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Chestnuts Information The Farm  Chestnut Tree Pollination
Chestnut trees are a fruiting tree. Like most all other fruiting
trees, chestnut trees require proper pollination to successfully
set fruit. The ability of a fruiting tree to set fruit and carry
it to harvest is dependent on many conditions to be met. For
chestnuts these conditions are:    1. Healthy trees – stressed
trees are poor producers of chestnuts    2. Genetically capable
of setting fruit – some seedlings never produce fruit    3.
Weather conditions during the growing season    4. Available and
viable male and female flowers    5. Mature trees    6. Pollen
available and viable during the period the female flowers are
receptive  Cross Pollination of Chestnut Trees for Nut
Production  Chestnut trees by themselves are not self
pollinating. In other words, a chestnut tree all by itself
usually will not produce any chestnuts with the kernel filled
in. This chapter attempts to explain the some