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Post by nhmountains on Oct 7, 2022 18:31:58 GMT -6
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Post by Reagan on Oct 8, 2022 6:21:16 GMT -6
I like the looks of an October drop. I have 3 trees that have been in the ground 2.5 years. No nuts yet.
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Post by nhmountains on Oct 9, 2022 7:32:22 GMT -6
I started counting the nuts this morning. I’m at 390 so far with another batch of burs that need a day or two more to open. I’m hoping for 450 total. There were a larger percentage of burs with more than 3 nuts. I’d say 15% had 4 or 5 in some cases. There was one with 5 pollinated nuts and one dud. The nuts were smaller this year. More the size of American. They should be sweeter. Here’s one with 4 pollinated nuts.
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Post by Reagan on Oct 9, 2022 9:46:21 GMT -6
Are you planting all them? Eating some?
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Post by nhmountains on Oct 9, 2022 17:54:51 GMT -6
Are you planting all them? Eating some? I’ll keep some in the refrigerator this winter for cold stratification and plant them at home for a year. Others I’ll plant on my land. Some are going to go over to the Greek pizza shop owners. They’re from Greece. Their home village has large chestnut groves that goes back hundreds of years. She loves to eat them and gets all excited talking about them. If I get the land I’ll be growing a bunch to plant on it once I have the two orchard areas cleared. I’ve proven I can grow them in this town. They just need lots of sunlight and great soils. The soils are great on this land. As for me eating them , that’s a lot of work to husk them and roast them but, I’ve done it before and made turkey stuffing with them.
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Post by nhmountains on Oct 12, 2022 15:01:13 GMT -6
The final tally:
October 12 2020 8 burs , 21 nuts 4 duds
October 8 2021 49 burs 119 nuts
October 7 2022 508 nuts 171 burs. 20% of the burs had 4 nuts. Some smaller burs had 2. Really great pollination ratio. I’m impressed.
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Post by nhmountains on May 18, 2023 21:19:56 GMT -6
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Post by MoBuckChaser on May 30, 2023 18:52:39 GMT -6
Checked out a few dunstans here today. Saw some still holding chestnuts and piles of chestnuts on the ground untouched by the deer. What gives?
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Post by benmnwi on May 31, 2023 12:08:59 GMT -6
Did you crack any open to see if there is a nut inside?
I have a hazelnut at my cabin that seems to have a lot of nuts left untouched, but when I cracked some open the nut was eaten by a bug of some sort. I think the deer can smell which ones have a nut inside and which ones have a bug inside.
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Post by nhmountains on Jun 12, 2023 5:51:01 GMT -6
Those look like pollinated nuts so I'm not sure what to tell you Mo. I'm surprised squirrels didn't get them sitting there like that. Everything is cleaned up here within 2 weeks of those burs falling.
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Post by smsmith on Jun 15, 2023 9:51:38 GMT -6
My guess is that nothing in the area knows what the heck a chestnut is, so they aren't getting eaten. It will probably take a few generations of critters to figure out they're good chow.
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Post by nhmountains on Jun 17, 2023 6:35:58 GMT -6
My guess is that nothing in the area knows what the heck a chestnut is, so they aren't getting eaten. It will probably take a few generations of critters to figure out they're good chow. Sort of like the brassicas on my land. They used to leave them until a hard frost. Now they eat them earlier and earlier each year. Never get a lot of bulbs now.
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Post by nhmountains on Jun 17, 2023 6:39:21 GMT -6
Here's my biggest chestnut. It's pushing 25' with the new growth. This one heve been close to the size of the other tree but, a moose broke it off 3-4 years ago. It's coming back stronger this year.
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Post by Reagan on Jul 23, 2023 7:19:18 GMT -6
Found a dead dunstan today. Planted 3 years go as a group of 3. They were hit with late frost the last 2 years that zapped growth. The weak one took the frost hard this year. A very dry June and half of July finished it off. The other 2 are doing pretty good. No nuts but they are growing
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