plant horse chestnut seed Hybrid Chestnut – Whitetail Hill Chestnuts

plant horse chestnut seed Hybrid Chestnut – Whitetail Hill Chestnuts#1 Food Source for Deer + #1 Our Best Selling Tree Orders placed now are for Fall 2026 shipment Orders placed now are for containerized trees. We take orders for our trees in advance and ship them out at the proper time for Fall planting in each region from Aug Dec. See our Shipping Date Map to see exactly when orders will ship to your state. Get your order in now, we sell out early every season! The #1 food source for deer and the #1 choice if you're

#1 Food Source for Deer + #1 Our Best Selling Tree

Orders placed now are for Fall 2026 shipment

Orders placed now are for containerized trees. We take orders for our trees in advance and ship them out at the proper time for Fall planting in each region from Aug-Dec. See our Shipping Date Map to see exactly when orders will ship to your state.

Get your order in now, we sell out early every season!

The #1 food source for deer and the #1 choice if you're looking to start a chestnut orchard! Whitetail Hill is your source for the best hybrid chestnuts available. Seeds used for our trees come from mature parent trees that have been selectively bred to have the best traits for both wildlife and orchard production.

If we had to recommend just one tree that we think every landowner should consider planting it would be our hybrid chestnuts. Chestnuts provide excellent nutrition, unmatched drawing power, are easy to grow, and are one of the fastest producing trees you can plant with production starting in just 2-5 years.

Chestnuts have extremely high drawing power for deer. They contain large amounts of carbs that help deer pack on fat stores ahead of winter and provide bucks with the needed energy for the rut.

Our hybrid chestnuts are also the absolute best choice if you're looking to start an orchard. They are fantastic for human consumption and are the same variety grown by most commercial chestnut growers. If you're interested in learning more about starting an orchard see our article here: Growing Chestnuts as a Cash Crop

Chestnuts have several advantages over oaks: Unlike many oaks chestnuts produce every year giving you a consistent food source you can count on year after year. Also unlike oaks, they contain no tannins. This gives them a sweet flavor that deer love. In fact, some studies have shown deer prefer chestnuts by as much as 100:1 over acorns. Deer absolutely love chestnuts and if your goal is to draw and hold deer on your land, you'll love chestnuts too. They simply can't be beat for attracting deer. Chestnuts are also attractive to other wildlife such as turkeys, raccoons, squirrels, and black bears.

Our trees are fast growing and will reach 6-8ft tall by the end of the next growing season under good conditions. They will produce nuts within 2-5 years making them one of the fastest producing wildlife tree plantings available. Mature trees can produce 100lbs of nuts per year, creating a huge food resource that will draw deer for miles around.

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Tree Size When Shipped: 1yr old approx. 18-48 inches tall

Variety: Castanea dentata X mollissima (This variety is also commonly called dunstan)

Time Till Production: 2-5 years Nut Size: 0.75 - 1.5 inch diameter

Height at Maturity: 60ft+

Spacing: 25-30ft

Nut Production at Maturity Per Year: 50-100lbs/tree (2,000-3,000lbs/acre)

Years Till Maturity: 15

Zone: 4b-9 (From Northern Michigan to Central Florida)

pH Range: 4.5-6.5

Time to Plant: Early Spring or Fall