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Post by bswiv on Sept 23, 2023 18:54:32 GMT -5
Swamp Chestnut Oaks are dropping......... Every third year it's a bonanza as the hundreds we've got go off.  |
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Post by drgibby on Sept 24, 2023 6:03:59 GMT -5
Agreed!
I have killed some of my best bucks under those trees. Not sure why a lot of folks in NE Florida call them white oaks.
You can hear one of them hit the palmettos from 100 yards away! So can the deer.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Sept 24, 2023 9:04:39 GMT -5
Are they wormy if they fall with the cap attached or are they being cut out by squirrels?
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Post by bswiv on Sept 25, 2023 7:25:09 GMT -5
Are they wormy if they fall with the cap attached or are they being cut out by squirrels? Mixed bag on that....................... I do know though that if you want to plant them picking them up as they fall ( windy day or busy squirrel ) or being very sure to get ones within a few days of falling off the tree is important. And when you plant them you need to either set them in the ground initially or if in a pot it needs to be a deep pot as the set very long taproots. And if that taproot is forced to curl or divert then the tree will most likely never be right once transplanted. We actually stick them in the ground in the woods as we wander about, much as did the native Americans with Chestnuts. That Chestnut history and the planting of them is a very interesting thing. Have a few in the yard too. But......deer are heck on the saplings as they use them as rubs. |
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Post by swampdog on Sept 25, 2023 7:41:38 GMT -5
Planting acorns I can appreciate. Except where they get buried or covered up in a flower bed. Once they’re a few feet tall you can’t pull them out.
I used to be a “Johnny Appleseed” with Hickory nuts. Hickory trees are one of my favorites, so I pick them up and plant them around. I have three in the yard. Two are from a scrub and one is from the Withlacoochee State Forest.
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