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This article is for Ozark Chinquapin so I don't know if it would apply but maybe there's some tips that will be helpful to you. Here is a link that might be useful: How to grow an Ozark Chiquapin from seed

That is true but as Edy said...you never know until you try and if blight does show up I'll just hold it off as long as I can with the mud pack treatment. Although the blight lives in post oaks, it's rarely found outside of chestnut range according to TACF head Scientist. He said there's a pretty good chance that the trees could make it to a significant age in my area. Although northeast TX was once home to Ozark chinquapin, most of this particular area had been timbered, burned and transformed into agriculture ranch lands in the early and mid 1900's. In the last 50 years most of the land in our area have become regenerated forest. Although post oaks are a host for blight but it doesn't sweep through a post oak forest and affect them the same as it does a chestnut forest. When the blight first swept though chestnut forest, the alleghany and Ozark chinquapin range overlapped the with the chestnut range which allowed the blight to sweep west of the Mississippi in the early 1900's. It killed off all of the Ozark chinquapin in east Texas although the Alleghany chinquapin still grows in parts of east TX. Although post oaks are native to northeast TX I've only seen one 4 1/2 foot tall sapling growing on our entire place besides the tiny seedlings I planted this past spring. There are mature southern red oaks, water oaks, sweet gum, sassafras and loblolly and short leaf pines. I know there's always a chance but I'm quite confident that I'll see some chestnuts at some point in the future...even if I have to use the mud pack treatments for the next 5 - 10 years on any outbreaks...

Hi Resin and qm, thanks for your reply. I'm still debating whether or not to consider trying to grow a chestnut tree. I've limited space in the yard and these trees grow pretty big.. plus I would need two of them! It would be nice if I could get a neighbor to grow one so they both weren't in my yard but fat chance of that happening. My neighbors don't seem to take much interest in their yards much less plants. I'll definately give it some more though and thanks for the cultivar suggestions. I'll probably spend the next few months mulling this over but will update the trees forum if I do get some of these trees. Best, Meixue