Ozark Chinquapin Seeds
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boardmaker
A good 3 year old buck
I’ll take you up on that offer.
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Hoytvectrix
5 year old buck +
I'm interested as well. Please PM me.
Hoytvectrix
5 year old buck +
I put nine of them in pots and put them in my mud room, thinking it would be too cold for them to germinate. I started seeing some emerge in early December and eventually gave in and moved the pots under some grow lights. This was last week.
I tried saving some for direct seeding by not putting them in soil but had read several accounts that they are very difficult to keep over winter. I ended up putting all of them in some media to germinate. I'd say there was around 95% survival (so far) of the ones you had sent me. Thanks again!
Hoytvectrix
5 year old buck +
Are you direct seeding yours or getting them started indoors first?
John B
5 year old buck +
They suggest direct seeding but i got about 10 inches out of them last year. If i dont do better than that this year i will try starting indoor going forward.
Hoytvectrix
5 year old buck +
I have watched just about every single video from the Ozark Chinquapin Foundation. It sounds like they get really good growth out of them in the first year in a tree tube. I am nervous about leaving them to the elements by direct seeding, even if I tube them. Keep us posted how they do with the direct seeding.
John B
5 year old buck +
Will do. I cut a section of tree tube to 18 inches and then put a wire cage around to protect from deer. Ive had really good luck doing this with chestnuts but was pretty disappointed with the chinquapin growth. Hopefully it goes better this year. Would be cool to have several years of trees from the foundation cross pollinating.
I’ve planted them in tubes and it works well. The beauty of fall planting is you don’t have to babysit them nearly as much as the trays. This pic is fall planted American chestnuts in one and Ozark chinquapins in the other.
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Hoytvectrix
5 year old buck +
Do you protect the seed beyond just the tube for the fall planted chestnuts?
Once they get close to exiting the tube, I put the fencing material around them at that time.
They don't get anything else in the fall when planted but the tube.
