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33.4° here with fog

43.8” up here too…easily my best January. Great snow month for the region.

Didn’t your daughter live up on the hill here? I took a ride further up this summer and saw a bunch of suckers growing off the side of the road…probably 850ft up.

I expect them to die within 10-15 years. The goal was to get these to survive until the ones modified with the blight resistant gene are introduced…but that suffered a setback after the lead scientist died and there was a mixup with which trees were what.

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Not really. The Chinese hybrids with backcrossing back to American have struggled. And they quickly lose their american traits, like towering height, which makes them fail in forest settings since they can’t compete with oaks, maples, pine, etc. Those dunstan trees you may see are mostly chinese…probably 80-90%. So those will survive, but you may as well plant a chinese tree. If someone wants to grow chestnuts for improved nut production there’s a lot of great hybdrid varieties out there with huge, tasty nuts with good blight resistance.

Here’s pics from my 3 biggest trees last spring. Gene has some too.

When they get old enough for the bark to start to fissure is when the demise usually starts. It gives more openings for the blight to get in. Some of these younger trees with improved resistance develop something called “cruddy bark” now which is the tree battling the fungus and trying to heal over it. It enables them to grow long enough to reach maturity. That’s really the key for bringing the tree back. If they can all live 20-30 years and just be able to reproduce they can slowly try to evolve on their own.

Yeah I got a few, but rootstock makes a big difference on size, precociousness, and biennialism. Honeycrisp tends to want to really flower every other year unless you prune it hard annually. Are yours honeycrisp? I’ve become more of a pear guy. Ripe pears off the tree are amazing. Here’s an apple off the above tree. This is all no spray.

No. None are really resistant. But they’re from parentage that survived many decades while battling the blight cankers to produce seeds. The american chestnut foundation collects pollen from the few remaining large trees and pollinates the others in the eastern US. Oaks carry the blight so there’s really no escaping it.

With leaves? American chesnut. The one on the left is a honeycrisp apple.

35.7° -RA Pack is softening up

Hopefully we get some hires goes images of an eye like feature off of the delmarva.

Yeah we don’t get that cold…lots of Labrador marine taint advecting in from the block. It’s too much of a block for my liking up here. It can work, but there’s more potential hurdles introduced.

Yup…long way to go. Many scenarios on the table.

The primary on 1/6 is pretty strong right into Lake Erie. Has that torched mid levels look even if the sfc redevelopment is over Soto’s locker. Long way to go although the d8 pbp is always enthralling.

Miller Lite

I dug up the Fairbanks record ob. Almost 1070. PAFA 311100Z 00000KT 1/8SM FG OVC/// M42/M A3146 RMK R01LVR20 F7 SLP687 T1422////

Do you mean gravity waves?

I had this on the wall of my dorm room next to Sarah Michelle Gellar

All snow and no greta makes wolfie a happy dog

Ah, the great high pressure of Feb 13, 1981. The event that truly got me into weather.

Almost 50 years later and the Superbomb still dominates that map.

I’ll see you on the Marco Island community forum.