I need help with my chestnuts

Bonjour, Mr. France. Ca va?! Oui?.....a moth can be hard to deal with. Maybe spray something on the plant to chase it away? Yes?! That's the way I see it...soapy water sprayed on the trees at night can help. Also, neem oil is organic bug killer. A little neem oil in a gallon of water with a little dish soap may chase the moth away!...spray the trees at night....and maybe you will see success!

You can try telephoning a french garden center for advice.....

mb a larvae that eats it's way into the nut and eats it from the inside out. the answe is to keep the area around your trees clean of debris in the fall as eggs are laid in leaves near the bottm of the tree. also under the bark of the tree. identify the insect by capturing one and snd it to an agricultural extension service, a college entomologist may help. but your problem may be more wide spread and not an isolated insident. talk to your neighbors and see what they have experienced. you need to prevent...not treat. thta's the best way. but if you gotta sppray then permithrin is a harmless pesticide that wipes out larvae, adults but not eggs. so you will need to repeat applications for a couple years to remove the problem all together.

Originally Posted by dannyboy602

mb a larvae that eats it's way into the nut and eats it from the inside out. the answe is to keep the area around your trees clean of debris in the fall as eggs are laid in leaves near the bottm of the tree. also under the bark of the tree. identify the insect by capturing one and snd it to an agricultural extension service, a college entomologist may help. but your problem may be more wide spread and not an isolated insident. talk to your neighbors and see what they have experienced. you need to prevent...not treat. thta's the best way. but if you gotta sppray then permithrin is a harmless pesticide that wipes out larvae, adults but not eggs. so you will need to repeat applications for a couple years to remove the problem all together.

i am going to post pictures you can see what is going on, the camera i took them on is in france, i'm not, but asap i'll throw them down.

you touch on a few of my problems. my problem is big as in entire forest big. surrounding owners have used chemical grafting techniques.
(graft - graft on branches from certain trees on to my sweet chestnuts, think skin graft, pardon me for the little lecture). so far my techniques have remained 90% organic. my trees are below god (some next chestnuter) and i think his chemicals are seeping down through the mont. The answer is would you like me to tell you how to moderate, esp if it's profitable! he'll tell me to put it in my mouth if i ask him to reconsider, it may not even be him.

it's an enviromental problem (bigger than a gallon of water with neem oil in i'm afraid ) the trees could always look after themselves, conditions are obv not right.
yes it is more wisespread, the sweet chestnut has basically been eradicted in the USA and Australia. it is a first hand experience of climate change.

i'll put up the pics asap x

I am trying to upload the photos and the app isn't letting me. Appreciate your webmaster ain't finding all this funny but thats no good me for innit.

I'm trying to do it with my mobile phone so application working would be genius. Logging onto website takes too long and boring. I really want to show you my sweet chestnut trees. And fine it's more the horse chestnut that is in trouble but i don't want the same happening to my trees.

Thank you for your patients.

Sweet Chestnuts.

I'm the one behind the camera taking the photographs by the way.

i didn't know there was a problem with american chestnuts. i know there's one with american elms. chinese chestnuts have few problems i'm aware of but i am a plant snob and i like indigenous plants. natives. american horse chestnuts get a fungus every year where i live. they emerge beautiful and end up looking like shit by july or august. your local county extension sevice (usually they work with local colleges) will be a big help. they can identify the problem and help you with a solution. it used to be that insects and disease were a local problem. not so any more. they travel across the globe and that is part of an ever increasing problem for our native species. the answer is in education and awareness for the property owner. and in resistant cultivars for growers and nurserymen. i didn't see any problems with either the heart wood or the outer cork cambium layer. it looked clean. but i'm not there and i'm not a specialist. look locally for a solution.

Originally Posted by dannyboy602

i didn't know there was a problem with american chestnuts. i know there's one with american elms. chinese chestnuts have few problems i'm aware of but i am a plant snob and i like indigenous plants. natives. american horse chestnuts get a fungus every year where i live. they emerge beautiful and end up looking like shit by july or august. your local county extension sevice (usually they work with local colleges) will be a big help. they can identify the problem and help you with a solution. it used to be that insects and disease were a local problem. not so any more. they travel across the globe and that is part of an ever increasing problem for our native species. the answer is in education and awareness for the property owner. and in resistant cultivars for growers and nurserymen. i didn't see any problems with either the heart wood or the outer cork cambium layer. it looked clean. but i'm not there and i'm not a specialist. look locally for a solution.

Dutch Elm Disease wiped out the American chestnut. I remember my dad would go into the mountains, find old rotted chestnut stumps, and shovel out all the reddish wood powder to use as a soil amendment. cn