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grafting chestnuts

24 years ago

I have horse chestnuts and was wonder if one can graft an edible chestnut to the horse chestnut successfully

Would appreciate any information on this particular guestion

Thanks

Terry Crossie

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bobthomasson_compuserve_com
24 years ago
Terry,

Although horse chestnuts are called "chestnuts" they are not related to "regular" chestnuts and a graft won't work.

Bob
martyc
24 years ago
Read about a guy that cross-pollentate chestnuts in the book Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver.
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hendy
23 years ago
In this book..L'art de greffer p.266...ref..Jardin botanique de Dijon... we used Quercus robur like rootstock for chestnut(Castanea)..I have some littles trees(Quercus robur) and I want try..
hendy

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