We hand pollenate our best flowers with our best pollen that will hopefully produce some outstanding hazelnut prodigies for our region.   It is extra effort on our part as we bag whole branches of our best mother tree late winter and collect pollen from our best trees and store them until pollination season is over and then hand pollenate each flower.  We are selling a portion of our most precious crosses in our continuing effort to establish a hazelnut (and chestnut) industry throughout the region.  We are selling them in groups of 5, 10 and 25 only.  You need enough trees for local comparison.   We cross only blight resistant trees that have an outstanding trait of either high production, nut quality or extreme hardiness.  In conjunction we are taking a portion of the proceeds to help fund our formation of the New York Tree Crops Alliance Cooperative (NYTCA Coop) to process and sell our nut crops.  We only ask that you allow us to take scions and or suckers from trees that you find exceptional for continual improvement of hazelnuts.  To learn more about establishing a hazelnut orchard go to this blog link and click on the presentation.

 Good for Zone 4b and warmer.  These are shipped as bare root.  T   We will ship from bare root this spring.   Tublings are typically 12"-20" tall. We cannot ship to Canada or any state on the west coast.

Colossal is a hybrid of sativa X crenata.  This is the main tree currently grown for commercial production from Michigan to Maine and throughout the West Coast and it is the reference that all other trees are judged by.  It is very cold hardy to -20F and produces very large nuts at 10-13 nuts per pound.  It can suffer bud damage during very cold winters but quickly recovers and will set nuts.  This tree blooms early and ripens nuts early.  Sets nuts at a young age and can even have branches break under the weight of the nuts.  Most nuts fall free from the bur.  Not considered blight or root rot resistant.  You need an early season pollinizer as this tree is pollen sterile. Our chestnut seedlings will pollinate Colossal. 

We are proud to be the first nursery to be able to ship tissue cultured chestnut trees.  Tissue cultured chestnut trees often produce nuts the year after you plant them with good care, we recommend that you wait till year two. 

Shipped spring bare root .   Tree height is 8" to 20+" tall. 

Please make sure you have well drained soil and proper pH before purchasing chestnuts.  Tissue culture chestnuts are new and we have much to learn.  Please purchase only if you are an experienced chestnut grower and are willing to take the risk.   They are shipped  when ready. We cannot ship to Canada or the west coast states or where chestnut gall wasp quarantines exist.

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Chinese chestnut is desired for its hardiness, disease resistance and of course their nuts.  You can eat fresh or make your own gluten free deliciously sweet flour.  The nuts fall free to the ground.  All you have to do is pick them up.

These are from locally grown and adapted Chinese chestnut trees on our farm.  So you know if they can grow at  our windy elevation of USDA zones 4B/5A they will grow in yours.  Try in zones 4a.  1 year old seedlings are on average 16/30" tall currently.  When mature at 25 years they are about 25 to 30 feet tall and 25 feet wide, with a round form as shown.

These are tasty sweet nuts!

Shipped bare root this spring.  You need two trees for pollination. Cannot ship to the west coast or where chestnut gall wasps quarantines exist. We do not have chestnut gall wasps in our area.

We ship bare root in the spring.