Re: [nafex] sterile chestnuts

["Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>]

I also now of chestnut growers who have planted Collossal without Nevada 
that have never had nuts.
     Gordon
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I haven't checked the catkins that closely to see if they produce any
pollen.  I've never seen nuts or signs of female flowers.
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 >From: Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>
 >To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
 >Subject: Re: [nafex] sterile chestnuts
 >Date: Sat, Apr 14, 2001, 5:34 PM
 >

 >If it has catkins, I wouldn't call it sterile.  Maybe "male".  It
 >doesn't sound like a star pollinator, though.
 >
 >Has anyone heard of a female chestnut?
 >
 >"Lon J. Rombough" wrote:
 >>
 >> I have a good number of chestnuts on my place, all seedlings, with all 
four
 >> main species represented in the genes.  However, I have a "Colossal"
 >> seedling that is apparently sterile.  It is more than 15 years old and 
has
 >> been producing catkins (though not many) for at least half that time.  
There
 >> is such a mix of chestnuts in the area I can't believe SOMETHING 
wouldn't
 >> pollinate it, but I'm not sure I've even ever seen female flowers on it, 
let
 >> alone a single bur or nut.  Knowing the mixed ancestry of the variety, 
I'm
 >> not suprised that a seedling of it might be sterile, depending on how 
the
 >> genes reassorted, but I was wondering how common such sterile trees are.
 >> Any information on that out there?
 >> -Lon Rombough
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