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Source for heartnut, butternut, and buartnut seeds?

 
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I've got a need for the aforementioned tree seeds. Does anyone know where I can get ahold of them? I haven't been able to find anything reasonable online. Burnt ridge doesn't seem to be carrying them this year.
 
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I found heartnut seeds and butternut seedlings on Etsy. No luck with buartnut.

Link for heartnut seeds
 
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might be worth joining the northern nut growers association and reaching out there. i know a few folks in kentucky working with some of those species.
 
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Thank you both. I hadn't thought about joining the association
 
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http://www.grimonut.com/  has heartnut seeds.
https://treeshrubseeds.com/INSTOCK/specieslist?id=647&ID2=1 has butternut seeds

I've never seen buartnut seeds for sale.
 
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The summer of 2022 was not good for walnut seeds.

But Butternut trees are supposed to alternate good years and bad years.
Nobody seemed to have Butternut seeds for sale in 2022, so I assume that was a bad year.
Hopefully, 2023 is a good year.

To Canadians who may be reading this thread:
Incredible Seeds (IS), in Nova Scotia, sells Butternut seeds--but they only ship within Canada.
Also, a caveat, they do not guarantee the purity of their plants, or even know the exact variety. They get their Butternut seeds from wild trees growing in the local forest. They may be hybrids. And if you buy seeds from IS, and get them genetically tested to confirm they are 100% Butternuts, in future years IS may not pick seeds from the exact same spot in the forest. Bottom line: there is no consistency and you do not know what you are getting.

James, are there no local trees from which you can collect seeds?
You wouldn't know for sure if they are hybrids, but I don't know important purity  is to you.
 
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