Tissue Culture Qing Chestnut Trees

Tissue culture Qing Chestnut trees grown to ~30 inches tall and shipped bare root. The trees will be packed for safe shipping and should be removed from the bag and heeled upon arrival and then watered until ready to plant.

The photos are of the trees in the various stages of propagation & growth. Orders can be fulfilled as bare root plants in the winter (most common) or as liners to nursery customers in the spring.

About the Qing Cultivar

Qing is known to is a pure Chinese Chestnut (Castanea mollissima) first identified in Kentucky. It is known to be a smaller tree and a heavy producer of medium to large nuts. Nuts tend to be sweeter than most other C. molissima cultivars and store very well.

We deliver trees to growers in all parts of the U.S.. Before selecting a cultivar for your farm, we recommend speaking with growers in your area, extension agents, or other advisors to select the best cultivars for your specific growing conditions.

Recommended Pollinizers:

Qing is not considered "male pollen sterile" so may be used as a pollinizer for other varieties. cultivars or seedlings to produce a crop. For more information on pollinizer selection see our Resources Page.

About Tissue Culture Propagation

Chestnuts are notoriously difficult to get into tissue culture. This means growers have had to use other forms of propagation, such as grafting and air layering to plant or expand an orchard. Non-tissue culture forms of propagation are both time intensive and have very high failure rates. For example, it's not uncommon for 50% of crafted chestnuts to die back to the graft within a few years.

Tissue culture chestnuts do not require grafting or air layering. There is no root stock and scion. Each tree is grown from a small piece of juvenile wood and is therefore a single, uniform tree.