Sawtooth Oaks

[massey]

Mountains of Virginia.


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[weekender21]

Guess I better add them to the “plant with kids” list. Cold stratification required correct?


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[Cap'n]

Guess I better add them to the “plant with kids” list. Cold stratification required correct?


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I don’t think it is a true White Oak, I have always stratified them and then planted in the early spring. I will be direct seeding them this year. I also had a bag of them in the fridge for over a year and some had produced a radicle. I put them in 1 gal. Pots and a bunch of them geminated. Those trees are now in 3 gal bags and are nearly 3 ft tall I’ve had really good luck with Sawtooth.

 

[massey]

Yep. One of the easiest to grow from acorns. I collect and then ziplock in the fridge for a month or two with a very slightly damp paper towel then a n pots in garage till you’re past the deep freeze, then once they’re up stick em near foundation on south facing side of house. Once they’re finished growing for a summer I plant them in tubes at final destination then once they’re out of 5’ tube Remove it and put a little wire cage around it for a year or two.
One thing that will give them a 2-3 year jump is spraying gly in a circle around drip line for a year or three and sprinkling with 19-19-19.


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[Cap'n]

That’s pretty much the way I do it.
This year I’m going to direct seed into tubes cut to about 18”. Then fence them in as they grow. Not going to put any in grow bags at all. I haven’t tried direct seeding yet. Looking forward to see if they establish at a higher percentage.

 

[weekender21]

I loaded up today, added a few hundred sawtooth to our growing acorn collection.


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[THE LLC]

I don’t think it is a true White Oak, .

Sawtooth are a red oak. Take two years to mature an acorn. Need cold stratification for a few months.

 

[Cap'n]

I had always heard they were a white oak that needed stratification like a red oak. I always just put them in with the shumards I collected from the same spot. All I know is they do very well in the crappy soil I’m attempting to grow trees in and I’m impressed with that.

 

[weekender21]

Sawtooth are not red or white, they’re classified as Cerris Oak.


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[THE LLC]

For non-forestry-educated deer land managers in the US, they are red oaks.

 

[weekender21]

For non-forestry-educated deer land managers in the US, they are red oaks.

Come on LLC, nothing wrong with being accurate.

But sure, I get your point. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and requires stratification....

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[THE LLC]

Agree, but don’t want to cause confusion in order to be accurate. That sounds like Joe Biden don’t it???

 

[weekender21]

Agree, but don’t want to cause confusion in order to be accurate. That sounds like Joe Biden don’t it???

No, not following you there. But, I’ll gladly take a handful of your late dropping sawtooth acorns in you have any to spare. I’ve been looking in our area, the trees I’ve found are done already.


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[THE LLC]

I got plenty. PM me your address. Ol' Joe said he didn't want to confuse truth with facts.