The latest oak to drop acorns on my farm is.....

Familytradition

Familytradition

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In central Indiana english oaks and their crosses seem last. There was a tardily English cross that held on until December at an old farm that I hunted. I would love to know what they were and to have gotten some nuts going from them. The owner was a once a forestry student at Purdue and owner a company that made veneer saws. He had all different sorts of trees from his contacts. The purple European beech were one of my favorites that he collected.


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I only have 4 types of oaks on my place, White oak, Chinkapin, Burr and Northern red (I have sawtooth/catscrath oak, but they are seedlings). NONE of them I would consider late dropping as they will all be done by nov 1st from what I have seen. I know a guy who has an english oak that I am sure I can get some acorns from.....you got me thinking....
 
j-bird said:
I only have 4 types of oaks on my place, White oak, Chinkapin, Burr and Northern red (I have sawtooth/catscrath oak, but they are seedlings). NONE of them I would consider late dropping as they will all be done by nov 1st from what I have seen. I know a guy who has an english oak that I am sure I can get some acorns from.....you got me thinking....
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Another thing that I like about many of English and English crosses is that many are columnar in growth type. I have not data to support this, but I will tell you my theory. Let's say that I planted hazelnuts along a food-plot. Wouldn't a columnar tower of mast producing tree create more mast than a bush? Thus creating more mast per acre than using bushes while not shading out my foodplot?


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On my farm, water oaks are the latest dropping. They will start in October, but there will still be acorns in the tree come January that, as they fall, deer will key on them.
 
Familytradition said:
Another thing that I like about many of English and English crosses is that many are columnar in growth type. I have not data to support this, but I will tell you my theory. Let's say that I planted hazelnuts along a food-plot. Wouldn't a columnar tower of mast producing tree create more mast than a bush? Thus creating more mast per acre than using bushes while not shading out my foodplot?


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I've been saying for years columnar oaks are worth looking at, I've planted quite afew on my farm, they seem faster growing, produce early and quite heavily. I have several english hybrids and most have dropped real early accept for the bur/english hybrid, its still dropping a few the rest are done.
 
THE LLC said:
On my farm, water oaks are the latest dropping. They will start in October, but there will still be acorns in the tree come January that, as they fall, deer will key on them.
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Water oaks are the dominant oak on my farm. Most of them are fairly spindly due to growing in and amongst mature pines before the pines were logged 6 years ago. What type of acorn crops do you see from your water oaks?
 
Charlieyca said:
Water oaks are the dominant oak on my farm. Most of them are fairly spindly due to growing in and amongst mature pines before the pines were logged 6 years ago. What type of acorn crops do you see from your water oaks?
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Some years pretty heavy. Some every year. Mine are mainly in creek bottoms and are huge, old trees.
 
English oaks in a local parking lot were pretty much spent by mid October last year. I picked up some acorns and started half dozen in pots this year. From what i can remember, 75% of columnr seed will produce a columnar oak.
 
Charlieyca said:
Thank, Mine are mostly 8-12" DBH and was hoping they would start dropping acorns soon.
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They should be. I got some out in an old clearcut smaller than that that have dropped acorns. Haven't noticed any on them this year but they were loaded last year. Guess last year's late freeze got this year's crop.
 
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