Chestnut has limited days? How old is that tree, know what it is grafted on? I knocked down alot of trees at my home, place was an old orchard. Still have 3 or 4 still kicking. Doubt after I am gone, much of these trees will be not cut down. Planted the majority of them when I was 45/46.
Went to a fancier farmstand yesterday. They were selling chestnut for 3.95 a pound. Wife ate one, Didnt like it at first, too dry, but started liking the flavor. They had firecracker too, but didnt get any. Was hoping they had liberty, enterprise, or another apple tree I had.
SLN has a crabapple called weet dog. They took 100 seeds from sweetango apples and planted them to see what they would do. Best find out of their experiment was a good winter crabapple. Not sure how many years they have been offering this. They're about 40 minutes from my camp and have events from time to time. Might have to stop in and look around.
I was going to do an experiment with cosmic crisp this year. Wife thew out the germinated seeds from the fridge by accident. I'm guessing these trees are planted in a whole field the same type. I do have 2 cosmics growing at home from scion. They are next to violi's, sweet 16, dolgo, macoun, galarina, and sln's winter wildlife. Might make some interesting seedlings. Probably will mesh bag a few flowers and direct pollinate with other meshed flowers from other trees.
