Hairmetal and anyone else reading this. I wonder if the pollen can stay in storage for the couple weeks or however the time amount in between is? All oaks bloom in spring right? As far as Oikos they are in Michigan, so southern oaks are likely not messed with, for lack of a better wording. Mossy oaks emailed me about my order, they can't gaurantee me a Comptons oak (or 4) being that they are in demand, and the seed hunting/starting is still not done, but they told me that many of their lives and Compton's "gave them problems". So of course I emailed back enquiring if they lost any to the cold winter, last winter. I begged for them to take the time to answer. Maybe the little lower trunk sprouts will do okay in the future after all. I am still planting hardier whips near them. Maybe my Compton's were okay and their's weren't because mine have some size to them. Sorry, I wish Dax was around Live oaks, he likes to try things with trees. I bet if he could get live oak pollen he would try some hybridizing. Hair, the Asian oaks that are evergreen, are they like out Live oaks in shape? I want an oak that takes after the Live oak almost exactly in shape and size, proportion. Maybe if I saw the Compton's up close in person, I would shut up and be happy. If I could talk with the guy at Mossy oaks that knows about the breeding, and will listen to my incestant questions, and take the time to listen, and answer me. Well, I'll try and post that question about Alba X Virginiana to them now.

By the way, how big do you wait for your seedlings to get? At least a couple of sets of true leaves. Do the plants fight it out and the strongest wins? Or do you have to thin out eventually. I plant hunks and I really don't thin. Maybe a few die off but most seem to continue to grow and grow. My go-to filler is whatever is volunteering in my yard. So often melampodium, coral nymph salvia, rud hirta. Basically whatever pops up. Karen

Thanks, gene. I didn't even think about it being a seedling and not turning into a good little fig tree like its mama. Good point. I will also try a sucker, can't hurt. Peg, thanks, I know I am very spoiled. It's like living in the garden of eden because everything grows, but of course, we pay dearly for it out of our pocketbook, but it's worth it. This fig tree grows like a weed. I prune it back severly after the leaves fall in the winter and then it comes back with a vegence in the spring, growing, growing, growing and producing more figs than we can handle. I try to eat them, give them to friends, family and strangers, and still a good bit of them go into my compost. Oh, and I do make jars upon jars of fig preserves too. I will definately always have a fig tree wherever I live from now on, they are just so easy and tempting. But my kids find the best part the low branches, perfect for preschoolers to climb up in. :)

Never heard such thing around here and I've been to a lot of nursery stores. I went to a website that I thought may have it but I didn't see it.