Where can I buy American chestnut trees and seed?
This is our most common question. The truth is that there are no blight-resistant American chestnut trees available to the public at present. Producing such trees is the goal of the Foundation. Please CLICK HERE (www.acf.org/seeds_seedlings.htm) to order pure, blight-susceptible American chestnut seeds or seedlings from the American Chestnut Foundation. This site also has a link to other suppliers of chestnut seed. Usually these pure American chestnut trees will become infected with the blight after a few years of growth. Note that American chestnut seed cannot be frozen or it will kill the embryo. The nuts are generally packed in moist peat moss and refrigerated a few months before germination. Even more exciting is the opportunity to grow advanced backcross (BC) hybrids harvested from local mother trees. Selected individuals of these trees will be the grandparents of the trees to be planted across the state to establish blight-resistant chestnut trees in the wild. Because one parent
