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American chestnut seeds available from GA-TACF

NOTE: We have allocated all of the seeds from the 2023 seed crop!  We hope to run this promotion again next year (January 2025).

Special offer for new or renewing GA-TACF members

If you join TACF, renew a lapsed membership, or renew early plus add a donation of at least $25 to the Georgia Chapter (GA-TACF), we will send you a packet of 10 pure American chestnut seeds* along with planting and care instructions. To take advantage of this offer, please:

1) Email us at GAChapter@tacf.org to confirm that seeds are still available. We will get back to you right away and reserve a seed packet for you.

2) Join or renew with TACF with at least the $40 regular annual membership fee and add a $25 extra donation to The GA Chapter of TACF. The link to join and donate is: https://support.tacf.org/membership After adding your regular membership, click Continue Shopping to add the donation to GA-TACF.

3) When joining or renewing, please fill in the “Special Note” section of the payment page saying that you would like to receive a packet of seeds from GA-TACF.

This offer is limited to seed availability (first come, first served) and will expire March 1, 2024 or once this year’s seed supply runs out.

If you are unable to take advantage of this offer, TACF has several long-standing programs that enable members to obtain chestnut seeds or seedlings. See https://tacf.org/american-chestnut-seeds-and-seedlings/

*Pure American chestnut seeds will mostly be from source trees from the state of Georgia. They do not carry significant blight or Phytophthora root rot resistance. That said, when planted in the right location and properly cared for, they are capable of growing into adult trees with the potential to flower and bear nuts. If they reach that condition, the trees may be very useful to GA-TACF for future breeding purposes.

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Just a quick note that we will have a chestnut seedling distribution event at River Remedy Brewing in Rome on Thursday Nov 21, 5 - 8 pm. Details to follow soon, but save the date!

We will be handing out fire-roasted chestnuts, accepting memberships, and will have pure species and hybrid chestnut seedlings available in exchange for donations to The Georgia Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation.

Again, details to follow!

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We want to thank our volunteers for the fine effort given over the past two days. Including Berry College students, we had 20 different volunteers put in a total of 85 person/hrs on our small stem assay project. That’s more than two weeks work in 2 days! The data look good and we have the seedlings sorted out and back in the nursery where students watered them today.
Again, many thanks for the great work. We hope that the volunteers learned a few things while gaining some appreciation of the difficult task of breeding for blight resistance. A parallel study using the same family lines is being evaluated at UT Chattanooga this week, and the data from the two studies will be combined for data analysis. We will let everyone know what we learn from this project once the numbers are crunched and ready to be talked about! The American Chestnut Foundation
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We want to thank our volunteers for the fine effort given over the past two days.  Including Berry College students, we had 20 different volunteers put in a total of 85 person/hrs on our small stem assay project.  That’s more than two weeks work in 2 days!  The data look good and we have the seedlings sorted out and back in the nursery where students watered them today.
  Again, many thanks for the great work.  We hope that the volunteers learned a few things while gaining some appreciation of the difficult task of breeding for blight resistance.  A parallel study using the same family lines is being evaluated at UT Chattanooga this week, and the data from the two studies will be combined for data analysis.  We will let everyone know what we learn from this project once the numbers are crunched and ready to be talked about! The American Chestnut Foundation

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BTW - the photo shows a stem tip of a seedling that has been subjected to a small stem assay for blight resistance. Starting at the tip, we measure the full darkened zone as well as the orange-colored zone. The larger these values are the less resistance the seedling exhibits.

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