![]() ![]() ![]() The nuts are large and very flavorful - one of our favorite eating nuts. It does not have the orchard type growth pattern common in many Chinese chestnut trees. Like Kintzel, Jenny is a vigorous tall tree with a very erect growth pattern and unusually large leaves. Kintzel is discussed in a 1962 NNGA Nutshell article. Jenny- is an open pollinated seedling of the old Ohio cultivar Kintzel. mollisima tree with large nuts grown by the late Verne Luvall in Galesburg, Illinois. Easy peeling Chinese type nut with good flavor. Szego was known for his generosity in providing others with nuts, scion wood, and advice.Īce – American, Chinese and European genetics. The tree is named after New York NNGA member Al Szego, who worked with many types of hybrid chestnuts before passing away in 1991. It has been growing for more than nine years in many blighted areas with some signs of blight but blight has not killed it and does not seem to materially damage its productivity. It does have some blight resistance but the extent is not yet fully known. The tree is resistant to phytophthora root rot. The nuts drop mid season (2-3 weeks after Colossal) and store very well. Nuts are sweet and flavorful, generally with more flavor than pure Chinese nuts. Nuts are uniformly large (12-16 per lb), but easy peeling and fairly dense, much like a Chinese nut. It grafts well on Chinese trees, Chinese hybrids, Japanese hybrids and European hybrids. Szego is a very vigorous and erect tree, far more vigorous than the average Chinese tree. The pollen parent of Szego may be the Dunstan hybrid, Revival. Szego is a very complex hybrid, a seedling of the California hybrid, Linden (which may be a seedling of Essate), and appears to be predominantly Crenata/Pumila. These trees are productive and hardy in Zone 5. Brain has been growing and selecting trees for over 35 years. West Danby Hybrids -These seed come from the orchard of Brian Caldwell in West Danby NY. We do not ship Chestnuts to CA, WA, OR, FL, MI, LA due to quarantine restrictionsĬhestnut Seedlings from Cultivars- Descriptions and Some Notes It is not complete! I will continue to add more details as time allows! A google search will yield some info about many of them,As always, email me with any questions you might have, with thanks -Buzz I have started posting a list with more details of all these parent cultivars. Most of these are hybrids, with good to excellent blight resistance. A good chance that many of these will make excellent trees. In Zone 5 and up they will all do very well.Īll the trees we grow are sourced from great orchards and collections where the pollen parent is of high quality. Sometimes they burn back a little, but they recover quickly. These have been through two winters in the ground. I don’t offer for sale any trees that have not been through at least one winter in the ground successfully. I have been assembling an ever growing list of Chestnut seedlings that will grow in Zone 4, and of course much farther south. ![]()
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