Oak trees

Hi Guys,

At work today, I grabbed a handfull of acorns from the back garden of a client.

I want to pot each one and see if I can get them to grow.

I'm not sure if this is the right time of year, but any suggestions welcome as to how to get these acorns going.
Shall I just pot them and place the acorn an inch deep and wait? Or is there anything better I can do.

Rgds

Michael.

 

Quite often acorns will already have a root coming from them by now, so I wonder if yours are viable still.
Take the outer casing off one and see what its like inside.

They normally grow like weeds once planted so just potted up an inch or so deep and left outside should be OK, could be May before you see a shoot though.

 

Cheers,
I have potted 7 acorns 1" deep in small pots.
I have left them outside.
Let's see what happens.

Michael.

 

Have you thought of buying a squirrel.
They usually plant them in someone else's garden.

 

Well pete the squirrels who come in my garden plant all kinds of things in my grass then dig them up when they feel like it
Last year the oak tree back of my garden fence i had loads of acorns but this year instead if acorns monkey nuts so xf8u39 keep in eye you never know what can happen lol

 

If I remember right oak trees produce a tap root that will want to go straight down; so you might be better planting the acorns either in the ground in a nursery bed or using deeper pots, root trainers or similar.

 

Hi,

16 bags of acorns this year; bin bags filled with just enough to prevent the bag splitting as they were lifted; the bags were heavy and taken to the tip being dumped in the green waste skip; leaves although lots of them were easy to gather using a Makita cordless blower saving no end of time over trying to sweep with a brush. Last weekend I spent two days up our overhanging oak tree removing the bottom three branches these needing roping to control their descent otherwise lots of damage could have been caused resulting in even more work; 75 year old and up our oak tree using a 20" petrol chainsaw.

The branches were logged and then a neighbour collected them for his wood burner; I didn't want to tire the neighbour out by helping me; on Monday I had the pleasure of shredding a big pile of brash which I enjoyed it being a nice warm sunny afternoon.

Last March I felled 15 very tall trees and disposed of them in terrible conditions; our rear garden was like a mini park.


Access was terrible on the steep slope struggling to stand upright. The garden hut; new steps with fence & handrail in the way.


Ladder was roped to the tree for safety; each branch was double roped one rope near the trunk the other rope well out at the other end; these oak branches are very heavy on the ground even worse up in the air. I made a bow & arrow to fire a string over the outer end allowing the heavy rope to be pulled over an higher branch.


It's a big mature oak overhanging the garden hut and bungalow roof.

It sure opened up daylight and less acorns and leaves next year; I wanted to do this job before new leaves appeared.

Our acorns don't need planting they grow where they drop in the garden and then tiny saplings are so hard to pull out I think they're welded to the ground.

Sorry to hijack your thread Michael but I'm sure you won't have any difficulty in growing from acorns; the trouble comes in 70 years or so when faced with this kind of heavy job; good luck.

Kind regards, Colin.

 

I found Sessile Oaks less easy to grow from seed, do you know which one you have?