Anyone plant Dunstan Chestnuts for deer?

[KentuckyWolf]

FYI

From my plantings....deer prefer the American and European hybrids over straight Chinese or Japanese chestnut.

[John Cholin]

I'm a member of the American Chestnut Foundation and thee has been a breeding program using traditional cross-breeding techniques to achieve a blight resistant American chestnut for many years.  There are blight-resistant hybrids being planted out in many locations to verify suitability for various parts of the former range of the American chestnut.  Some trees are expected to exhibit blight resistance, some will fall short of that goal.  It is a very time-consuming effort!

SUNY is trying to use recombinant DNA and gene splicing to sort-cut the process.  The problem is that there appear to be a number of genes that contribute to blight-resistance and not all have been identified or isolated.  However, it is a promising approach that might lead to an additional line of blight resistant trees.

I have a few hopefully blight-resistant trees that I have grown from nuts that are now planted-out.  It will be several more years before they are old enough to bear.  U am hopeful!

JMC

[Tedd]

My Dunstan chestnuts arrived as ordered. Packaged nicely, no damage, trees in good shape, nice root ball, still wet, dipped in that gel stuff that keeps the roots moist. Planted them the next day. Put tree tubes on them. No complaints. I'll take some photos of them. Now, if I could just get 5 years growth over night!
I'm thinking about getting 8 more. Someone mentioned you can get them for less somewhere, where is that?

Thanks,