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Post by wildfire123 on Aug 5, 2017 17:34:18 GMT -6
I have 5 Bur Oaks in my yard, at least 30" circumference at breast height. Have lived here since 1999, only 2 have ever had acorns. Does anyone else noticed similar?
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Post by sd51555 on Aug 5, 2017 17:37:09 GMT -6
My time with bur has been short, but I haven't seen an acorn crop yet. This is year 3 I've been watching. I can see some, but they are few and very small. Seems geared towards grouse.
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Post by Foggy on Aug 5, 2017 19:28:44 GMT -6
I've got ten old Burr Oaks at my home on the lake. I would imagine some of them are 100 years old. Never get any acorns on them......despite getting lots of water and fertilizer in the yard.
At my deer property.....I likely have a few thousand Burr Oaks of various ages. I do see a few acorns on them from time to time....but not very many. I also have a few red oaks of varied ages.....and they produce a few acorns each year. The ground around here is not good for acorn production?? Dunno.
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Post by jbird on Aug 5, 2017 23:32:56 GMT -6
I have one that is pretty big here as well and it produces very poorly as well, yet I have one I released a few years ago and is much smaller and produces just fine now. I don't know...... I have a white oak that produces acorns on the lower 1/4 of the tree only......tell me if that makes any damn sense!
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Post by chummer16 on Aug 6, 2017 9:35:03 GMT -6
My time with bur has been short, but I haven't seen an acorn crop yet. This is year 3 I've been watching. I can see some, but they are few and very small. Seems geared towards grouse. Bur oak should have a large acorn. Mine don't look like anything online so perhaps I have have some hybrid white/bur oak.
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Post by jbird on Aug 7, 2017 10:51:35 GMT -6
Yep bur oak acorn should rival the size of a ping-pong ball and have a very distinctive cap as well. If I recall properly they produce the largest acorn of an native oak in north america. If you have small acorns they may be a pin oak or a chinkapin oak. I'm sure there are others with real small acorns, but those are the 2 that I am most familiar with.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Aug 7, 2017 13:15:07 GMT -6
I have hundreds of bur oaks, and they usually produce every other year? Not sure why you are not getting acorns?
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Post by smsmith on Aug 7, 2017 13:21:53 GMT -6
Yep bur oak acorn should rival the size of a ping-pong ball and have a very distinctive cap as well. If I recall properly they produce the largest acorn of an native oak in north america. If you have small acorns they may be a pin oak or a chinkapin oak. I'm sure there are others with real small acorns, but those are the 2 that I am most familiar with. Not up here or in southern WI. Burr oaks in more southern locations do indeed have those huge acorns. Burr oak acorns here and on my old place were 1/2-3/4" long and half as wide in diameter. The burr oaks here have huge crops of acorns most years. Last year was the exception, that late frost pretty much eliminated the entire crop.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Aug 7, 2017 14:47:03 GMT -6
Deer and turkey seem to really like bur oak acorns!!
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Post by jbird on Aug 7, 2017 15:16:06 GMT -6
Yep bur oak acorn should rival the size of a ping-pong ball and have a very distinctive cap as well. If I recall properly they produce the largest acorn of an native oak in north america. If you have small acorns they may be a pin oak or a chinkapin oak. I'm sure there are others with real small acorns, but those are the 2 that I am most familiar with. Not up here or in southern WI. Burr oaks in more southern locations do indeed have those huge acorns. Burr oak acorns here and on my old place were 1/2-3/4" long and half as wide in diameter. The burr oaks here have huge crops of acorns most years. Last year was the exception, that late frost pretty much eliminated the entire crop. Well, I'll be dipped! I figured the trait of the tree would remain the same..... Is it because of a shorter growing season or something like that? I'll post up a pic when I get home of what I get here......when I get them.
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Post by jbird on Aug 7, 2017 15:27:15 GMT -6
It just hit me......Long ass winters, feet of snow, wolves, bears, short ass growing season and now your nuts are small too? Man it must SUCK to live up Nort! Hahahahahaha!!!!
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Post by sd51555 on Aug 7, 2017 15:39:30 GMT -6
I've bet I've got the smallest bur acorns you've ever seen. Lots that look like m&m's. I think the ticket to me getting a crop is a dry year.
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Post by smsmith on Aug 7, 2017 15:49:04 GMT -6
Not up here or in southern WI. Burr oaks in more southern locations do indeed have those huge acorns. Burr oak acorns here and on my old place were 1/2-3/4" long and half as wide in diameter. The burr oaks here have huge crops of acorns most years. Last year was the exception, that late frost pretty much eliminated the entire crop. Well, I'll be dipped! I figured the trait of the tree would remain the same..... Is it because of a shorter growing season or something like that? I'll post up a pic when I get home of what I get here......when I get them. One good reason to pay attention to provenance of seed when growing trees. I got some of those huge burr oak acorns from Brushpile years ago. Started them in roottrappers, grew them out for a year and planted them on my old place. Last I knew they were still alive, but my guess is that they'll never produce acorns. I talked with a local nurseryman back then and he told me they'd likely survive but the nuts would probably never completely form.
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Post by biglakebass on Aug 7, 2017 16:43:20 GMT -6
My driveway at home some years is covered daily with acorns.
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Post by Foggy on Aug 7, 2017 17:55:53 GMT -6
Somebody tell me what to do in order to make my Burr Oaks produce better acorns. I got the trees.....but the acorn crop is not very good.
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