True Root Nursery

Sweet Chestnut Seedling Bareroot

Species: Castanea dentata x mollissima

History: These seedlings are a cross between Chinese chestnuts and American chestnuts grown from seed from Grimo Nut Nursery. As a hybrid of Chinese and American chestnuts, these seedlings have blight resistance along with good cold hardiness. 

Why We Grow It: This tree has incredible potential as a truly sustainable food source for humans. High in vitamins and starch, the nuts can be used to make a flour food staple, or pressed for oil to be made into bio fuel. For more inspiration and ideas in growing sweet chestnuts as a crop, we recommend the book Restoration Agriculture: Real-World Permaculture for Farmers by Mark Shepard.

 

$30.00

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Fruit Traits:

Recommended Use: Fresh eating, cooking, baking, pressing into biofuel

Fruit Size: Medium

Storage: Fresh chestnuts keep about three weeks and keep for much longer if frozen

Harvest: November

Tree Traits:

Canadian Hardiness Zone: 5

Soil Preferance: Prefer well-drained, deep, sandy soils that are more acidic

Flowering Time:

Pollination Requirements: Requires another chestnut tree for pollination in order to produce nuts

Sun/Shade Requirements: Full sun (approx. 8-10 hours of sun daily)

General Growth Habit: Tree reaches 15m tall, upright growth habit. Resistant to chestnut blight.

Shipping: Every year we ship thousands of plants across Canada. We carefully bag roots in damp sawdust, then box them and send them out via courier. CLICK HERE to see our shipping policy.

Pick-up: We also have thousands of trees picked up from our nursery each year. The pick-up options is free, though you must wait until you have been emailed a confirmation that your order is ready to pick up, which will have further information such as hours, locations, etc.

Un-grafted plants (berries, seedlings and vines) are graded by year. We follow industry standard. Species specific details will soon be updated to give you a clearer idea of size, as there can be a very large variation by species.

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