I thought that chestnuts are self compatible? But the reason this is so rare, and generally requires multiple trees is because on the same tree the male and female flowers bloom at different times.

Have American chestnut trees seedlings growing, central maryland acreage.

What s the new name of the chestnut society you are talking about

An old fella was telling me he knows where there is a huge fallen chestnut . It was in the same place and fallen when he was 10 years old , he is 80 years old now . And it was still laying there in 2023. He thinks it fell around 1920 .

Great work. Thanks for sharing

With all due respect how are we going to save this tree when there are so many hybrids already in North America? Won't the Hybrids cross pollinate with the American chestnut to create a different species?

Chestnut pollen is one of the most nutritious foods on the earth. It's also very delicious.

What about the Elm is it also a concern as well as the Ash. Is this more of a problem than meets the eye ?

THE ACF is a fraudulent organization.....do not give them a single penny....

Very informative, Jim! Great interview!

great map of the original range.

Id love to see how they do in north texas, i hear they can grow here

stop with the (hum)

Is climate change going to change the Hardiness Zones around enough so that I can plant some Chestnuts around me in Northern Michigan? I live in a zone around 5a & 5b.

are you guys gong to save the american beech?

Spooner WI, washburn county had one. But they cut it down to expand a dairy queen parking lot. It was huge and old.

It'll be hundreds of years before it ever e en comes close to reality....

I sent a sample of one of my trees to one of the labs listed on the web site that confirmed it was indeed a surviving Chestnut.Tried working with TACF rep in my area last year and he acted like he couldn't care less - flat out told me he wasn't interested. I have an 85 acre farm in Western NY that could be used for planting and research and was willing to let it be used as a research station..... Great to see the rest of your organization is more enthusiastic about the mission than he is...

Would love to try some genetically altered trees seedling's here on my farm in northern Arkansas

Jared, Have you done any testing on ACCF trees and found anything interesting?

I have found 2 large American chestnuts in Monroe county PA.....one was on a boy scout reservation (not sure if still alive) the other in a gated community growing near road. Both had burs but no viable nuts. I have also found some small bushy American chesntuts growing in Northampton county along the Appalachian trail that had burs on them (growing in full sun).

I think it would be bad to plant other species where American Chestnuts have been planted I have a fear of them cross pollinating

What species of Chestnuts are they selling. I do not see American Chestnuts producing this weight.

I have 9 american chestnuts that are doing well in my forest land in Potter County

Tastes like chicken 🐔

I have 2 that are producing south west Michigan. Both are 11 years old.

Well done !

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Well done !

Very nice job on a much needed video Mike. :)

Thank You !

Loved the video .

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I just go by the accent 😁

I’ve been working as a forest tech and I’ve seen around a dozen American Chestnuts this summers few 7 in diameter but mostly 3 inches or less

I live in zone 9. North Florida, north of the St. Johns River. Please, would any American Chestnut thrive here?

I live in northeast Massachusetts, and in one of the old cemeteries from the 1600-1700's in my town, towering above the graves of some Revolutionary war veterans is a huge American Chestnut tree that somehow survived the blight. It's an awesome sight, especially among grave stones that are over 300 years old.

Hi my name is alvin dixon or you can call me Al . any way may I receive just a few pods to try to grow some chestnuts here in Texas ilive just 60 miles south east of dallas I have seen other nut trees doing very well here .

I planted a American Chestnut tree what I thought. 25 years ago. It just died.

just watched a video on the 'new' American Chestnut tree. I live in Washington State and on the west side of the Cascades we have wonderful weather for the chestnut tree....winters are not bad and summers are not arid. I believe we need this tree here in Washington. ......with land I will grow them here.....gotta buy land now.

Excellent presentation. Hope this species can be saved and flourish. Thanks

Why not make a GMO? Just transfer the resistance genes from the Asian chestnut instead of the whole Asian chestnut genome? Then it would be a real American Chestnut instead of an Asian chestnut that just looks like an American.

I live in northern Pennsylvania in Cold Spring Township I have 32 acres here and 4, 000 Acres of State game land and I do believe these are American chestnuts

Would like someone come and tell me if they are

I have american chestnut

I planted 2 Dunstan chestnuts this spring. They seem to be doing OK. We had Chinquapin trees here in NW AR. Evidently the American chestnut didn't grow this far west. The chinquapin trees were close relatives to the Ameeican chestnut and were also wiped out (mostly) by the same blight.

there were less forests in the early 1900's most places were farms , but now the forests are returning until some developer buys teh land and ruins it forever

why don't the arbor day foundation start sending out seedlings to kids in elementary schools, like they did when I was a kid they always gave us some pine tree, I dont know what type of tree it was though

There is a program in WV and they have been working on hybridizing them to fight the blight. They are almost there. Just 1 step away from reintroducing it to the wild.

Collect the pollen from those isolated trees to pollinate others and vise versa. You want nuts with broad genetic diversity.