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Gray Henon

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Harvested and roasted our first chestnuts today. Wife and I both thought they tasted similar to a potato.

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Greg Martin

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Congrats Gray!!! I can't wait for mine to start producing. I got flowers this year on them for the first time, no nuts yet but getting closer. Very excited for you.

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Gray Henon

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Went back and looked at my records. The tree is a "pollenator" from Stark Bros and was planted Feb 2016 in our bottom land pasture. The tree is around 10 ft tall and 3" in diameter.

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Mike Barkley

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Those look great. Ours are starting to fall from the trees already too. Seems a little early in the season. Be vigilant about picking them up daily or the weevils will ruin the nuts. Good luck for the next 100+ years with that tree!

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