2 Year old Dunstan Chestnut Trees - Seedlings planted in 2017
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2019
- I grew several dunstan chestnuts from seed in spring of 2017. I planted the chestnut trees in tree tubes to protect them and help them grow taller quicker. Today we are going to walk around and inspect the trees.
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Seeing your trees and the success you've had back in 2017, gives me hope with my orchard. Thank you!
If I am not mistaken the American Chestnut trees grew in the tree line...this is probably why the ones you plant closer to the tree line do so well! I am so happy someone is doing something to bring these trees back! THANK YOU!
Just to be clear… Dunstan Chestnuts are NOT American Chestnuts. They’re a hybrid that’s ~75% Chinese, but they’re great for a food plot and human use.
The tubes are great for animal protection but also causes the tree to be a bit weaker as it’s not open to weather !
We used to take the tubes of when the trees reached around 3 4 feet and put a wire mesh round them to protect from rabbits and deer, the mesh was put round in a diameter of 3 feet to a height of 5 6 feet !
I'm honestly shocked how weedy those trees are when grown with the tubes. I've always grown trees with very little protection, just a stake for support if necessary and they are so strong. I'm actually put off ever using tubes now.
How do you prevent tree flop with shelters that tall?
@@mrmadness2699 very rarely get tree flop as it’s wire mesh and the sapling is allowed to blow in the wind to a certain degree thus giving you a much stronger tree with stronger root system
@Jamie McKenzie agreed. I have some pawpaws with just mesh and a few with a shelter, and while the ones with the shelter are three feet taller, they bend over wayyy too mich and the others seem stronger and better growing
Instead of using a t post, use the thinnest 1/2 inch PVC. Allows the tree some movement and it ends up being stronger and able to hold itself upright
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Interesting results with the chestnut trees Evan. Thanks for the video
You are doing good. Thumbs up.
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thank you for sharing ,good luck , looking good
It would be interested to see a comparison between tubes and caged and munched around trees.
I just use like four feet tall green wire fencing in a circle and use 4 tent spikes to keep it in the ground, that way it grows the same rate as your tube trees but stands on its own because its trunk is thicker
Good content it appears you have a moisture problem you might want to consider mulching with Wood Chips
They grow fast! And blight resistant! Thanks science!
You should do a test, leaving some in pots with no tubes but protected from wildlife, maybe add some fertiliser to those trees too.
i'm in Australia, so none of that dreadful blight i don't think. Three years ago I got a Bouche de Betizac grafted chestnut tree which is going alright, plus I grew two trees from nuts I purchased at a market. They have become really beautiful young trees - lush, healthy, excellent form. Better than the glamour named variety! Good luck - I hope you can get your native chestnuts to thrive. PS If I were you I'd remove all that grass from around those young trees. Grass is a very fierce competitor for water and nutrients. Look up grass root systems - you'll be shocked..
KEEP the blight out of your country!!! LOL Grafted trees are a good way to have a consistent nut crop in taste and size but chestnuts suffer from grafting more than other orchard trees. These Dunstan Chestnuts are open pollinated so far as I know so they’re hardier, but inconsistent in form and nut quality. I’ve started some nuts from the breeding program of the American Chestnut Foundation and they should go in this fall at the edge of the woods to benefit wildlife. These trees are good for deer food plots, but are~75% Chinese/American Hybrids so won’t be able to compete as wild trees in our forests 😔
Is there a feed nutrient that you can put down on those that are struggling too help them grow? Sound like the soil need some kind of amendments to give the trees the needed food to grow. Keep on trucking your results are great so far.
That's great...I've had about 60 Chestnut seeds in my refrigerator for about 3 months getting ready to plant. I thought they had to be about 50' apart because of their size. Do you plan on moving them or thinning them out? What about mulch around the base so it's not competing with the tall grass. I don't think too much of those grow tubes...The wind without it will strengthen the trunk. I think if I used a tube, I would top the tree to force strength back to the trunk. Thank you for the informative video!
Beautiful chestnut trees. How are they doing now? Thank you.
thanks for sharing. just wondering if you werent testing to plant a tree , two or so without the cubes, as "the control" speciment or whatever they call it in experiments and studies.
Enjoying the video. It would be helpful if you mention where you are located.
Very nice chestnut orchards. I have three questions for you if you please. 1. Do you fertilize your chestnut tree? 2. Why do you allow the grass/vegetation to grow near the seedlings? 3. Do you prune the chestnut trees?
Many thx,
Dave
Try planting the seeds in the tree shelters and use weed mats .I have had a Dunstan Chestnut grow out of a 5 ft shelter the first season .It produced nuts just 4 years after it was a nut .Direct seeding gets the tap root deeper faster than transplanting from pots .
Absolutely, I always grow my trees straight into the ground, they are way bigger than ones I start in pots so I don't bother now with transplanting. I've found wherever the tap root emerges, should be it's permanent home for a good strong tree.
@@angelkotilainen so how do you do that?? i would like to get some going on my place and i tend to agree with them sprouting where they will live....i have seeds coming now....help me out with your method and i will give it a try
@@keithsams4301 You have to protect the chestnut seed from digging animals. Above, Wm Johnson says he uses tree shelters and weed mats- the mat would help keep animals from digging. And check your trees every few days. Even if a tree gets dug around, you may be able to save it if the hole is filled and watered. Raccoons, opossums and squirrels will do a lot of digging for that nut, several nights in a row.
Thanks for being honest,we don’t see that to much nowadays.
I'm planting 30 hybrid chestnut trees on my property in wv this spring for the deer
I'd like to say (I didn't read the comments 1st but watched the video through to the end): it'd be easier to cut the tree tube hot "dog style" and take off/reattach as needed
So these are third leaf trees? Also, I buy from CR and grow them for a year in Root Pouches then plant them in the fall - I find if I spray glyphosate (very carefully) in a 3ft circle once enough weeds grow up to create a thatch, they grow better since there’s no water/nutrient competition.
Pretty cool. I'm planning to do some nut trees on our place, but chestnuts aren't one of them because of our climate (North Florida). I'm hoping to perhaps do some pecan trees and we already have a lot of hickory trees producing nuts. Some would be for harvest and some would be for wildlife. As I've said often, you give me some very good ideas.
I actually have a lot of hickory trees on our property too. Squirrels love them.
There are several chestnut orchards in northeast Florida. Try Dustan Variety.
@@oldsailor8593 Great information to know. Thanks!
I am enjoying this channel!!Crazy about all nut trees!!!
Hi this is really amazing... Chestnuts trees will also give alot of fresh air.. Good work. I really like your farm. Hope to see an update video when they grew and bear fruit.... Chest nuts are really delicious.
I have several more to plant this year. I will hopefully be doing that soon.
@@CountryViewAcres Any video updates?
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So when do you put the tree tube on? putting a 5 foot tube on a plant much shorter would deny it all sunlight to grow wouldn't it ?
I watch almost all your videos and enjoy your channel. Question: why did you decide to focus on chestnut trees? Maybe you explained that in a video I missed
Mainly for deer hunting, but you can also sell chestnuts or feed them pigs.
Does it damage the roots/trees when you pull out the metal t-posts?
Are you growing for habitat? And what spacing are you using for your trees. Thanks..
Hi Evan, i was just wondering if you have any concern about chestnut blight. love your farm and videos thank you
These trees are blight resistant. Blight could kill them when they are young. I actually sprayed my new trees with copper fungicide this year. Not sure if it will help, but it is worth a try.
Thank you! Great you are planting American Chestnut! Deer got the ones I planted which were not in tubes😡
Just to be clear… Dunstan Chestnuts are NOT American Chestnuts! They’re a hybrid that’s ~75% Chinese. They’re excellent in a food plot for deer and for human use age, but they can never fill the spot in the forest the way wild trees did.
I’ve had better luck caging chestnuts rather than tubing them. How are your chestnuts doing this year?
May I ask what is your white tube made of?
Do you have chestnut fruit when you planted it from fruit? And if after how many years, you have a child, and the fruit is a decent size, not small? Greeting
What is your seed source? Chance of blight impacts? Why not create some diversity in your tree plantings?
How are they now? It’s been 5 years
I purchased a couple pounds of chestnuts last Dec. from the grocery store for eating. I decided to try growing 10 seeds so I put them in the fridge to see what happens. I checked them yesterday and noticed that some are starting to sprout. I was trying to figure out how to identify the type of tree they're going to be. All I can tell you about them is they were sold as a product of Italy. Would that mean they're European chestnuts?
How.often you watering the trees in.summer ?
you gotta put mulch around the trees to kill the grass so waters easier to get
How are these trees doing now?
one idea... why u dont use tubes that are cut in one side all the way s that they can be removed horizontally so that they will be easily removable and as far as i can imagine , reusable
are these the edible chestnuts or not?
What is mortality due to dutch elm?
How do I go about acquiring one of your chestnut trees. I'm an arborist of 30 years
Somewhere on youtube someone said, chestnuts did not do well in grow tubes. So, I removed my tubes. They were apparently wrong. Anyway, I removed my tubes and put woven wire around them for protection. I have used the same tubes you use. The problem I have is something crumples them up making them useless. I'm pretty sure the culprit is racoons. I've never had a tube stay intact for more that 2 or 3 years. Has anyone else had this problem?
I have only had deer try to rub on them and lift them up or push them over.
Whare did you get the tubes. Thanks jim80
Hi . A second question . Once the branches & leaves are above the tubes have the deer figured out , they can now get at the foliage? The reason I'm asking these questions is . I'm growing sugar maples from seed . & at this current time our deer population is very high. Where to access tubes ? Thanks .
To keep deer off you are better off using fencing. Deer can reach 6 feet up but putting bunting flags will put them off.
Are you sure these aren't planted way too close to each other? Good looking trees!
They are probably close. But I want for of a grove of trees than an orchard.
Are those black walnuts surrounding those trees your having problems with. The walnuts will give you problems
Curious, when you plant the trees, how often do you water them? I need to plant some, but my concern is living 30 minutes from where I live.
I got trees growing in wv 5 hours away from where I live..I let mother nature take care of them
What's up with the hay?
Where do you get the tree tubes?
wouldn'tthey grow better with fertilizer on them?
where did you get your tree tubes?
That’s a really interesting project! Is that one of those third generation hybrids you are planting? Hopefully one day they will spread naturally into the surrounding woods!
Klaus
What is a tree shelter?
My experience is this ,do not use plastic tub. Put wire cage around, this way the trees growing much healthier the trunk of the tree growing proportionally to the year. I found out it also have fungos were the tree dos not get air.Take my advice I did try it it dos not work like it advertised.
I hope you've found a better source of chestnuts. Dunstans are fine, but way over-sold. You can get trees with more American chestnut form and more reliable blight resistance.
I have a buddy who planted a bunch of Dunstans and now he finds that the people who buy chestnuts for eating don't want them. The problem stems from them using trees that had bad flavor in their breeding program when they were developing the blight resistance. He is in the process of grafting them over to good tasting varieties. The wildlife will enjoy them, but just a word of caution if the goal is for human consumption.
bonjour , what about the tree on the barn and the hay field.
The tree on the barn should get cut down Friday. The hay field is doing good, it is all nice and green
Roman roads were marked with chestnuts & walnuts
doesnt the tube suffocate the tree growing leaves?
The tube has ventilation holes in it.
Evan can you use these tree tubes on any seedling tree's?
Yes. They act like individual greenhouses, giving the trees protection.
Question can you just put the seed that started to germinate in the ground and put the tube over it then let the nature take its course I don't know I was just wondering if anyone's done that
Squirrels will try to eat the nuts. They would probably dig them out from the tube. I tried putting the in my garden beds to start some. And Squirrels dug them all up.
@@CountryViewAcres okay thank you very much
Where did you access the tree grow tubes ? Thank you
i bought them off amazon. Miracle grow tubes I think.
Where can I get a good deal on Chestnut seeds for planting ?
I buy mine from chestnut ridge of pike county Illinois. The sell online seasonally around october/November. They may be sold out now.
Where did you get your chestnuts ? I want to buy some .
I buy them from chestnut ridge of pike county Illinois. They sell them around October each year.
How is the hay field going Evan?
The hay field is doing good. Should have another video soon.
How long before, from seedling, before they produce?
From what I hear, they will start producing around 7 years old.
@@CountryViewAcres thanks😊
Not sure I’d use the tree tubes. I’d keep them longer in nursery pots where they can be protected till they can be planted out.
I had 3 out of 4 chestnuts to die with tubes on them several years ago. The fourth one was almost dead when I removed the tube. It is doing well today. I believe mold inside tube killed the three trees. It was very wet with mold inside tube.
I’ve had bad luck with tubes. Several died with tubes on them. One was almost dead when I removed the tube. It’s doing well today. When I removed the tube, it was molded inside tube.
I’ve had bad luck with tubes. Several died with tubes on them. One was almost dead when I removed the tube. It’s doing well today. When I removed the tube, it was molded inside tube.
I’ve had bad luck with tubes. Several died with tubes on them. One was almost dead when I removed the tube. It’s doing well today. When I removed the tube, it was molded inside tube.
I’ve had bad luck with tubes. Several died with tubes on them. One was almost dead when I removed the tube. It’s doing well today. When I removed the tube, it was molded inside tube.
Leaving the tubes on once the trees reach the top is a mistake. As you will find out when you eventually take them off. You would be better fencing the trees from the deer.
I'm surprised you have growing trees. It seems many hybreds are sterile. It's good to see the chestnut coming back.
Do you furtive your trees?
These trees are too close to each anther. I ordered 12 plants and they will come in few weeks. I need chestnuts for my honey bees farm, and I am planning to be selling some chestnuts. Here is 1lb around $10 to $15.
Are you selling the trees when they get bigger??
No, I have just sold saplings.
can I buy dunstan chestnuts seeds from you?
They look like they some fertilizer.
Yea, I think you're right. I was thinking of fertilizing tonight. I planted most of my new trees a couple days ago. So I would just fertilize all the trees.
Having 100 trees will help you if you can sell them(the chestnutsj
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I would have planted half that many and weedmat or mulched and had twice the growth and health, they are neglected and it shows! 😞
I cant believe you ran over a poor little helpless tree... oh wait, yes I can, you punched a goat!....just joking...what will you do with the chestnuts? Roast them over an open fire?? ...😁