Bonnet Farm Orchard
This orchard was founded in 2005 and culled in 2015. Sixteen selected trees remain for seed production.
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The final culling of this orchard was completed in 2015, and the following 16 trees in five lines remain for open pollination and seed production. These remaining trees were selected for blight resistance and American chestnut characteristics (tall and straight). Seed from these trees were planted in our seed orchard in 2015 and 2016.
Corrigans – Numbers 67, 79, 175, 194, 207, 320
State Gamelands – Number 106
SE 831 – Number 19
Peters 32A – Numbers 277, 400, 423
Prowell 35A – Numbers 165, 267, 382, 383, 426
Original planting below:
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Just a few years apart: the same wild American chestnut tree before and after chestnut blight took its toll.
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I have had these on the farm for years
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From looking at the leaves that is NOT an American chestnut. The leaves do not have the good fishhook profile on the edges, and from what can see they look like Japanese chestnut leaves which have small feathery edges.
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You don't find out if the tree is resistant until it matures. That could be a decade later.
I am always amazed how big you all can grow them in 1 year. That is how big my second year seed8 gs always are!