Is this reliable? Like can I fr buy American chestnuts? Or is this a scam, please help!

basic plastic storage bag w/ moist sphagnum. plan on refrigerating until may. poked about a dozen holes with a toothpick for air circulation. all the nuts are covered and evenly spaced to the best of my ability. anything i can improve on? just want to make sure i’m not missing anything. thank you!

Anybody ever purchased chestnuts from these folks? https://store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org/products/american-chestnut?_pos=2&_sid=3d720c8c7&_ss=r

The process of science leads to learning. One of the major lessons learned from this process is the need to have field test data and results, not just lab and greenhouse data, available prior to plans for deployment and release of a given product.

I mean this is possibly one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read.

They were petitioning the government to approve a nationwide release, were steps away from rolling out across the country, and they hadn’t bothered to test and make sure it actually worked?

Imagine lobbying and campaigning for years as an individual to be allowed to compete in the Olympic 400m dash as your own sovereign nation (or some other equally bureaucratic red tape nightmare, it's a metaphor). Only oops, you forgot to actually learn to run or even walk first. And you're in a wheelchair. Don't even have legs at all, actually.

How does any serious scientific organization let this happen? And if they knew it was weak and underperforming all along, why did they plunge ahead like they were almost ready for a national rollout, and why did no one double check to see why it wasn’t doing well?

Hey folks, I'm a casual observer and aspiring homesteader. I just want a few trees that wont die around the property. Is d58 viable for that? Which variety is most resistant to blight as of now?

Reforestation would be ideal but from what I can tell that's still a ways off. Or have I misunderstood? I see plenty if hybrids that claim to be blight resistant but I'm not up to speed on what's accurate info.

Thanks!

I just picked up a few of these from a farmer who says they are American Chestnuts. I’m skeptical. What do you all think?

https://tacf.org/tacf-discontinues-development-of-darling-58/

I live in west Texas and was thinking about if I could plans American Chestnuts there. I don’t know much about them and only recently found out about the blight and the damage it caused. If I planted in west Texas would it still get the blight? Or would there be a chance it would be safer with there not being many trees especially oaks in the area?

I'm a student at SUNY ESF and they just released the news that Dr. William Powell passed away Sunday, November 12th. Dr Powell started the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project at SUNY ESF alongside Dr. Charles Maynard in 1989, at the behest of the American Chestnut Foundation. This project eventually led to the creation of Darling 58, the transgenic American Chestnut tree.

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Im not sure when exactly the nuts start to fall but from what I can remember it's some time soon if not already, and this year I can't find any American chestnut seeds for sale anywhere, does anyone have a pure wild type, not TACF back crossed tree that I could buy some seed from? Around 15 seeds is what I'd be looking for.

Northern California coast. Not all all where one would expect to find this tree. But apparently the blight hasn't made it here either. The tree is about 75' +- 15' tall. trunk is 3'+ in diameter. It's growing on a bit of high ground next to Lake Earl in Del Norte County, CA. I Imagine that that there was probably a hunting cabin here at some time prior to WWII and that the tree was deliberately planted at that time.

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Edit: Adding information in response to other redditors comments:

The leaf in the second picture is ~21 cm in length and is completely smooth. It is, unfortunately, a shaded leaf. I will attempt to get an unshaded leaf, but it may not be possible.

One user suggested that the only way to definitively identify whether this is American, European, or hybrid is to examine the trichomes. I have ordered what I hope is an appropriate microscope for this task and it should be here in a couple of days. Stay tuned!

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Nine seeds from three burs. Only one appears viable

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They are not clear in this image, but the viable seed has superfine hairs that increase in density as you progress from the hilum to the tip

https://preview.redd.it/8fjai4talgub1.jpg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b465af310781dffb93b5dd1d5deb0c061c03216

https://preview.redd.it/vjup8ctalgub1.jpg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c9f019ff6e2fb4ac55dbf26e92d25420727f513

https://preview.redd.it/vrxgzstalgub1.jpg?width=3456&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=080c9733b01868d74cf348aca3ae9c2ec64161e3

600 Dungsten chestnuts.

Open for pick your own Saturday and Sunday 10-4 East Rockingham Chestnuts on Facebook or ChestnutsVa.com

I've just discovered the history of the American chestnut.

Is the disease still around and non resistant trees still vulnerable? I'm wondering if it's worth grabbing seeds from current trees to help them repopulate or if we're waiting on science for a resistant version.

Sorry about the crappy photo but it’s a sapling growing off an old root system at the northern most part of their range up here in NH.

I live in NH and learned the other year that UNH has been doing some work on the effort to make a blight resistant chestnut for a while now.

I own a home and 2 acres and would love to plant as many as I reasonably can that will allow them to grow healthily.

We've already got several fruit trees that we take care of, so adding additional trees with specific care needs is very little burden.

Would love to help the future see these awesome trees :)