Dunstan Chestnuts

Those should be half price or less by now. My RK is completely sold out on ALL that stuff.

I planted 4 of those a couple months ago. 2 of them look "ok" by now. Save your receipt.

If I didn't already have those I wouldn't plant them again. I'd get ten times as many persimmon seedlings.

I bought persimmon seedlings from these guys in mid summer and I think they will catch up with those chestnuts in a couple years or less AND so far every single one of them has lived. www.henslernurseryindiana.com/

I'd also put these or something just like them on every single seed or seedling. Half as much planting and use these, you'll get twice as much growth and results AND they will ALL be GOOD trees. Instead of bent, crooked, bit off stubs.

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Here are the ten chestnuts just an inch to 3 inches. I'm going to plant the Chestnut trees with pot in the ground in a couple weeks, then plant trees in the yard/woods this fall.  Bonus picture of the wall that I re-built last year. Building another 4  x longer starting in a week or two.  PS: I found mud puppies in my pond creek last week.  Man was I surprised.

Two of mine from last year are dead as firewood now. We'll see just how good that year warranty is. Right now they don't have any to trade out.

Wayne thanks for the tips on my Chestnuts. I got the seeds out Sat. I was surprised to find 2-4 seed per pod. I have them soaking right now.

I planted the 1st of 10 or 11 in my front yard. I 1st put a orange juice clear plastic container around it and then a 3.5ft diameter and 5 ft high fence. I have weed block to slow down the grass/weeds over the next few years. This should protect from rabbits and deer. Plan on doing this for all of them. The plastic will stay this year or when they get 3 ft tall. Here are two pictures.

I planted the other 8 chestnut trees last Saturday. With the weekend heavy, heavy rain all looks good. I have four around my fall food plot (stand #1) and four in the woods on the other side of the house (stand #2). The ninth is in my front yard between the (Shumard, White, Black, Red, Pin, English) oaks. I guess you can tell I like oak trees.

Bummer that none came up.  I have read that the trees start producing seeds in 3-5 years.  Hopefully, in a few years I will some to give away to everyone here that wants some.   

Out of my 10 chestnut trees I have two not looking good. One just stopped and all but one leave fell off. Same soil etc. I'm still watering it when needed and fertilized it a week ago. The other was up-rooted by a mole and I didn't notice until evening (work) and the roots where dry. I replanted and all the leaves turned brown, but to date have not fallen off. I'm hoping it re-starts new growth.

EVERYTHING on my place fungus hasn't killed is getting ate up by Japanese beetles or bag worm.

Used up the last of my Diazinon I've been saving for 30 years and it must have got weak. So yesterday and today I been spraying down the place with agent ora... I mean liquid Sevin.

I did notice one lonely little chesnut on one of my Dunstan Chestnut trees. Two of those have been in the ground over a year and the other two were planted about a month ago.

I went through my little forest of bald cypress, pecans,hicans, and butternuts and pruned the holy crap out of the low branches trying to give the short ones a fighting chance. Truth is, as usual, I planted the way to close together. Then I never cut down the runts like I said I was planning to.

But I think it's the coolest thing ever to walk through. It feels like the temperature drops 20 degrees to walk in there from the sun. It's almost to the point about 70 percent of the trees have their lowest limb about 8 feet high and I can drive the tractor and mower through most all of it.