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Premium Planting Seeds
- Hand harvested & hand selected from the best producing trees of our farm
- Approx. 39 to 48 chestnuts per pound
- NO HEAT sterilization process
- Nuts are viable
- NOTE: Seeds need to be stratified to achieve results. Learn how to stratify chestnuts on our “Stratification Page”.
$15.00
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67 reviews for Premium Planting Seeds
We do our best to offer the most convenient flat shipping rates and all our packages are sent via USPS Priority Mail.
Please note that in the majority of cases, transit time is between 2 to 3 business days, however IT IS NOT a guaranteed service.
We ship, Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday so please keep this in mind when ordering.
Due to regulatory restrictions, we cannot ship to California, Washington and Oregon.
*Some shrinkage is to be expected during shipment so additional chestnuts are added to each order.
Chestnuts are perishable and we do not accept returns.
All of our chestnuts undergo quality control inspections and they are fresh when they leave our farm.
Chestnuts will remain fresh during transit time, however upon delivery of your order, please inspect your chestnuts carefully and keep them refrigerated. Please contact us with any possible question or concern as we will work hard to ensure your satisfaction!
*If your package has been damaged during shipping, please take photos that will assist in the claim-filing process..
Tim Clark (verified owner) –
Just purchased 1 lb of your premium seeds and based on other reviews I expect to receive them quickly! We own a private conservation area and have been planting very low cost hardwood trees from our State conservation dept. since we purchased the property. Probably 160 trees over 14 yrs. I am very impressed by the people who are planting your seeds and other varieties . I have to believe this will make a difference in being the chestnut back. I will let you know in a few months how the seeds and plants have done. At this point I am very pleased!
Al Kozak (verified owner) –
Ordered a pound last year and all but one started. Started in basement under lights and all exhibited good growth and transplanted to larger containers and moved to the outdoors to harden.
Here’s the warning!! If you have tree rats (squirrels) around they will get into the transplants. I did not cut one nut off of a sprout and the tree rats found it, ate it and pulled 50 % of my trees from the pots looking for more nuts. Of those the tree rats cut the stems at ground level leaving roots and a cut stem. I think I made up some new words as this all happening in one morning.
I rerooted those pulled including the roots with no stems hoping some would grow. The whole plants all grew and the ones with only roots and short stem all sprouted new stems after about a month.
So… if you have tree rats cut the nut off the new tree and put a wire chicken fence around them to keep the tree rats from ruining your day.
jimmyscott1991 (verified owner) –
Stratified and direct seeded about 20 seeds with 5 ft tree tubes, all are growing out of the tubes, 3 are 8 ft tall in their first year, great quality!
MURPH (verified owner) –
I don’t typically leave reviews but felt absolutely compelled to do so. I ordered 1 pound of premium planting chestnuts and received 48 chestnuts and got 100% Germination! I followed their instructions from the website to a T. about 3/4 of the way through the stratification process I removed them from the fridge and re bagged with new soil as some mold began to form on the edges of the nuts. Half of them at this point had started a taproot. I cleaned them in a solution of water with barely a splash of bleach and rinsed very well in very cold water. After 4 months total I removed them to put them in pots in a window sill. 100% Germination!!! Every single chestnut sprouted a root, and now 2 months later they have all sprouted solid stems, some 6″+ in size. I wish I could submit a picture here as I am doing a time lapse of their growth because I was so impressed by it. Will for sure buy again and for sure recommend anyone to purchase these.
Laurel N. –
Purchased last year, all but one chestnut germinated after stratification. Would recommend this product and intend to buy more this October. Will be subjecting a few to truffle spores.
Nathan S –
Fantastic quality, at least 95% germination. I stored them below grade in a bucket of sand over the winter. Dug them up and direct seeded some and potted others in April.
I just leave the pots outside, and they mostly know not to sprout until threat of frost is gone. 3 to 1 peat/vermiculite.
Any failures are attributable to me or nature.
I also had a similar germination rate with the XL nuts.
Chestnut Ridge of Pike County is a high quality business and they should be proud of their product.
Michael Kearney (verified owner) –
Kinda bummed. After months in the fridge, rap roots on all but two. Planted in good soil and hardened them off in my 3-season room. All started to grow, 3-5 inches tall, then suddenly 75% got what I call damping off. The tips died. So I ended up with 13 viable plants.
Jason flaitz (verified owner) –
Thank you for the fast shipping!!! They all looked great, except 5 of them were not good. Thank you
donnie oneal (verified owner) –
Lightning fast service. Will definitely order again next year.
Chris Drozs (verified owner) –
Second year ordering seed nuts. Last year recieved 45 nuts and 44 grew and are 2 foot tall in tree tubes. Great product and wonderful customer service A+++++
Greg Smith –
Ordered 4 pounds. Received in 2 days. Every single nut was quality. I’m starting an orchard so I’ve ordered from several places and Chestnut Ridge is by far the best in service and chestnut quality so far.
Patrick Lantz (verified owner) –
First order from CRPC. Received 2 lbs of planting chestnuts 2 days after order placed. I had a question before the order arrived about peat moss; CRPC responded promptly. Enclosed directions for cold stratification are straightforward. Looking forward to April and chestnut sprouts ready for transplanting. Will definitely order from CRPC again.
Azor and Judy (verified owner) –
We ordered 1 pound of Chestnut seeds and the order was shipped fast and packaged nicely, we got instruction on how to take care of your seeds as soon as you get them, We where very pleased with this business and how they handled our order. Very well done, we will reorder
michael pisanelli (verified owner) –
First time buyer from Chestnut Ridge . I am very impressed with the prompt shipping and great packing. Have been growing chestnut trees for three years now (in tubes) and have trees over 10′ tall. These were from Empire and am pleased with them but thought I’d shake it up and try some from CROPK. They immediately went to the fridge for stratifying. Pleased-thanks!
Peter Antonowski (verified owner) –
I have purchased these seeds every year for the last 3 years and have had really good success with them. I live in upstate PA. and these do really well even with our winters the only suggestion I would make is make sure you use tree tubes they really speed up there growth and protect them from deer.
Kevin (verified owner) –
First time customer. Easy to order. Shipped immediately. Received in good condition with easy to follow instructions. Looking forward to getting them in the ground.
laurel n (verified owner) –
Received my first order (1 lb, 40 seeds) for planting, none of the seeds floated, immediately went into cold storage per directions. Hoping for great results in the spring.
Eric Rabren (verified owner) –
The nuts I ordered last year have done excellent. Planted some in tree tubes and that made all the difference in the world. I have some trees coming out of the top of a 5’ tree tube the first year. I germinated 88 seeds (2 lbs.) and had 81 successfully sprout. I done as the instructions entailed and the outcome was great.
Chad (verified owner) –
2nd year ordering the Dunstans. I stratified 350 last year and 99% germination rate. (I ate a few pounds). Planted over 200 trees this year and have more in the refrigerator now. Best in the business!
Wesley (verified owner) –
Great service! My 5th year of buying seeds from Chestnut Ridge.