Oak trees dropping teeny acorns prematurely
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New baby oaks all in my lawn b/c of the huge drop of acorns. Mow?
Comments (45)overproduction is called a mast year : https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=mast+year&ia=web it can be.. but not always... is the year AFTER some weather event... very cold winter... drought.. etc .. as the flowers bloom before the drought .... it wouldnt be adverse to the nut production the year of teh drought .. inartful english there.. hope you can figure what i mean ... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oak+flowers&t=ffcm&iax=images&ia=images perhaps mary is not mowing her grass often enough ... perhaps dont wait until the grass is tall enough.. and just keep mowing the trees .. if you keep cutting off the leaves.. soon or later.. the tree will use up stored energy..and die ... ken...See MoreDoes anyone have LARGE burr oak acorns and caps?
Comments (16)Just a thought to consider. Trees grown in the South, may not acclimate to northern growing locations. This topic came up with other tree species and failure to thrive when moved north. The thinking was tree grown from southern trees cuttings or seed, has developed the coping mechanisms needed for that climate. Trees grown in northern areas are more used to that weather and thrive in it better. Often do poorly when shipped south. This would be where the advice comes from "Find a local nursery to get your trees from, so you have a better survival rate." Trees grown locally, do better in local conditions. I know that there SEEMS to be no difference in trees, Burr Oaks for instance, when looking at them. Just that trees grown from southern acorns may not be as successful in maturing to full size. Would be easy to be wrong too, just that this "locale" of parent tree information has come up before in big failures-to-thrive discussions. Did seem most failures were imported bushes and trees, not local grown stuff. Good luck to any acorn growers with Jeff's acorns. Hope they grow swiftly for you! I have several seedling Burr Oaks coming along, that I started from the backyard tree a couple years ago. They are destined for fence row trees in the field or gifts. Rabbit nibblers are my worst enemy, not cold. The funny little hats on Burr Oak acorns caught my eye, like Russian fur hats. Mine are always the same size as other acorns, Pin, White, Red Oaks in the yard and woods. No acorns yet this year, but the Hickory nuts are falling. Very warm and lots of rain so trees don't quite think fall is here. Got colder last night, so maybe the best of summer is over....See MoreBurr Oak tree acorns ...!
Comments (23)Alabama and Sherry - thanks for the advice. It's like old times talking with you. I've missed you! Alabama - I'll plant them out - these acorns are huge, bigger than tennis balls. I've never seen acorns this big. We don't have many squirrels (yet). We do have rabbits, possums, raccoons, muskrats, foxes, coyotes, and deer. Brandon: you recommend using chicken wire or hardware cloth to "fashion protection.: Can you describe how you would do this? Lay the stuff on the ground and use metal staples to keep it from blowing away? Make a quasi-box out of chicken wire and staple it to the ground? None of the above? Sherry - cold?? It's awful. Last week, we had temps below 20 in the morning - it's just starting to warm up a bit. 15-20 years ago, we used to get a light frost after Thanksgiving, then the first frost occurred in first week of Dec. The last few years have been so mild, we didn't have a freeze until January. On Friday, it SNOWED in Va Beach, Norfolk and parts of the Eastern Shore. We had a few flurries, no accumulation. I ordered another 200 hardwood and flowering tree seedlings, they are due around Dec 31. Also more LLPs. I'm looking for a good source of redbud, pawpaw, yaupon holly and few other type of seedings. I must be crazy to be doing this now but I think the seedlings will settle in better if I plant them in dead of winter. Take care and try to stay warm. Don't be strangers! Pam...See Morewhen will acorn drops stop..?!
Comments (1)This is a fairly obvious response but my advice is to ignore it. Let the squirrels, etc, eat the acorns and get on with your projects. They aren't going to hurt anything....See Moreken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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