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The yearly nut/seed exchange thread in my opinion is one of the best things about this forum. It didn't seem to generate a lot of interest last year, but hopefully this year it will get back to where it was in the past. The purpose of this thread is for everyone to post any extra nuts, acorns...

Does anyone know Don Higgins or where he lives? I have the pitchforks and torches. This heretic must be burned at the stake. All kidding aside, he does bring up some valid points. I tend to agree with him on sawtooths and Dunstan chestnuts. Where I am at, sawtooths drop in August and I have...

I got excited when I pulled in the hotel parking lot yesterday afternoon and saw the Shumard oaks lining the driveway. For some reason, my wife was not as excited as I was. I went out this morning and picked up a couple of hundred acorns off the tree and the ground. I will be growing them out...

I went to go look at a couple of sawtooth oaks today to see if they were getting ready to drop yet. I found that one had already started dropping about 10 days earlier than normal for south Mississippi. Some of the acorns are still green on the tree while others are on the ground. I don't have...

I was looking to grow Chickasaw Plums this year, but I cannot locate any seeds. Does anyone have any seeds? I would be happy to pay for shipping if anyone has any seeds.

I was graciously given 7 Concordia Oak acorns in 2018 from fellow member (Letemgrow) of this site. All seven sprouted in early 2019, but they did not grow much their first year. This past winter, I moved the seedlings from a raised planter bed to a large pot to give these trees one more year to...

I have been removing persimmon seeds from the fruit by hand. I bust the fruit and then pick the seeds out. I then take the seed, usually still in the seed coat, and place it in a bucket with water for a couple of days. After that, I squirt the seeds with the water hose and the seed coat usually...

The local Walmarts are starting to clear out their Chestnut Hill Outdoors trees. I know that these are big box store trees, but they have a big buck on the label, so they must be good trees. This year my local Walmart stocked 3g and 7g chestnuts, several types of 3g persimmons, 3g Thanksgiving...

I am selling 25 RootMaker RM18T trays that I bought last year. They were used for one year. A couple were not used at all. They are still in really good condition and are clean. I am asking $70 plus shipping.

Before the end of the year, I am going to have to buy 200 tree tubes. I would prefer 5-foot or taller tubes, but would consider 4-foot for the right price. If you have any that you want to get rid of, please contact me to let know what you have. I will take any quantity that you have.

So who is ready for acorn season 2018? I checked my notes and this sawtooth started dropping acorns on August 16 last year, so it should not be long before I am collecting more acorns and other seeds. I checked a couple of swamp chestnut oaks and white oaks today. The swamp chestnut oak that...

I was driving down a rural highway last week and saw catkins hanging off a tree. I hit the brakes to investigate and found several small trees right above a ditch in an old fence line. I believe that these are some type of Castanea and I assume that it is an Alleghany chinkapin, but it could...

So I am currently growing cherrybark, nuttall, northern red, southern red, willow, swamp laurel, sawtooth, bur, overcup, white, and swamp chestnut oaks. I am also trying to grow Shumard oaks and it is a dismal failure so far. My germination rate on all the other oaks is 75% or better. Right now...

I went to my local wildlife management area yesterday just to walk around in the woods a little bit. I did not do much walking since the woods were flooded due to recent rains. I did find a swamp chestnut oak tree that had thousands of acorns still sitting on the ground. The acorns were rotted...

My son has to do a high school science project. He is going to test and see if size matters by testing whether larger acorns from the same tree produce larger seedlings than smaller acorns. Unfortunately the project is due March 19. He has a little over 7 weeks. I have some sawtooth acorns that...

I am not associated with Nativ Nurseries and I have never bought anything from them. I did stumble across this video that gives a little background on the nursery and habitat management in general. I thought it was pretty interesting. It starts about 2:35 into the video and lasts for about 7...

I was out riding my bike yesterday in a local park and found a couple of trees that I need help identifying. They are roughly 10-15 feet tall. They were bearing what I thought was a fruit that looked like an odd sand pear. It was yellow and golden brown, but it didn't feel like a pear. I went...

The sawtooth oaks here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast started dropping this week. I picked up about 50 this morning in a couple of minutes and all sank like a rock. I have big plans for this winter and next spring, but wanted to ask a few questions from the experts. I have grown a few oak...