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Chinese Chestnut Progress Report: 40 days of growth

A customer has been sending me photos about every three weeks showing the progress of one of his Chinese chestnut trees.  This tree was purchased and planted this past spring (2014) as a 20″ tall seedling from Mossy Oak’s Nativ … Continue reading

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Exploding chestnuts

A customer has been sending me a photo every time one of the Nativ Nurseries Chinese chestnut seedlings he planted this past spring emerges from a 4ft tree tube. Well, “emerges” isn’t the word he uses.  His text said, “Another … Continue reading

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Chinese chestnuts in tree tubes: “Another one popped out today”

The customer who send me the sequence of photos shown in the previous post sent me another text last week:  “Another one popped out today.”  These are Chinese chestnuts from Mossy Oak’s Nativ Nurseries, planted in spring 2014 and protected … Continue reading

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Chinese chestnut in a tree tube

I love getting photos that customers take looking down a tree tube and tracking the progress of a seedling over time.  The only problem is that the tree tends to grow out the top of the tube so quickly that … Continue reading

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Tree Tubes: Chinese chestnuts produced in 3rd season since germination!

I have seen a lot of amazing growth in tree tubes in the 25 years that  I have been working with them, but this is astounding even to me… but it shows you what is possible… and how we have … Continue reading

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A Day Well Spent – Planting Trees & Installing Tree Tubes

Email from a customer today: Spent 6 hrs planting 100 Pine trees & 25 chestnuts. The tree tubes and stakes worked great and we found direct sunlight areas to plant the chestnuts! As a bonus we had some good rains … Continue reading

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Old Home Week

I love spring.  There are so many – an ever increasing number – of guys (and gals) that call me every spring to order tree tubes.  (I always say I have two kinds of customers:  Repeat customers and customers who … Continue reading

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