mystery tree seedling

TreeDaddy

5 year old buck +
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

What are they? ChestnutOak? IMG_1432.JPGIMG_1432.JPG
 
Looks like chestnut oak to me.
 
I agree they look like chestnut oaks.

Just can’t tell if their swamp or regular. I have regular chestnut oaks and the deer won’t touch the acorns.
 
I agree they look like chestnut oaks.

Just can’t tell if their swamp or regular. I have regular chestnut oaks and the deer won’t touch the acorns.
Curious as to why not

They are of the white oak variety and lower in tannin,etc

bill
 
Curious as to why not

They are of the white oak variety and lower in tannin,etc

bill


Swamp chestnut oak has low tannin and is gobbled up.

Chestnut oak is high in tannin and their bitter. I’ve tasted them. My house is in the woods and I’m surrounded by chestnut oaks.
 
Swamp chestnut oak has low tannin and is gobbled up.

Chestnut oak is high in tannin and their bitter. I’ve tasted them. My house is in the woods and I’m surrounded by chestnut oaks.
And there you have it
Good info
Will not be featuring these trees in the field

Thanks

bill
 
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.
 
I have regular chestnut oaks and the deer won’t touch the acorns.
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!!!

Had the leaf blower out the other day cleaning up the yard. Plenty of them sprouting all ready.

This at my home not the farm. We have deer in the yard quite often but maybe it’s a low deer numbers thing.

Like loshonhora said, they produce a lot of acorns and we have a lot of trees. Maybe the deer can’t keep up. But I’ve never seen them eat one.

Maybe I should make a pile…..
 
Plenty of them sprouting all ready.
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!!!
 
East texas appears to be out of their native range

Will transplant a few to the field this weekend for grins

always room for one more baby tree

bill
 
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.
 
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