There was a guy at Virginia Tech that was working on hypervirulent strains of the blight and growing trees having that strain. apparently it out competes the regular strain of the blight, but does not cause death of the chestnut. i think his name was Dr. Jay Stipes.
Has anyone heard of this, and could possibly shed more light on it?
Horsechestnut is commonly referred to as 'buckeye' down here in VA.
I think the Chinese chestnut would make a great wildlife tree. I think they're dioceous though, so one would need both male and female trees to make any fruit. A buddy of mine is planting some chinese chestnut and chinese sawtooth oak for wildlife. The chinese sawtooth's acorns are about the size of golf balls...
ahh... the sight of American (mostly anyway) chestnuts in the woods would be welcome!!! I've seen a few, but nothing bigger than about 4 in dbh.
