensate if there is no gut biome "literacy". For the trees the gut biome equivalent are the roots interacting with the "right" diversity of soil life. I have hypothesized sampling and culturing the soil near successful resistant chestnuts along with successful scions could be a key to more full American lineage chestnuts retaining their health.

how do you expect it to perform?

awesome please keep us updated

how do tgell if it has blight??

I read somewhere that all Chestnuts can pollinate but the male and female flowers appear at a different time so that rarely happens, dont know if its true

If she's self-pollinating, are these nuts basically going to grow clones of the Miracle Sisters Chestnut?

Awesome!

That’s great! I’m really glad you found a viable nut!! I hope you get some more! The genetics from the miracle sister tree provide hope for the survival of the species! I feel you are the best person to be the Stuart of those trees and that land!

Would air layering the suckers work?

Have you tried using rooting hormones on the cuttings? It might bring some nice results!

Beautyful, maybe they can build resistence over time?

Thank you for what you do

Are those beech trees still living? Has beech leaf disease reached you guys up there in Canada ?

I’m a bit obsessed with the American chestnut and I’ve done a lot of research. At first it did seem hopeless to rescue a pure American chestnut but I’ve found a few videos of people like you growing seed from surviving trees and the trees have varying levels of blight tolerance. Yes they all get the blight but many live much longer than others and I don’t see why a selective breeding program of breeding together the most tolerant trees wouldn’t eventually end up in a tree tolerant enough to survive in the woods. Especially if you use some of the large surviving pure Americans with clear heritable resistance, although those are hard to come by but there are some out there and there are likely at least dozens in the woods. The OZARK chinquapin foundation has produced a pure ozark chinquapin with blight resistance equal to or greater than the Chinese chestnut. We know that there are 400 million chestnut trees left, even though we know 85% of those have a diameter of 1 inch or less there must be at least 100 out there with good blight tolerance. If we could focus more energy on finding those trees there could be hope. I personally don’t think a hybrid American will work and fill the same ecological niche that a pure American filled. Native wildlife preferentially choose smaller American chestnuts over hybrids and Chinese chestnuts.

You have many vidoes, what the title of that prequel

Thank you!!!

Add compost to make up for removing the forest floor leaves an such

The more I learn about how evil the US government is, the more I'm convinced that they were behind the American chestnut blight, the same way that they decimated the bison which was the American Indians staple of life. The American chestnut was a free source of food, shelter, and also a revenue source for the people.

I get hundreds of chestnuts every year from American Chestnut trees.

When you put them in the fridge, will the worms still damage the nut?

now it would be an invasive

The best time to plant a fruit was 10 years ago the second best time is now, might not be around to taste the fruit. That tree will produce fruit for the people and animals who remain for hundreds of years after we are gone that is true legacy wealth.

Durn that Chip and Dale...... They should go back to dancing.....!!!

How's it doing?

Beautyfull little tree

Hope you are correct!

How would you even get in touch with these two?

Do you have any evidence of the oak helping the chestnut? I have 100 chestnut seedlings and am having a mast year with my white oaks. I'd plant some together if there is a confirmed benefit.

I'm jaded. Deer will find that seedling and strip it of its leaves, killing it. Well, that's what happens where I live unless the plants are surrounded by wire cages.

My chestnuts seem to be European X American chestnut hybrids. At least one looks like it. I'm a bit disappointed that they are hybrids but they will probably make beautiful trees regardless

Paw Paw very good eating. I think you could just put the mulberry cutting in the ground and it will root

Mulberry very good! White are non native. Wood very strong. Birds love those berries.

Great use of native edible trees

Congrats on supporting native insect populations! Please do not get rid of the milkweed tiger moths or the red milkweed beetles, they are both part of the milkweed ecosystem. Perhaps plant more milkweed plants? Those stands you show look sparse and are unlikely to support many milkweed natives.

This is the milkweed tussock moth larvea. They are native and usually consume milkweeds later in the season after monarchs have pupated.

I've spent years in the woods and only once have I found a wild chestnut tree. Last year I came across one. The age is about 30 years. It certainly is a rare find. This year I will continue to hunt for more.

Studies have indicated that the American Chestnut of Ontario has the greatest genetic variability of any variety of the species. What this means is that the Ontario chestnut has perhaps the greatest potential to develop a blight resistant variety. It is therefore vital that these trees be planted as much as possible.

Paw Paw very good. Surprised there are not more growing out there

Awww I miss my trumpeter vine… it died a few years back. 😞

My friend, I’ve been planting American chestnuts here in Maine, so I am completely with you on your project! I have one tree that’s close to 25 years old and dozens that are approaching 20 (and many more that are up and coming). While the blight will eventually get them, they are at this point, growing and thriving and beginning to produce the next generations. It all has to start somewhere. I wish you continued successes.

In which usda zone u live ??

Thanks thanks thanks. I believe I bought a GMO apple tree. The branches grow in every direction, criss cross, tangled. It is not growing naturally at all. Its getting tall. Way over my head but has never bloomed.