I'm looking for viable acorns. Would love some burs but will take any acorn from tree that will grow large. Let me know prices or shipping costs.
My oaks are dropping acorns like it's raining. I doubt I could bag them up and ship them that far without them drying up. If you have nature trails, take a walk with a bag. Seems like a pretty good year for oaks around here. The deer should be happy this fall.
No oaks around the closest ones are 40 miles away and private land or inaccessible. What kind do you have?
I have two red oaks. This is the larger of the two. It's a beast. I'll get a measurement on the trunk this week.
I'm far from a tree growing expert, but I can collect acorns and bag them up if you want some. They'd probably get there in a day with a usps priority mail box. Just let me know if there's a good time to collect them. Message me your address. They seem somewhat small right now but that may be all the bigger they'll get. We've only lived here 5 months so I'm not sure.
Im posting for info, last year I collected probably 100 acorns wild that had already started rooting. I replanted and all that I have checked on didnt survive. What can I do in the future to give these a better chance?
Don't break the taproot when picking it up. Planting too deep or in soil too compacted. When planting I like to work the ground up good. Lightly tamp it and put acorn sideways just below the surface then cover with leaves or dirt and out a screen over it to keep the nuts in ground and not a squirrels stash
Collect them as soon as they hit the ground. You can put some moss or damp leaves in bag and they'll keep moist enough to be stratified over winter then plant in spring. By the way none of the red oaks here have smooth bark like that
I think it's red oak. I'll take a closer picture of the leaves. They are more pointed than the white oak leaves I've seen. I'm not an oak expert by any means. I do love the tree though, whatever it is.
I did everthing other than the screen on top. We are trying to get an old horse pasture growing again. I believe we will be buying seedlings.
Misconceptions: The white oak family, which includes bur oak, cannot be stratified. When the acorns fall they are immediately viable and should be planted at once. As is typical, plant them around 3 times the acorn's diameter in good soil. I can send you some bur acorns as soon as they start dropping this fall. Bur oak is pretty darned common in my wood lot.
I'm sure I'll have some acorns in a month or so. Let me know if you want some speed when they start falling. I have at least 20 large oaks all around my house. I pile up 5 gallon buckets of them every fall.
I was talking about his red oak but that is good knowledge to state I should have specified. Most white oak acorns I got were already sprouting in the mail. I would love to have bur oak acorns as well. Just get me some prices. What time is a good time to remind you when they fall?
I am aware of the acorns in September but not sure when they actually start to fall. As far as cost, I will use a flat rate mailing box so whatever that costs. Walking around picking up acorns is no big deal so not cost for the material itself.
All kinds lol. Some white. Lots of red. Not sure on the specific kind. Can snap some pictures of leaves if you would like. I think some are post oak. Maybe some black? I know none of them are pin oaks but my parents have a big one of their prop property so that is an option too.
A few of mine (northern red) do - I think they may be on the younger side. My chipmunks and squirrels seem to know a lot more about planting them than I do. None of the ones that I tried planting survived. For the most part, I couldn't have asked them to plant them in better spots either - beneath every dead tree that I've had to remove from my yard, I've got a northern, burr, or white growing.
My red oaks up here have a rough bark covered with moss definetely more maple like then smooth beechy bark
