Controlled-Cross Hybrid Hazelnuts (Corylus spp. hybrids)

Our Controlled-Cross Hybrid Hazelnuts possess all the finest attributes as our Selected Seedling Hybrid Hazelnuts with a few key distinctions. The Controlled Crosses are full siblings, meaning that these seedlings share the same parentage. They bear early in age, more homogenized shrub size of 6-8' tall and wide, and a condensed ripening window of 1.5 weeks, all useful traits for mechanical harvesting. 80% of the Controlled cross seedlings have flowered within the first year from planting and they have born crops more consistently across the population than selected seedlings. They exist in areas of heavy Eastern Filbert Blight presence and show no signs of susceptibility.  Harvest begins in Mid-August in southwestern Wisconsin. No other seedling on the market carries this combination of dominant traits in its' population. Most of their breeding trials and research had been conducted in USDA hardiness zones 4 and 5.    The Controlled Cross backstory: Since the 1990’s, Forest Agricultur