Hazelnut varieties zone 5

General Fruit Growing
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Varieties of hazelnuts that grow in zone 5 are Geneva, Northern, Santium, Jefferson, Slate, Het 3, Aldara.

Hazelnuts grow like a bushy tree or a shrub. Hazelnut trees will send up sucker shoots from the ground from the root system.

Hazelnut trees will grow between 12 - 25 feet in height.

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Welcome to GrowingFruit! You’ll find a number of nut growers here to converse with.

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Thanks richard.
Some of these hazelnuts mentioned are either Oregan produced or Ontario produced cultivars.
Highly resistant to eastern filbert blight.

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Welcome! There are a few others from Z’s and Grimo. Good luck with your plantings :slight_smile:

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If you’re east of the rockies, U of Oregon varieties are only resistant to 1 EFB isolate, and we have potentialy dozens. Santiam and jefferson will die. Rutgers have the new varieties that are very resistant or immune.

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Oh great! I just planted a Jefferson this spring.

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