Re: American Chestnut Restoration Project
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:59 pm
Why was he recommending against planting Chinese Chestnuts Manny? I only ask because I planted 4 last spring. Since I don't have 20 years to wait and see if they will blight or not I felt that Chinese was the only viable option left for me in chestnuts. Maybe I was thinking wrong. I know that we do seem to be very close to a blight resistant variety, it has been 100 years of research and breeding new cross breeds to get to this point. That is normally when the rug gets pulled out from under you. I hope that he is correct and we have a blight resistant variety in a year or two.