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RE: Does anyone know anything about Chestnut trees?

Posted 300 days ago

Try peeling back a tiny piece of bark with your thumbnail. If necessary use a knife blade or similar (you can tell I've never even seen a chestnut tree can't you?)

This will show you if there is still life under the bark because if should look green. I'll have my fingers crossed for your chestnut tree.

RE: Does anyone know anything about Chestnut trees?

Posted 291 days ago

I had a close look at my chestnut tree today. Unfortunately it is very dead. The young branches have shrivelled and there are white spots all over the branches and trunk.

I'm wondering if maybe the tree had died of a mineral deficiency or something. It's not the first tree to show these signs after dying on our property. Other trees have been silverbirch and cherries.
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Even the hard, dull, dry ground harbours life - which is brought to the surface with the fresh touch of drenching rain (or the humble watering can).

RE: Does anyone know anything about Chestnut trees?

Posted 273 days ago

Probably best to do a soil test. Also, all the trees you mentioned are cool climate trees, is it too hot or too dry where you live?

RE: Does anyone know anything about Chestnut trees?

Posted 271 days ago

The area I am in should be cool enough in winter. Maybe we get a bit too hot weather in summer, and definitely not a very good rainfall area. This summer has been a pretty good wet one though so it would have been only those few days of really hot and humid weather that had stressed the chestnut tree out. Once established (and it hadn't had time to fully get established yet) the chestnut tree was meant to be quite hardy in our conditions. I bought the tree at a nursery section of a store in Wagga. Maybe this was one of the trees that could have benefited from shade cloth coverage - though the tree was already over 2 metres tall when we put it in. It received no shade at all through the day and had to deal with strong winds regularly. The area around the base of the tree had been well mulched with straw.
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Even the hard, dull, dry ground harbours life - which is brought to the surface with the fresh touch of drenching rain (or the humble watering can).