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Looking good. Chippies got some of them. Steve sent me some too. We’ll see if the SNE ones handle winter better than BNA. I got these from Sheffield’s, but I had to wait a year for the notification they were in stock. https://sheffields.com/seeds/Castanea/dentata Go Native trees has started trees in stock and sometimes seeds. I got germinated ones from them in spring of 2019 and saplings in 2018. I prefer the direct from seed method with these since they have such a deep taproot. If the regulations are progressing for the resistant trees you could wait it out a few years for those as well. Generally they want you to grow a pure non-GMO tree along with one of the eventual resistant ones so that they can fertilize each other and increase genetic diversity. Guess I’ll be going for the 6ft ones then. lol

I’m working on the Weymouth 2015 one right now.

I have to protect them from the voles and chippies too. I found that out the hard way the first time I tried it. I may try some of those 4-5ft tree tubes to train them going upward because my other chestnut trees are growing as much outward as upward since they have a wide open field. I'm afraid to prune them and introduce wounds.

Maybe all of yours fell in my yard.

35/22 Very -SN

22.5° this morning. Cool, but nothing insane for this time of year.

Yeah it must be the Darling named GMO trees then. I think they only had to change a few genes out of the 40k in the genome. The added gene produces oxalate oxidase (OxO) which neutralizes the oxalic acid that is produced by the blight fungus. So the fungus can actually exist on the trees without the acid being formed to kill it. And the gene is found naturally in wheat and bananas and other plants already. I think there's another marker gene in there for identifying which seeds actually have the resistant gene. So really it's like 99.999% or better. https://www.esf.edu/chestnut/about.asp Here's my seeds that came in. They are way smaller than the Chinese ones you can find in grocery stores right now.

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Nice. So these are the GMO "Darling" trees from Suny-ESF? As far as I know those weren't given the government approval yet, but maybe they know more than what has been publicly released yet. If so, that's awesome news. I actually purchased a bunch of seeds online this fall and I have them stratifying in the fridge now. Come spring I'll directly plant the seeds and let them freely root their taproot on their own. If anyone is around me and wants a few let me know.

Off next week. Bring it.

26.2F Too cold

40.8° with flakeage.

I guess we don’t care one iota.

What’s the coldest extremes you’ve experienced?

Lookin good

Yeah I think I have one that’s been f’ed up for awhile.

Heading for Danbury now with the tor warn.

I was in the 40-50 with a stray 50+ camp tyvm.

Yeah based on BML I figured you were getting some good downslope winds there considering the Presidentials in your southern backyard.

Your call from this morning? Yes.

This will be the fun zone.

DDH 53mph in downslope land.

I tried that yesterday for the first time in awhile and slightly tweaked my back. Later in the afternoon I pulled it worse than ever just walking to the coop. Heavy, heavy pain, but no pain relievers yet. I strangely feel better walking around in the yard trying to do stuff today, but as soon as I relax inside it's back to 8/10 pain. I guess the blood flow helps.

Yeah most likely. We’ve been seeing the evapo cooling in the mid levels today with these snow pellets and sleet making it to the ground despite 2m temps near 40°.

Weird. Have some mammatus just to my south with these snow pellets.