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A friend gave me a zip lock bag of oblong acorns last
11/20 ~1.5 in long with sprouted radicals
Started them in rootmakers for grins
They grew well into these
While they are low preference acorns, they are reliable annual producers on our farm and usually have an extremely heavy crop every 3 years. After all the higher preference acorns are sucked up, the deer start on them.
Really?? Deer clobber them around the region where my camp sits. I've tasted some chestnut oak acorns and they were nice and sweet - about the same as white oak acorns. But in the mountains with no ag - maybe it's a matter of "not much choice" ??? It's possible a variety of ag crops would change the deer's preferences. But in our hunting grounds, chestnut oak acorns are a favorite food.
I'd be happy with more chestnut oaks!!!
Really?? Deer clobber them around the region where my camp sits. I've tasted some chestnut oak acorns and they were nice and sweet - about the same as white oak acorns. But in the mountains with no ag - maybe it's a matter of "not much choice" ??? It's possible a variety of ag crops would change the deer's preferences. But in our hunting grounds, chestnut oak acorns are a favorite food.
I'd be happy with more chestnut oaks!!!
I found out that chestnut oak acorns sprouted in the fall by pure accident. Some years ago, I was driving across one of our many mountain dirt roads. There were loads of acorns laying in the road and along the edges. I stopped to check them out and saw many were sprouting root radicles. I looked up to see what kind of oaks were dropping them, and they were all chestnut oaks. I gathered a few and took them back to camp to stick in the ground. We now have some growing there. Lucky find that day!!!
My farm has a lot of chestnut oaks. The acorns just rot on the ground. Deer and Turkey don’t touch them. I have girdled a bunch of them to open up the canopy and to release red and white oaks.