In mid-March, about a dozen individuals gathered at the West Virginia University greenhouse to pot 350 germinating nuts provided by the TACF’s Meadowview staff. The nuts were in perfect shape, packaged neatly in small plastic bags. The nuts were potted in standard 6″ pots with Pro-Mix potting soil containing mycorrhizae. After 3 weeks, sprouts began to appear and it was obvious that about 80 of the 350 nuts failed to produce a shoot. Whether the failure to produce a shoot was due, in part, to the 80% peat content of the potting mix (providing too much moisture) or the genetics of the nuts is unknown. Two months following potting, most seedlings produced a nice, healthy shoot. However, there were a number of nuts that produced only a tooth-pick size shoots.
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- Disparity in height after 2 months
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- Sprouted chestnut
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- Chestnuts at 4-weeks
