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Your best chestnut recommendations??

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StucknAz

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As i mentioned with persimmons, my farms are heavy with pear and apples but are also chestnut free. What are your recommendations for chestnuts? Where are you placing your orders at? Is there a particular variety to steer clear from? Any tha I should focus’s on?
 
I would definitely do a variety, say pick at least 3 different ones.
So down the road if you have a problem you lesson your risk
 
I purchased the Sept, Oct, and November drop varieties from Morse nursery. Had very poor results. True to their word, they replaced all the ones that died with Lorain Cold Hardy Chestnut, Layeroka Hybrid Chestnut and those are doing much better, but not amazing.
 
I will be curious if this extended cold stretch zaps a bunch of this year. I dont think they tolerate super cold winters when young, from my experience. We shall see.
 
I'd say it depends where you are located, but I would test the waters with a small volume regardless of what you buy to see if they will work.

You didn't mention pears, but I have had amazing luck with Kieffer pears. Very hardy and growing rapidly for me
 
For chestnuts, does anyone have any thoughts on Japanese vs Chinese vs hybrids? And planting- fall vs spring? Timing conditions?
 
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Almost all fruit and nut trees have a short feeding period.That being said if you have enough trees it puts out lots of lbs of food for awhile.I have around 60 fruit trees and have planted hundreds of oaks, also persimmon.If you get persimmon get grafted or you can end up with a bunch of males. If you get fruit trees get disease resistant and trees for you're zone. I also have chestnut.If you can get chestnuts for you're area I would consider a chestnut orchard with crabapples and pears.I really like asian pears to eat also.
 
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