I just joined here this week so forgive me if there is a thread I haven't seen.
I decided to try my hand at growing Dunstan chestnuts this winter. I was just wondering if anyone else on here is doing this. I jumped in a little to quick before I had read enough and have had a few mold issues but I hope I have solved that now. Just checked today and had 5 that had sprouted, now only 300 or so to go lol.

Where did you find Dunstan chestnuts to plant? I bought a couple of the Dunstan seedlings and had horrible luck with them. I would LOVE to get some chestnuts. I will buy some from you if you have any extras.

I ordered from chestnut hill in pike county Illinois. I just checked but didn't see them listed there now. I'm assuming they sold out.
http://www.chestnuthilltreefarm.com/
I'll have to wait and see what my germination rate is with these, but I definitely do not need 300. I bought them at 2 different times so the largest part of them will not begin to sprout until march. Just remind me later on and we can most likely work something out.

some of the Wal-Marts had them last year for $25/6-7 foot tall trees in containers

Will do.

I remember seeing that posted last year, but I never got to one that had them in stock.

You can order them from the Wildlife Group outside of Auburn and have them shipped to you. http://www.wildlifegroup.com

I looked but didn't see them. I would definitely be interested in some of those AU Buck iii's and iv's.

What I REALLY, REALLY want is some of the 15/16 th's American Chestnut's I've heard about.

Yeah I looked into the 15/16th and found for a donation of 10000$ you can sponser a tree and get to go visit it and get up to 22 seeds per year. That just seems like an insane amount of $. I really hope they become readily available in the next decade. I would love to plant a bunch on my place.

I ordered some American chestnuts on ebay last night. The nuts look legit but they are probably not what they claim they are. They claim the nuts come from two trees that have a DBH of 13" and 15" and have no signs of the blight. At any rate, I've wasted a heck of a lot more money on less I guess.

ive got a bunch of chestnuts in the fridge trying to germinate, but idk what kind they are. my neighbor has a couple of tree that were absolutely loaded this year. he said they were planted in 2000.

Well maybe you'll have good luck with them either way. There is supposedly an American chestnut still living in the talledega national Forrest.

There are still some native trees growing, but when they reach maturity the blight kills them. If it is producing fruit that is pretty cool, but it is also possible it could be crossed with a chinese.

Fur, my dad bought some from the wildlife group last week so you may just have to call them.

I have several of the 15/16's that are in the fridge that I am going to pot soon. Hoping they will make it and be blight resistant as not all of them are.

Here is a link to the tree. Maybe it will keep beating the odds.

http://www.annistonstar.com/pages/full_s...st+in+the+state

Cool article, maybe it has some genetic mutation that makes it resistant.

The biggest I have found was 25-30 foot tall and about 4" @ DBH. I wish I could have seen the giant Chestnuts that used to cover the East. I think I read that at one time 3 out 4 trees in the east were chestnuts.

Yeah I read that as well. I bet that made for some treacherous walking in the woods! Definitely not somewhere to go on a barefoot stroll.

You got that right lol.

I bought several from Wal-Mart last year I think 10 and planted them they were over 6ft tall they are doing well you can go to real tree nursery online they will tell you which Wal-Mart's will have them I also planted 80 sawtooths and 12 apple trees

Check your pm.

Called a few Walmarts around my area, they haven't arrived yet. Some said they weren't sure if they would get any this year. Yal let me know if you see any and I'll do the same.