Chestnut Seed ,, SHIPPING INCLUDED
Chestnut Seed ,, SHIPPING INCLUDED
ALL SEED HAS BEEN IN STRATIFICATION SINCE IT WAS COLLECTED,
WE WILL SHIP AS THE WEATHER ALLOWS
SHIPPING INCLUDED WITH PURCHASE- WE ARE HAPPY TO SHIP YOUR SEED IN MULTIPLE PACKAGES! with cold weather here we will ship as weather allows,
It is my plan to create a list of the seed and descriptions of the tree and nuts! It will not happen until mid/late November, as there is way too much for a small nursery owner to accomplish outside in air and out of the office. Winter will move me inside soon!!! In the meantime , many of these seed can be googled on the interweb for information. As always thanks to everyone who supports our work here.. it is literally a dream come true!
We work diligently each year to assemble the best selections of seed nuts available. We plant most of these selections here on farm to grow out as seedlings for sale as well.
Over the years so many people have asked for seed to grow , so now we gather and buy extra. We try very hard to get the best seed and work obsessively to keep the provenance straight and the quality high.
We do not ship Chestnuts to CA, WA, OR, FL, LA due to quarantine restrictions
A few of the 2024 offering here are from Lockwood Farm in Hamden, CT. Many trees in Hamden were planted in the 1930’s. Some of the NH (New Hybrids) crosses offered here are from the work of Dr. Sandra Anagnostakis in the early 2000’s. They are amazing and beautiful nuts and trees. I hope as the grafts continue to grow here on our farm there will be more seed available. Here is the link to the document which has descriptions of the crosses, Lockwood Farm Chestnuts.
Other seed comes Iowa, New York, Missouri, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Vermont, all should be quite hardy. The Chinese Orchard Mix XL are also very good seed.
Many more people are interested in growing chestnuts, so the price for high quality seed nuts is rapidly rising, this is a good thing for the farmers producing chestnut seed. I buy in much of the seed from great orchards around the country and am happy to pay for the high quality seed!!
A word about weevils! I have noted which seed might have weevils (very few this year), we do our best to hold the seed long enough for weevils to emerge, and to eliminate any seed with weevils, however, you still might find weevils in chestnut seed. Destroy any that emerge during winter storage. Most seed will still grow as the weevils eat the cotyledons and not the embryo!
Take them out a week before planting and allow the to warm up, very occasionally you will find a weevil emerging in spring. If you don't have weevils in your are already, don’t buy any any of these seed!
New Seed Mother Trees this year-
‘Gimli’ is a cross of ‘King Arthur’ x ‘Lockwood’ very large nuts
Any offering with PCF in it means it was growm here in zone 4b, we have a lot of grafts and badass seedlings coming on line..
Al Szego Dwarf is a very interesting dwarf tree bred by Alfred Szego and growing in CT. A complex hybrid that just cranks out the nuts every tear!
‘Madison’ is a sibling of "‘Little Giant’. A small orchard style tree with small but very sweet nuts. A prolific bearing tree in my observations.
Chinese Orchard MIxis a mix of XL nuts from the orchards i visit, or sent to me from other growers. They are predominantly Chinese genetics, with Orchard style tree form. Roughly 30-45 nuts to the pound
‘Qing’ is one of my favorite chinese types with very large and tasty nuts. Most likely a hybrid with chinkapin. Very hardy in zone 4
‘Royalmark’ is a really nice Chinese and European hybrid orchard tree selected by Richard Winkel at Winkel Chestnut Farm in Central Michigan. Productive, large and delicious. limited supply this year!
‘Eaton’ a great tree from Ct Ag Experimental Station. mollissima x (crenata x dentata) . Large delicious nuts 30 or so to the lb.
‘Précoce Migoule’ the nuts from this tree are one of my favorites.. crenata x sativa , still determining if this one will be hardy enough for zone 4, but for you zone 5 and warmer folks this is a great choice.
‘Lockwood’ huge complex hybrid nuts, 30-40 grams per nut is usual. Looks and peels like most Japanese nuts. The tree looks like a giant bonsai, just the loveliest form. Likely pollinized by pure Americans or Chinese.
Pandora Pandora - (C. mollisima x C. Sequin) x Burbank Stump Sprout. Medium size nuts with great flavor, big dark nuts
Sweet Homestead seedling.. as the name says!
Sleeping Giant Seedling a seedling of one of my favorite trees, Sleeping Giant is a CJA hybrid. These seedlings had pire Chinese fathers!
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