The sweet chestnuts I have seen have different trunks to that but they have been coppiced. I cant see the leaves very well still. Are the chestnuts in very prickly cases.?
Some wilder types only give small chestnuts. The french or chinese chestnuts that have large marrons are a particular variety.
So all Louise has to do to get chestnuts is to get another tree - Wiki says, "...All Castanea species readily hybridize with each other..." so it doesn't matter which variety she gets
There were lots of chestnut trees where I used to work - wonderful chestnuts every year - big fat ones
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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The sweet chestnuts I have seen have different trunks to that but they have been coppiced. I cant see the leaves very well still. Are the chestnuts in very prickly cases.?
Some wilder types only give small chestnuts. The french or chinese chestnuts that have large marrons are a particular variety.
Yes they're like balls of cactus spines. They look exactly like chestnut husks but the chestnut is tiny. They're not round and firm, they feel hollow.
Assuming it is a sweet chestnut, what might I do to fix it?
Wikipedia says that chestnut trees are not self fertile - they need another chestnut tree nearby for the flowers to be pollinated.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
So all Louise has to do to get chestnuts is to get another tree - Wiki says, "...All Castanea species readily hybridize with each other..." so it doesn't matter which variety she gets
There were lots of chestnut trees where I used to work - wonderful chestnuts every year - big fat ones
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Victoriana nursery sell marron de lyon that have big nuts.
They are self fertile.
You may have a wild type that will never give you big nuts for roasting.