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Bulk prices will automatically be applied.
If you have placed orders totaling at least $1,200 at Fedco within
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Scionwood order
deadline:
February 21, 2025
Priority fulfillment
deadline for trees:
March 7, 2025
Final order deadline for trees:
mid-spring, when we run out of stock
Orders placed on or before March 7 will ship around
March 26 through late April, starting with warmer areas and finishing in
colder areas.
Orders placed after March 7 will ship around late
April
through early-to-mid May, in the order in which they were received.
Sorry, we cannot expedite these orders, add to existing orders or
combine orders.NOTE: Scionwood and early rootstock orders ship around March
10.
Our native chestnut, fast growing and straight trunked with a wide-branching magnificent rounded crown. Precocious, bearing heavy crops of nuts in 10 years. The arrow-straight rot-resistant wood was once used for everything from mine timbers to musical instruments.
In July 2015, the tallest American chestnut in North America was discovered right here in Lovell, Maine by researchers who spotted the profuse white blossoms from the air. The trees we offer are not immune to chestnut blight but are likely to thrive in a suitable site for 10-30 years.
Prefers loamy well-drained acidic soil and full sun. Two or more needed for pollination but will cross-pollinate with Asian, European and hybrid chestnuts. From each American chestnut purchase, Fedco will donate $3 to support the American Chestnut Foundation Maine Chapter's traditional breeding program. Z4. Maine Grown. (2–4' bare-root trees)
Delicious sweet chestnuts are an important food for both humans and wildlife. Use them for roasting, stuffing and soups, or dry them to make flour for baked goods. The tree’s profuse fragrant white blossoms feed the pollinators. Lustrous dark green foliage is ribbed and sharp-toothed. Yellow fall color.
Before 1900 the American chestnut was one of the most important deciduous trees in the eastern U.S. Chestnut blight showed up in Brooklyn, NY, in 1904; within 50 years it killed virtually every chestnut tree in the eastern U.S. The blight does not kill the roots however, and rare stands of stump sprouts can still be found. Hybrid chestnuts and Chinese chestnuts are resistant to blight
Chestnuts prefer loamy well-drained acidic soil and full sun. Two or more needed for pollination and all three chestnuts we’re offering this year will cross-pollinate with each other.
Nuts
The nut seedlings we’re offering are grown from nuts harvested from the most productive specimens. Like all seedlings, each one is a little different, and nut quality may vary.
