DCO Growers?

[wbpdeer]

I worked for over 3 hours releasing trees in a bottom field this morning. I believe my bundle of ten bare root seedlings were a few DCO and mostly Allegheny Chinkapin. I check 5 of them and I believe of those five - 2 DCO and 3 AC. The AC are the ones with the burs. That is good enough.

Now how tall will AC get in a field setting where sunlight is plentiful?

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[E_308]

What am I missing here? No change in these in over a month. This pic is from this weekend.

 

[Turkey Creek]

What am I missing here? No change in these in over a month. This pic is from this weekend.

Mine did the same thing this year. Mine are young and have never produced acorns yet. I assumed mine did not get fertilized (as in by a male flower) Blitz seemed to think that was likely as well as I never saw the male flowers on my oaks this year.

 

[E_308]

Yes this one did the same thing last year too.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Do you have other DCOs close by that are producing "normal" acorns? Other white oaks close? If so you would think they would be pollenized. I am not oak expert but assumed with all the hybrid oaks that pollenization would occur fairly easily. I dont have any other oaks close to my DCOs.

 

[letemgrow]

I've noticed that my dco trees had a few of those but most were viable acorns.


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[letemgrow]

I've been putting in the numbers and here is what two dco's produced and I picked most all the acorns for sure since they had not started dropping yet.

That's with the caps so more like 1.5bs total for both trees at the most. That's 2000 trees for 1500 lbs of acorns.....neat trees to have no doubt. Just not sure how viable they r from the standpoint of providing hard mast on a large scale.

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[E_308]

Do you have other DCOs close by that are producing "normal" acorns? Other white oaks close? If so you would think they would be pollenized. I am not oak expert but assumed with all the hybrid oaks that pollenization would occur fairly easily. I dont have any other oaks close to my DCOs.

This is the only DCO I have. Within 50-75 yards of plenty of other oaks. Has a few Concordia oaks growing all around it but they are only a couple of years old. Maybe next year.

 

[THE LLC]

My dco's are blooming again this year. This tree made about 25 acorns last year, of which I have about 15 seedlings coming up from. This picture is from this morning. This tree is four years old.

 

[TreeDaddy]

mine did the same this past fall ,2018

i planted them bare root 12/14

I planted 100 bare root again this past december (18)

bill

 

[E_308]

I have the 6 acorns I got off my trees in pots in a cage in the back yard. Hopefully I will be adding to my DCO population this fall.

 

[THE LLC]

Here's my DCO seedlings from my tree from last year. 5/12/19

 

[letemgrow]

Trees at the farm had a pile of catkins on them. The hope is this means a big crop this fall.




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[Matt Casto]

An someone tell me what DCO stands for and where I can find them at thanks in advance

 

[letemgrow]

An someone tell me what DCO stands for and where I can find them at thanks in advance

Dwarf Chinkapin Oak (Quercus Prinoides)

There will be some seeds for sale this fall most likely. A few nurseries carry them.


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[letemgrow]

Bumper crop in the making this year.





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