Yes, you can grow chestnut trees in Southern California

You can grow chestnuts in Southern California. You will need to incorporate lots of compost and gypsum in the soil prior to ...
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Growing Chestnut Tree From Seed Time Lapse (165 Days)

This time-lapse shows the cold-stratified process and how a chestnut tree growing from a seed to a young plant. We started ...
The Washington Post

Strengthening the Chestnut's Family Tree

THE TROUBLE began in 1904, at the Bronx Zoo: Specimens of Asian chestnut trees, resistant to blight, quickly passed the fungus to their American counterparts up and down the East Coast, moving from ...
Yahoo

Blight-resistant chestnut seeds set in soil in Cressona orchard

CRESSONA — Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American chestnut tree. Early Friday morning, a team of volunteers dropped ...
LAist

American Chestnut Trees

The American chestnut tree, or číhtkęr in Tuscarora, once grew across what is currently the eastern United States, from Mississippi to Georgia, and into southeastern Canada. Now, a transgenic version ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

UNH’s chestnut trees may not repopulate forests. But they’re still helping the effort.

At the Kingman Research Farm just outside of the University of New Hampshire campus, there’s an orchard of chestnut trees, growing under the watchful eyes of researchers. The American chestnut was a ...
The Roanoke Times

Park planting to highlight plight of the chestnut blight

BLACKSBURG — A group of fourth graders went home on Wednesday afternoon a little messier than they were when they left home that morning. About 50 kids helped town officials and members of the ...