Couple big American chestnuts OH
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I was very surprised, but don't have a reason to doubt it -- a pair of big Amer chestnuts in Stephenson County IL. IF they are isolated from oaks, which can harbor the chestnut blight, then there's no blight to infect them. Amer chestnuts can grow well on the US west coast.
I have one (one other was deer-destroyed) supposedly 95% F5 hybrid Amer chestnut from OIKOS that has grown pretty well, about 30 ft x 30 ft now. Alittle blight on a branch or two, but not serious.
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Thanks for the info, arbordave -- you're prb'ly right (edited post). And that makes more sense since OH was prime chestnut range (blight is still present as it is here at my spot).
LClark, you are correct. Too bad OIKOS went out of business as they had an extensive program on the Amer chestnut with quite of few generations of chestnuts going. As I recall, they started w/pure Amer chestnuts that seemingly had some resistance to the blight, then crossed them w/Chinese ones (F1). That generation was then purposely exposed to the blight, and the most resistant then crossed w/the first Amer chestnut types, resulting in F2. Continue then w/that process and eventually result in their F5s.
I'm sure this process is continuing now w/other organizations like The American Chestnut Foundation and others. https://tacf.org/
The American chestnut rivaled tuliptree as the tallest eastern US tree.
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