Starting off trees from seed/nut

Hi,
A long term project, I know, probably never see them mature.

I have been hunting around for saplings in the woods but no luck.

So, how do you start a tree from acorn/chestnut etc. Deciduous trees only.
Pointers to good websites on this subject much appreciated.

thanks
Howard

 

Howard, in most cases, with native trees, you just pot them up, or plant in a corner of the garden, the seeds when ripe.
Leave them to get the frost over the winter, and away they go in the following spring.

There are a few exeptions, but most of the common trees will grow like weeds, so beware

 

Ha, that reminds me of my mums garden. The squirrels bury horse chestnuts in it and they sprout and form little trees.

 

Hi Howard,

It`s the ultimate unselfish act in gardening. It is a gift, and besides you can see them really-in your mind. I do this all the time-instead of the phantom flan flinger ( maybe a bit before your time) I am the phantom oak planter.

Good for you-it`s easy.

 

I have an oak tree. I planted an acorn when my daughter graduated. It's now about 5 feet tall and needing it's lower branches removed. I have it in a huge container and have nowhere to plant it.

 

Contact the local parks dept and ask if you can plant it somewhere.

They can only say NO.

 

Good idea. Or maybe the local cemetery. It could keep me company later LOL

 

Hi Granny,

Where`s your rock and roll? Just take it somewhere and set it free.

 

When I was 7, I sneekily planted a few conkers in my grandfather's greenhouse one autumn. Next spring, little shoots appeared. Realising what I had done, my grandad left them growing, then transferred the best one to a pot. It got to about 4 or 5 feet tall by the time I was 11, when it was accepted for planting along a new bypass.

As I'm 28 now, it could be 20 feet tall today!

Cedar of Atlas trees seem to grow easily: I pulled about 50 of them, some as much as 6-inches tall, off a flat roof. Very little nutrition there between the moss and the gravel.

 

If you want some English hazelnut /English walnut trees I can send you some of each .from time to time I find little trees in the garden that the jays and squirrels have planted.