Great Chestnut link on cultivated varieties and other good stuff

[Native Hunter]

Found this while doing research on my Eaton River Chestnut. Thought some of you guys would like it as well as I did:

http://www.acf.org/PowerPoint/30th Annual Meeting/craddock1.pdf

 

[Native Hunter]

Good link NH. I have a question on chestnut grafting.
So if you graft an American chestnut scion onto a Chinese rootstock or limb will that section of American growth be blight free?

I'm not a chestnut expert, but I don't think that section would be blight free.

Here is a link that also mentions "graft incompatibility" when doing that:

http://www.acf.org/newsletter5.21.13grafting.php

Here is another link on the subject that I haven't go to read yet.

http://journal.ashspublications.org/content/119/6/1127.full.pdf

 

[Native Hunter]

Here is a link from Michigan that has some great information on blight and cultivars:

http://chestnuts.msu.edu/establishing_orchards/germplasm