Project Chestnut

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There's some chinquapins in the campground at Quarry Park below Norfork dam.  Nice one's too.

[BilletHead]

  Ollie,

This thread involves blight resistant varieties of the big native chestnuts that were wiped out from the chestnut blight. Not the Chinkapin oak we have here in Missouri. http://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/chinkapin-oak-chinquapin-oak

    Not sure what you are looking for. Here is my chestnut harvest from my trees this year. Minus a couple I ate and the two clusters the squirrels got before I could pick them up.

    I think I will start a few more trees and eat the rest.

BilletHead

[Gavin]

Getting all Bing Crosby on us! Have not seen any in years...and 4-5 trees need to go. Thanks for the idea.

 

[BilletHead]

      Planted some of last years nuts early this spring in pots. I think I had one hundred percent germination.  Some of the larger pots have two to four trees growing in them. Forty -two  little trees coming on strong,

   Blooms or catkins coming on now for fall harvest. Hard to tell but thinking I should have triple or more than I had last year if all goes well and they make,

     BilletHead is going nuts and not far to getting there

[Ham]

Hey BH,

If you need someone to take a few of those chestnut trees, I'd love to plant and protect a few in my yard.

thanks your buddy, Ham  

[BilletHead]

       Can fix you up big time Ham. Just think in a quick, at least it was quick to me five years you will be harvesting your own chestnuts .

Your welcome your buddy, Marty

[MoCarp]

In the early 90's I found eastern chestnut trees some over 70 foot tall and straight as an arrow. it was at Lester R. Davis forest, just across the south entrance at Prairie State Park north of Mindenmines if those survived, they should be huge by now, easy to find the little grove of them, not far from the road 3 or 4 berms east of the entrance to the forest, cool place lots of stick piles that are pack rat nests, I keyed one out for a botany class (Julian A. Steyermark key book)... kept coming back as a eastern chestnut, that couldn't be I thought...had to be a Ozark Chinquapin and turned it in as such, he gave me credit, but wanted to know exactly where I had found them..If I remember correctly there is a planting list of Davis woods, it was kind of a test area to see what would grow on reclaimed spoil banks

lots of non-native trees, have not walked it for 25 years, bet the trees grew a might

https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/places/davis-lester-r-mem-forest

[Ham]

There is a website promoting restoration of the Ozark Chinquapin trees. 

I'd love for that to happen. 

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There's some real nice Chinquapins in the Quarry Park campground. 

[BilletHead]

           This years harvest,

 Burrs are beginning to open up. Picking daily. I think I will be done in the next two days. Besides what is in the photo I have fifteen more burrs still on the trees,

    BilletHead