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Post by wildfire123 on Jul 22, 2018 10:20:19 GMT -6
Has anyone else noticed that the bur oak acorns are now starting to drop?
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Post by wiscwhip on Jul 22, 2018 10:28:09 GMT -6
Are they actually ripe or are they falling from some type of environmental stress or natural thinning of a bumper crop? Oaks have been known to do both.
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Post by wildfire123 on Jul 22, 2018 11:02:40 GMT -6
Other than deer, if it brown, it is down!
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Post by Catscratch on Jul 22, 2018 11:29:13 GMT -6
Plenty of acorns still on my burrs. Some are probably thinning out but nothing abnormal.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Jul 22, 2018 11:33:08 GMT -6
The acorns are thick this year
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Post by Reagan on Jul 22, 2018 12:24:49 GMT -6
I didn’t know it until I moved to my current house 6 years ago but trees shed a lot of mast in the summer.
I have a pignut hickory that rains nuts every July. All of them have worm damage or are just rotten. There are so many I think nothing will be left by fall. Then every fall it drops healthy nuts. I wish I had an oak close by to monitor and see if it does the same.
That may be what you are seeing now.
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Post by nhmountains on Jul 22, 2018 14:56:13 GMT -6
I noticed acorns in the road in a few locations yesterday and today so I think it's a thinning process.
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 22, 2018 15:43:46 GMT -6
Where I grew up, we had whites drop acorns in July quite often. Can't remember if it happened every single year or not, but I remember thinking, "Who can pattern acorns when they start falling in July?"
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Post by Sandbur on Jul 22, 2018 18:19:56 GMT -6
Where I grew up, we had whites drop acorns in July quite often. Can't remember if it happened every single year or not, but I remember thinking, "Who can pattern acorns when they start falling in July?" Whites or burs?
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Post by wildfire123 on Jul 22, 2018 19:14:19 GMT -6
Can you read WHITES!!!
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Post by wklman on Jul 22, 2018 19:43:16 GMT -6
I'm guessing Sunday night is drinking night.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Jul 22, 2018 20:22:55 GMT -6
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Jul 22, 2018 21:12:11 GMT -6
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Post by benmnwi on Jul 22, 2018 21:12:11 GMT -6
Acorns are not dropping here. Burr oaks are loaded this year, but not dropping. My yard is filled with a dozen 150 year old burr oaks, so when they drop I know quickly when I mow the lawn.
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Post by sd51555 on Jul 22, 2018 21:56:44 GMT -6
Where I grew up, we had whites drop acorns in July quite often. Can't remember if it happened every single year or not, but I remember thinking, "Who can pattern acorns when they start falling in July?" Whites or burs? I don't think we had bur oak around home. All those trees were enormous and had really nice trunks on them for timbering. Having said that, we've never taken one for making a gun rack, table, or cat tree.
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Post by wildfire123 on Jul 23, 2018 11:32:46 GMT -6
My back yard is not where you would want to mow barefoot.
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