american chestnut trees (Manchester, Farmington: for sale, Home Depot, where to buy)
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If you don't know, chestnut trees used to make about 25% of the trees in NH, but blight destroyed them about 70 years ago. Now new blight resistant versions are becoming available. Last year (maybe 2 years ago - Home Depot had them). Anyone know of where I can purchase small american chestnut trees here in NH?
No I don't. Elms went out in the same way..... Every so often you find a 'Slippery Elm, but it won't be doing well. I'ld like to know if you find chestnut trees for sale. I can live with out elm, more or less. Elm will be missed if horse drawn buggies ever make a come back though..
I don't know where to buy them in NH, but you can become a member of The American Chestnut Foundation which qualifies you to buy (via mail) their new potentially blight resistant seeds. Annual Sponsor Membership seed distribution
If I had the space, I would certainly join to get a few seeds myself.
The American chestnut tree was an important species in NH. It's real stranglehold was in the Appalachian Mountain states, where it comprised a much larger population and was a source of revenue and food for lots of folks. An integral part of their society and economy.
Native chestnut trees can still be found around NH, though usually sapling to pole sized only. These trees are still sprouting and growing off the old route system of the original larger trees, now long gone. Once the thin-skinned early bark starts to fissure from the growing process, the blight is able to get in to the cambium and start to kill the tree again. I have seen some in the 6-8 inch diameter look perfectly healthy and a 10 inch example starting to decline from the blight.
The ACF has taken the American Chestnut and crossed it with an Asian version to get the blight resistance. It has back-crossed it so that what they are selling is 15/16 American Chestnut with blight resistance. Not truly the tree of old but as close as we will ever see. I look forward, someday, to walking though a stand of mature chestnut. It will \be many years from now but I will do it.
There's a method of using mud packs on the cankers to keep chestnuts alive. It gets difficult when the tree is big though...
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