mattpatt
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Sawtooths are leafing out. These are six year old trees and are a good ten feet tall. All grown from seed.
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Sawtooth Oaks
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mattpatt
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Hoping for some acorns this year. A few of the trees bloomed last year but none of the trees set any nuts.
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g squared 23
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Do they hold their leaves long? Someone recommended topping them to create a shrub that makes a great screen.
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That looks real good! The Bass Pro Shop in Springfield, MO has Sawtooth Oaks planted as ornamental trees in the parking lot, and they drop a good crop of acorns during bow season.
I have a bunch that are 12 this spring and they have been producing a couple years,but they are like fruit trees I think you need a lot of them to have much of a food source as mine maybe last a couple weeks. I actually had a couple burs that produces great big acorns the year before the sawtooths did.I need to try and find some more or plant some acorns
Cap'n
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Great looking trees MP.
I have some direct seeded sawtooth that broke ground a couple of weeks ago. They are the first to do that. I also have chinkapin oak and post oak direct seeded and neither of those have emerged yet. Whats weird is that last year we didn't have a good year for mast production in the upper end of the crosstimbers region and particularly in the post oak / black jack oak forested areas.Bur oaks didn't produce either.
But in those areas the saw tooth had great crops. This is why it's good to have several varieties of mast producing trees because you never know which one is going to take the lead.
Of course we had a low of 24 degree's last night / early morn with a small amount of snow.
I covered my plants with clear plastic against the north wal of the property
the temp inside the plastic is much warmer.
I have some direct seeded sawtooth that broke ground a couple of weeks ago. They are the first to do that. I also have chinkapin oak and post oak direct seeded and neither of those have emerged yet. Whats weird is that last year we didn't have a good year for mast production in the upper end of the crosstimbers region and particularly in the post oak / black jack oak forested areas.Bur oaks didn't produce either.
But in those areas the saw tooth had great crops. This is why it's good to have several varieties of mast producing trees because you never know which one is going to take the lead.
Of course we had a low of 24 degree's last night / early morn with a small amount of snow.
I covered my plants with clear plastic against the north wal of the property
the temp inside the plastic is much warmer.
