Greengrassjunkie, I forgot that I don't HAVE your email address. I tried to post that fact earlier, but my computer was being tempermental, and I could'nt get back online to say so earlier. My email is julie.gogola@yahoo.com. Send me info on what you want for the acorns of Compton's oak in Va. ( Williamsburg, Va right?) I currently will be getting 3 Compton's seedlings from Mossy oak natives nursery, but would take a handful of acorns. I have explained in the Va forum how they are special, but, I don't want to pay alot for them. Maybe on ebay you can get a decent price for seedlings, but I will not pay much for them. My Compton's will produce seed in a few years themselves according to the nursery I got them from. Well, figure your price out and I will reply to you. If you choose to grow the trees and sell on ebay, about $9-$10 is your likely price range, unless those people check the Mossy oak natives nursery site, which is ever so slightly cheaper by 50 cents to a buck difference. If you want more than $1.00 per acorn, I will just wait til mine produce in 4-6 years. But you may be able to sell seedlings on ebay for 8-10 bucks when they are 2 ft tall. Just figure what your plans are. I will never be lacking in oak trees. A friend will be sending me a Libani oak soon. I will take an acorn or 2 at $1.00 or less. I don't mean to be smart, but they are rare but not super rare and unavailable in the US. The Libani mention is RARE and not available in the US. Tell me your price. Poaky1. Oh, P.S. You will need to put the acorns in a bucket of water, and those that don't sink are likely not good. Those that sink to the bottom are likely good. Any holes in the acorn are from insects that will eat the insides of the acorn and it will not sprout. I don't mean to be nasty, but the Compton's oak is rare, but not rare in my yard. I'll give you a buck per good acorn. Maybe ebay will get you the same amount of moolah, just make sure the acorns are good, you know no holes and they sink in a bucket of water.

If I had more room I would be trying Bebbs oak. I think that one is from Oikos. I have to stop though. If I am going to have room for understory plants in the future, I have to allow room for them. If an oak dies I will have an opening. I don't foresee that happening though. I just planted some Q. Alba acorns to replace a Shingle oak. The Shingle wants full sun so I have to find a place for it. The Q. Alba can stand the part sun it will have until the ailing tree it's under dies. I am happy with the Magnolia's they have at Mossy oak too.

Well, it it’s been a while since I posted here. Here’s the effect of heavy snow on three of my established live oaks in northern Virginia back in Jan. 2022. Had to take them all out. It’s not the cold, BUT THE SNOW LOADS that limit their success here. I still have my oldest live oak (30’ high). For some reason it was not damaged. Maybe because it was less out in the open. And branches could rest on other trees.

Hah, funny Treebird, "wet crappy soil". I have decided to remove the Quercus Alba "rooted acorn" MAYBE,. If I remove the Q. Alba acorn/future tree seedling, I will have no trees RIGHT INFRONT OF MY HOUSE, ON THE SOUTH SIDE. So if I then keep the seedlings I have planted previously where they are, it will be a small wait, perhaps 5 years before the trees I have planted near my house, on the south side, will start to shade some of my house from the southwest to the southeast. To be clear in what I am saying, "I have 2 Compton's oak seedlings, near the eastern exposure of my" house".. On the "Western exposure, there is a " Swamp Chestnut tree" several feet from the Compton's oak seedlings. But, it is best to be able to possibly be able to keep tree tissue and plant regeneration possibilities going straight ahead with the trees I ,have. I am now depending on my 2 " Compton's oak" seedlings. Which eventually will be wanting to "host" some seedlings. As far as my homes southern "light exposure", there are "energies", that can be used by "whatever force" is using our post ideas.