Dwarf Chestnut?

I suspect the answer is no but is anyone aware of a dwarf chestnut varieties besides the chinquapin? Like say a smallish Chinese hybrid variety? I don’t have a lot of room but I’d really like some chestnuts. I have maybe a 40 ft circle to plant them which is pretty tight. Hardly any websites list the size of their chestnut varieties which leads me to believe that they’re all huge. I haven’t seen any grafted on dwarfing rootstock like fruit trees.

A quick googling returned this

Ah yes the korean chestnut. Are they just as good as the chinese/european varieties? Seems like a good option for me

I'm kind of always looking for the same thing.  This Google go-round, I'm seeing lots of references to "Anny's Summer Red" which looks like a European-style chestnut.  The European sellers are saying it will top out at 2-3 meters high, while the American ones suggest 4-6.  I'm tempted!

Interesting.  Searching online for "Anny's summer red" turned up a pdf with some truly monster chestnuts: Interesting new chestnut cultivars  The trees looked mostly huge though

I need one of these. I have a seedling Chinese chestnut about ten years old. It needs a pollinator fast. I’ve had two die.  Anyone know where I can order one?

Oikos Tree Crops carries a hybrid of Chinese chestnut and Allegheny chinquapin / chinkapin that sounds fairly dwarfing. I wish somebody in the Ozarks would try a similar cross with the Ozark chinquapin. I have a half-acre suburbanish lot but still want to grow chestnuts! In the absence of my dream Chinese chestnut x Ozark chinquapin cross, I guess I'll have to give those Korean chestnuts a look.

Have you seen this site? They are working on resistance.

https://ozarkchinquapinmembership.org/

Have you thought about a restrictive pruning regime applied to a standard chestnut?

I have heard that commercial orchards tend to prune to 40-50ft, not sure how general that practice is...but maybe you could get satisfactory performance while keeping it much smaller?

Yes, the folks working on preserving the Ozark chinquapin seem great (though I doubt they'd welcome my idea of crossing it). The Ozark chinquapin is also taller than the Allegheny, so it's possible a cross wouldn't be that dwarfing, anyway.

Pruning is a good thought, too. Worth doing some research to see if anybody has experimented with that.

I found this thread and it has been sitting for 5 years now. I found Morse nursery as a good source for trees. They are focused deer and turkey plots but they carry a wide variety of native persimmon, crab apples , chestnuts, oaks , apples and pears. Along with some fruiting bushes.  They have the Korean chestnut. Just in case anyone else is following this thread.