TACF Pollination Photos

TACF Pollination Photos (June-July, 2008)
(Photos taken by Joe Schibig unless noted otherwise)

Carolyn, GA-TACF Chapter president, bags immature female flowers at the
Wagner Farm, Meadowview, Virginia.

Three Tennesseans (Clint, Jack, and Joe) take a brief break.
(photo by Paul Sisco)

Clint, Jack, and TACF Southeastern Coordinator, Paul Sisco, at the Wagner Farm,
Meadowview, VA.

Jack wolfs down some delicious serviceberries on the Emory College campus.

Jack ascends a 30 ft ladder to remove male flowers from the TN champion chestnut
in Jackson County.

Only one good limb remains on this blight-damaged tree.

Jack positions himself in the crotch of the tree to snip off flowers with his 30 ft pole pruner.

This Macon Co. chestnut is one of the healthiest American chestnuts in TN and has
produced nuts for several years.

From the left, Cody Luedtke (Carolinas Chapter Intern), David Morris (Alabama Chapter),
Scott Seagle and Hill Craddock (TN Volunteers) apply GAHAR12 pollen to this Meadow-
view mother tree (BE50). The tree was prebagged by Clint Neel, Jack Torkelson and Joe
Schibig. Photo by Paul Sisco.

This is a precocious, flowering, grafted American chestnut growing in Sam McInturff's orchard in
Blount Co., TN. It is a graft from a tree in Walker Co., GA. and its pollen may be used to pollinate
a TACF mother tree in Meadowview, VA . Photo by Hill Craddock

Pollen was harvested from this American chestnut graft in Joe Schibig's orchard in Sumner
County, TN and was used to pollinate a TACF mother tree at Meadowview VA.

This is another young flowering nutgraft in Schibig's orchard. The scion was from a stump
sprout in Jackson County, TN. The pollen from this one was also sent to Meadowview,
VA to apply to a TACF mother tree there.

Sam McInturf has been able to grow American chestnut trees in his Blount County, TN orchard
for use as "Mother Trees" in the TN-TACF chapter backcross program. This summer, in June
2008, Sam pollinated several trees in a full-sib family (they had the same mother and father) of seedlings
that were grown from the 2002 cross TNBLO-1 x Bendabout E-10 (both BLO-1 and E-10 are
American chestnuts trees). Sam was able to use these seedlings this year to make four different crosses;
pollen from 'Nanking' Chinese chestnut, and 'Daebo' and 'Okkwang' Korean chestnut will result in F1
hybrids, and pollen of Bendabout I-8 (a selected Clapper B2F2) will result in a Tennessee third back-
cross. Sam and other dedicated volunteers are making significant contributions to the restoration of the
great American chestnut. ( Photo and caption by Hill Craddock)

David Morris of the Alabama Chapter pollinates another chestnut. Scott Seagle took this photo
of David with Aunt Vida's house in the background.

From the left, Cody, David and Scott are shown pollinating a Meadowview Virginia mother tree.
Photo by Hill Craddock

Larry Recknagel from South Carolina pollinates a tree in the Glenns Orchard at Meadowview.
(Photo by Paul Sisco)

Joe James from South Carolina applies pollen from some of his Phytophthora-resistant chestnut hybrids to trees
at Meadowview. (Photo by Paul Sisco)

Paul Sisco coordinated the 2008 Father Tree program at Meadowview; he said that was easy because of the
cooperation from TACF volunteers in the southeastern states.

Lee Gragg of NC helps David Morris of AL with the pollinating. (Photo by Paul Sisco)

Marty Cipollini and his wife, Kathy, pollinating a Meadowview chestnut. (Photo from Paul Sisco)

Matt Summerlin, Berry College intern, was one of several Georgians who helped with the 2008 pollination work
at Meadowview. (Photo by Paul Sisco)

Joe Nicholson, official photographer for the GA chapter, pollinated trees while entertaining everyone with his
puns. (photo and caption from Paul Sisco)

Hill Craddock and Scott Seagle pollinated BE50 for the Georgia Chapter. Though there is some healthy
competition between TACF Chapters in the southeastern US, it is overwhelmed by a plethora of cooperation.
(Photo from Paul Sisco)

Cody Luedtke, a graduate of Antioch College in Ohio, was Stanback intern for the summer of 2008. She picked up
pollination techniques very quickly. Here she works with Larry Recknagel of SC on a tree in the Glenns Orchard.
(Caption and photo from Paul Sisco)

Cody makes the final Father Tree Pollination of the Year: 1:45 p.m., Tuesday, July 8, 2008, on SC213,
using pollen collected from an American chestnut tree in Pilot Mountain State Park (NC) by
Steve Barilovits III (standing to Cody's left), President of the Carolinas Chapter.
(Photo and caption from Paul Sisco)