Acorns are dropping.

[alldaysit]

The acorn drop as of Labor Day weekend up here in Rusk County Wisconsin has been off the charts. The trees are loaded with them and my driveway is covered.

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[rocksnstumps]

Passed alotta Swamp white oak on the river today while fishing in NE WI. Still pretty green but looks like gonna a good crop.

 

[Lee Haakenson]

West central WI seems to have an extremely good bur or white oak crop. Some red and pin oak this year, but not alot

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[bwoods11]

Deer have abandoned the beans and are eating acorns like crazy in my area.

 

[wango tango]

I can also confirm a much larger acorn crop than usual, at least on my white oaks in central IL. Brown and dropping.

 

[cavey]

I have a giant burr oak in the yard out at the farm and it is the best/heaviest acorn drop I have ever seen from it.

 

[ksgobbler]

Burr oaks are loaded.

 

[TreeDaddy]

^^^^^^^^.........obscene

bill

 

[Davewp]

Found these growing in a parking lot. a white oak for sure. but not sure of variety. tree is loaded, not very tall. chestnut? swamp chestnut? leaning toward swamp white oak. thoughts?

 

[cavey]

some type of columnar oak tree (white oak family?) I would be grabbing me some of those acorns, thats a pretty cool tree

 

[OakSeeds]

English Oak .... collect some acorns and you will see vertical lines from the base to the tip of the acorn. see top group of acorns in attached photo.

 

[Davewp]

picked from tree, but removed very easy, all sank. tree still has a bunch of green ones.

 

[OakSeeds]

Davewp .... after seeing the acorns you removed from the tree I think your belief it is primarily SWO is a better call than my suggestion of .... English Oak (EO acorns are usually elongated - couldn't tell with cap on tree - as opposed to gum-drop shaped SWO). If it was in a parking lot island or in small area on edge of lot it could be a hybrid (Regal Prince ia a cross between SWO and columnar English Oak). I'd be starting some trees off that tree .... it appears to be a winner. Good luck! Also, I would watch the tree each year to determine it's fruiting frequency and I'd try to learn who/when it was planted (if the lot is new withiun the last 8-10 years, it might not be too difficult to learn who landscaped the lot). They should be able to tell you a lot more about the tree. Again, good luck ...that is an exciting find.

 

[Davewp]

Davewp .... after seeing the acorns you removed from the tree I think your belief it is primarily SWO is a better call than my suggestion of .... English Oak (EO acorns are usually elongated - couldn't tell with cap on tree - as opposed to gum-drop shaped SWO). If it was in a parking lot island or in small area on edge of lot it could be a hybrid. I'd be starting some trees off that tree .... it appears to be a winner. Good luck! Also, I would watch the tree each year to determine it's fruiting frequency and I'd try to learn who/when it was planted (if the lot is new withiun the last 8-10 years, it might not be too difficult to learn who landscaped the lot). They should be able to tell you a lot more about the tree. Again, good luck ...that is an exciting find.

i took 20, plastic bag with damp paper towel, sitting in frig. once cools down outside. thought would put in some soil in garage and see what happens. Thx for response.

 

[weekender21]

Great crop of acorns in western NC this year. White and red oaks were hitting the ground the first week of September. The deer on our place were really keying in on Chestnut and White Oak acorns. I had several opportunities under a chestnut oak and eventually shot a doe under a large white oak on September 13th.

 

[H20fwler]

We worked on our stands today and trimmed shooting lanes, ground everywhere in and around both woods covered in acorns. All kinds of whites, reds, pinoaks and some tiny little ones I’ve never seen before. Turned out to be a bumper crop of every type this fall.

 

[scott44]

Picked up enough for a couple RM-18's next spring or direct seed haven't decided. I made it just in time they are dropping pretty good from this bur.

 

[rocksnstumps]

Apparently my white oaks are not dropping acorns fast enough for the impatient. Having bear(s) tearing the crap outta the tops of my trees. Some before and after pics. This bear damage on oaks is getting old. Several weeks ago it was a bunch of burr oaks all pushed over. At least these whites have a trunk too big to get the same treatment but these are still young trees, barely a dozen years old. Bears by me are not very common, kinda wish they would find a new neighborhood.

 

[Cap'n]

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Found these growing in a parking lot. a white oak for sure. but not sure of variety. tree is loaded, not very tall. chestnut? swamp chestnut? leaning toward swamp white oak. thoughts?

I have some seedlings from a tree that looked just like that. I was told they were columnar English Oaks. I have one growing on my land and 3 more in 1 gal pots that I'll plant this year. I found the trees outside the Federal courthouse in OKC when I was on jury duty. The acorns produced small seedlngs but the one at my land is tubed and it's about 18" tall. Those leaves don't look quite like the ones I have though because of the white on the back of the leaf and there are many more lobes on that leaf than on the ones i've got. Beautiful tree though. And good sized acorns shaped just like the ones pictured.
Those leaves look like chinkapin to me except for the back of the leaf. I've never seed a SWO though.

 

[OakSeeds]

SWOs are famous for having a "silvery" underside ... beautiful when they shimmer in the wind; one reason why they are so popular as landscape trees.

RNS ... at least he left you the central leader.