" I do not want it to begin growing in other areas" Maybe too late already, it's busy creeping around under ground. Those flowers have billions of seeds too... The "morning glory" leaves trick people into letting these grow often.

Haha, thanks :-) I will say I have some q falcata with identical leaves to your tree but the bark on mine is quite a bit different and becomes very ridged/furrowed on the lower portion of the trunk at a similar caliper as the one you have shown as well as being much darker in color. Is there any way you could remove the wrap around the lower trunk and post a pic? I wonder if some of my trees with this anomalous leaf morphology are actually q falcata x marilandica hybrids. The 90* branch emergence on your tree is also in line with q marilandica branch crotches. What oak trees did you order that included this one? This post was edited by j0nd03 on Tue, Jun 11, 13 at 14:28

Hi again Mark Ok.... I guess I will just have to harvest the seeds from all the current pods on these 2 plants, cuz I forgot which flowers I crossed!! I did mark the pots, but not the individual flowers, so I guess when I start my seeds it will be just be another mystery, unless they don't look BP at all! :/ as I had mentioned before, this is my 1st attempt at cross-pollination, so I guess I have to go by trial & error. Next time I will mark the flowers, so that I know for sure what I'm working with when I harvest. Thanks for your advice!

Hard to tell if a butterfly emerged; there is only a small opening visible near the top of the pupa. If there is only a small roundish opening, the pupa may have been parasitized.