Comments by "blakespower" (@blakespower) on "American Chestnut Trees once the Pride of the Appalachia's" video.

  1. yeah they crushed them up into a flour then soaked them in a bag in a stream to get rid of the tannins, then they could make like a flatbread with them
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  2. I planted an american chestnut I got the seeds from someone in Michigan where they never got the disease yet, back in 2006 its still alive in maryland, but a locust tree fell on it just when it was starting to grow fast at about 10 feet tall knocked off its top and a lot of side branches it hasnt grown much since. a bald cypress i planted close to it, it's twice as large maybe 34 feet if i estimate right, and a lot more branches
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  3. pray for your American Beech trees as a new disease is killing them all! spreading south, some type of Nematode that destroys the leaf structure of all beech trees so they cant photosynthesize and they starve to death from 2-10 years. and of course its from Asia like all devastating diseases
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