Well, it seems to happen ever so often and with the super dry year, it has happened again. Will be checking more trees though as I walk through our and the neighbor's woods.
Well the acorns around here are starting to plump up. I have a few pictures if anyone can ID types and how I would love to learn.
I'd guess the second one is pin, because of the narrow leaves. I'm not sure about the large one or the acorns - they may be a little underdeveloped. I really liked "Trees of the Northern United States and Canada" by John Laird Farrar.
Shallow acorns and large fat leaf appear like a black oak of sorts due to the shallow sinuses on leaf. The last one is either pin or scarlet. Pin oaks around here have stripes on acorn and scarlet I hear has shallow circle on the very tip of acorn but never saw a scarlet in person
These where just a few laying around the driveway that looked good. The squirrels are starting to eat them that's how most are getting on the ground. I'm sure in a month they should be mostly mature. What do you think? How do you tell they are done growing?
My backyard is covered up with acorns. When the wind blows it sounds like hail hitting the metal roof on the woodshed.
What kind do you prefer? I can get some pin, black, red, and white. Pm me address and preferred way to ship/package.
Acorn drop about done here. Had to make sure no cars parked anywhere near the Oaks. Big fat ones this year.
It sounds like you both had a better acorn year than we did here. I haven't seen any yet this year. I think I'll take a walk in the park and see if they got any from the bur oaks out there. Mine has had zero this year.
They are weeds here; acorns fall into the flower bed and sprout and I have to pull them out of the flower beds or I have a forest starting. When I pull the up, they do have a fairly long tap root.
Not many acorns in my woods. We did have a late frost which eliminated my apple crop and that may have impacted the oaks around here as well.
Basically no acorns here either but we're happy that we're finding lots and lots of new oak trees growing where we cut off the pines. We were afraid for them with the super dry summer we had but they turned out better than the older trees. Of course, too young for acorns yet as most aren't over a foot high. But they will grow fast where they are.
I think we have sort of covered it but let me pull it together for you. For the red oak family, pointy leaves, stratify in fall and wait until spring to plant. For the white oak family , rounded leaves and includes the bur oak, plant immediately because the acorns will sprout almost at once and they are best planted before they sprout. For any acorn figure the optimal planting depth as about 2 to 3 times the diameter of the acorn. Big acorns = deeper planting. Plant your acorns in what Kimberly described as good garden soil that is well worked up but not artificially fertilized. Her description was that they were weeds in her garden. My experience with properly planted bur oak is that 4 of the 6 I planted had to be thinned down to the best one and I transplanted that the next fall after a year of growth in the garden bed. It was about 2 feet tall at the time. Today it is trying to catch up with a nearby mulberry that had a 5 year head start on it. 20 years later with competition from a mulberry, a shed and a standard apple tree. The bur almost disappears into the background of the big mulberry. The shed shaded the bottom of that oak for about 6 hours each day although these days the mulberry shades the shed most of the day. The bur oak is centered in this one from another angle to see the tree itself better. I see I caught just a hint of my brush pile at the bottom. The apple in the right side of the picture is a standard I trimmed back severely 2 years ago. Now I notice, after posting, that the mulberry has the shed almost completely hidden from that angle.
