I live in Northern California and I planted 50+ quercus lobatas (valley oak) which is a white oak. Every single one, I just gathered the acorn in fall, and buried them in the ground under about an inch of soil covered with mulch and gave them a good soak. I usually had about a 90% success rate. Then once they popped up I covered them with tree tubes and give them some water in our brutally hot and dry summers about once a month and that usually works until they are old enough to handle the dry summer. I started planting about 4 years ago and most of my trees are about 4-6 feet tall now. Just gotta keep the deer away from them when they pop out of the top of the tubes!
@@Dr.Warren I’ve realized that tubes help retain humidity, and they help the trees grow taller faster. I also planted quercus douglasii (blue oak) which is another white oak but they grow wayyy slower than the valley oak. But with the tree tubes, I was able to get almost the same growth rate as the valley oak which was cool.
in my test with the live oaks they tend to grow weather they float or sink ive only conducted 2 pretrial test batches so far so good on all of them they are pretty resilient
I’ve observed the process carefully for water oaks. A crow dropped an acorn into my front flower bed (they like to collect them from near by trees and wait on my roof. When they see a car coming, they fly and drop them in the path of the car so the acorn gets smashed and they can eat the meat). It sat there about a week until water from my gutter down spout helped cover it with soil. Like magic there was a sapling in a few months.
Question: I planted a couple acorns in pots. I guess they are burr oak. The acorns were huge, the size of golf balls. Squirrels got one, but the other germanated -- caged for protection. The second year in the fall I planted the sapling in the ground. Question is, upon germination the plant formed two trunks, should I chop one trunk off? The sapling trunks are about 4 feet tall. Not sure if they will compete.
I would select the best central leader and cut the other one. Eventually you would have a weak crotch angle with two trunks and any big wind/ice storm would split it. I hope that makes sense? Sometimes it can be difficult to explain something in a You tube comment.
We were lucky to have found several baby oaks around our Regal Prince columnar oak but this was interesting to watch. It took almost a decade for him to produce any acorns so we were really excited!
Yes, most oaks take 10-20 years to produce an acorn. The two exceptions off the top of my head is sawtooth oak dwarf chinkapin oak. I have seen them produce a handful of acorns around year 4-5.
If I put the acorns in a moist substrate without covering them completely and simply put the pot in a semi-shade and put a few leaves on them, i.e. I recreated natural conditions, is there a chance that they will sprout in the spring or should I stick to the fridge method?
I just picked a bunch of acorns from the base of a wide spread oak tree I thought might make a good shade tree on the south side. I put them in a glad back and into the freezer. I did see that the wood was white from some sawn branches. I just love the spread of that thing is all. What strength that wood must have to spread such wide branches. Maybe i should just try taking a cutting. I may have bungled it already. As I surrender my ignorance to greater truths.
Hello, from Sweden. I have tried once, but they froze on the balcony... Now I´m on it again. I have gotten some to start growing leaf. But a question, what should I do with my 4 twin acorns tree trunks? Should I cut one of them?
You don’t even need to dig a hole. Just dropping them on ground and leaving them for the winter they will sprout by the thousands. I lived in Grass Valley California for twenty years. Jillions of those oak trees I saw sprout.
I'm in ca and have grown many Quercus Agrifolia and a few Quercus Lobata with great results but I collected Quercus Kelloggi from different trees over the years and never had one germinate, I have read recently that they do take two years to ripen on the tree and must be very fresh and need to be chilled for some time before they will germinate. Any help? My first seeds were from Yosemite valley where there are a couple massive Black Oak (Quercus Kellogg) trees, probably two or three hundred years old.
I am not as well versed in west coast oaks but this sounds like a member of the red oak group and the reason you are having issues with germination. I go over the differences between Red oaks and White oaks in this video. The video is chaptered so you should be able to just click on that specific topic and not have to search for it. I hope this helps. ruclips.net/video/6QI-yJVwSxI/видео.html
@@Dr.Warren I think the acorns i have colleted are bur oak from some videos i have watched, we are in southern on so it does get cold and snowy. not sure what zone this is, near niagara falls.
The air pruning pots I've found online from the company linked here have only 4 holes in the sides (at bottom) and 3 in the bottom. Perhaps you cut your own?
When I made this video air pots were not available to tag as a product on the video. I just went back in and tagged some so you should be able to pick some up via that link.
I think it would be difficult. Maybe in some of the higher elevations outside of the city? I think your limiting factors would be water and getting cool enough for long enough in the winter.
Ha! I have unwanted Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra) seedlings germinating in nearly all of my containerized hardy and subtropical nursery cans, because the resident Eastern Gray Squirrels favor the easily worked mix in these for burying acorns. Overwintering these plants in an unheated porch is effective but unintended stratification. When the seedlings emerge above ground, they already have long taproots.
Yes! Same here. I have a bird of paradise and some citrus I over winter in the garage and occasionally have an oak sprout up in the pot. The root is always deep and a ***** to get out.
@Dr.Warren Oak seedlings generally have only one apical meristem, so the best way to get rid of them is to cut off their top after the true leaves start to expand. This avoids damaging the roots of my container plants; as I have a +75 year old Red Oak that has boom years for acorn production very often, 5 to 21 Oak seedlings per container are the norm! For no logical reason, cutting the tops off of Oak seedlings leaves me more remorseful than pulling them out, acorn, taproot, and all.
You don't 1/2 get some time wasters on here. Just stick an acorn in the ground after 8 weeks in the bottom of the fridge and they'll grow. as planted 700 in Jan and now have about 400 to plant out and all they have had is water and some are 18 " tall.
@@Plantsbugsandgraphicdesigns You're welcome am here to save money not make it. Why waist time watching a video when you can get instructions on 3 lines. I watch a few of these just for fun to see how much people waffle on about something they can give a quick easy answer too. They only do it too make money. never pay a £ for something you can get for a penny.
If you have a high pressure area from deer you can start them tree tubes. www.forestry-suppliers.com/p/17024/16231/protex-pro/gro-solid-tube-tree-protectors?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4Oe4BhCcARIsADQ0csmr_zoG0k_V_ICBAWTCDfxYuLtAdRwOKTSnoicJOKRMBlOY5WtGqY4aAricEALw_wcB
I have a neighbor with a Large Oak Tree that drops millions of acorns that produces hundreds of oak seedlings in my yard. Squirrels dig holes in my yard getting acorns. Ride around your neighborhood, stop where you see an oak tree and ask them for some of their seedlings. I'll bet that they will let you have all you want.
My experience is by the time spring rolls around 50-75% are gone using that method because of bad acorns, squirrels, deer, and racoons digging them up.
I live in Northern California and I planted 50+ quercus lobatas (valley oak) which is a white oak. Every single one, I just gathered the acorn in fall, and buried them in the ground under about an inch of soil covered with mulch and gave them a good soak. I usually had about a 90% success rate. Then once they popped up I covered them with tree tubes and give them some water in our brutally hot and dry summers about once a month and that usually works until they are old enough to handle the dry summer. I started planting about 4 years ago and most of my trees are about 4-6 feet tall now. Just gotta keep the deer away from them when they pop out of the top of the tubes!
Tubes are essential in high deer pressure areas
@@Dr.Warren I’ve realized that tubes help retain humidity, and they help the trees grow taller faster. I also planted quercus douglasii (blue oak) which is another white oak but they grow wayyy slower than the valley oak. But with the tree tubes, I was able to get almost the same growth rate as the valley oak which was cool.
Very helpful , to the point , clear and good visuals
Glad it was helpful!
in my test with the live oaks they tend to grow weather they float or sink ive only conducted 2 pretrial test batches so far so good on all of them they are pretty resilient
Thanks for sharing
Every year I pull dozens of oak trees from my yard thanks to my neighbor's trees.
I’ve observed the process carefully for water oaks. A crow dropped an acorn into my front flower bed (they like to collect them from near by trees and wait on my roof. When they see a car coming, they fly and drop them in the path of the car so the acorn gets smashed and they can eat the meat). It sat there about a week until water from my gutter down spout helped cover it with soil. Like magic there was a sapling in a few months.
Question: I planted a couple acorns in pots. I guess they are burr oak. The acorns were huge, the size of golf balls. Squirrels got one, but the other germanated -- caged for protection. The second year in the fall I planted the sapling in the ground. Question is, upon germination the plant formed two trunks, should I chop one trunk off? The sapling trunks are about 4 feet tall. Not sure if they will compete.
I would select the best central leader and cut the other one. Eventually you would have a weak crotch angle with two trunks and any big wind/ice storm would split it. I hope that makes sense? Sometimes it can be difficult to explain something in a You tube comment.
We were lucky to have found several baby oaks around our Regal Prince columnar oak but this was interesting to watch. It took almost a decade for him to produce any acorns so we were really excited!
Yes, most oaks take 10-20 years to produce an acorn. The two exceptions off the top of my head is sawtooth oak dwarf chinkapin oak. I have seen them produce a handful of acorns around year 4-5.
Beautiful sharing 🎉❤ 8:28
Thanks for the kind words
Thanks for the video.
I'm not finding the pots you used in the video. Description still has a different pot than the air pruning pot.
Search the greenhouse megastore website. The Amazon link I have up has slightly changed the style.
Search " tree pots" . There's many manf's/ vendors to choose from.
Group them in a larger container to hold upright.
Great....simple guide ....thank you
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment
If I put the acorns in a moist substrate without covering them completely and simply put the pot in a semi-shade and put a few leaves on them, i.e. I recreated natural conditions, is there a chance that they will sprout in the spring or should I stick to the fridge method?
They should come up
@@Dr.Warren thanks
I just picked a bunch of acorns from the base of a wide spread oak tree I thought might make a good shade tree on the south side. I put them in a glad back and into the freezer. I did see that the wood was white from some sawn branches. I just love the spread of that thing is all. What strength that wood must have to spread such wide branches. Maybe i should just try taking a cutting. I may have bungled it already. As I surrender my ignorance to greater truths.
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Hello, from Sweden. I have tried once, but they froze on the balcony... Now I´m on it again. I have gotten some to start growing leaf. But a question, what should I do with my 4 twin acorns tree trunks? Should I cut one of them?
I'm general you want a central leader.
You don’t even need to dig a hole. Just dropping them on ground and leaving them for the winter they will sprout by the thousands. I lived in Grass Valley California for twenty years. Jillions of those oak trees I saw sprout.
I'm in ca and have grown many Quercus Agrifolia and a few Quercus Lobata with great results but I collected Quercus Kelloggi from different trees over the years and never had one germinate, I have read recently that they do take two years to ripen on the tree and must be very fresh and need to be chilled for some time before they will germinate. Any help? My first seeds were from Yosemite valley where there are a couple massive Black Oak (Quercus Kellogg) trees, probably two or three hundred years old.
I am not as well versed in west coast oaks but this sounds like a member of the red oak group and the reason you are having issues with germination. I go over the differences between Red oaks and White oaks in this video. The video is chaptered so you should be able to just click on that specific topic and not have to search for it. I hope this helps.
ruclips.net/video/6QI-yJVwSxI/видео.html
what if you get snow and the ground freezes will these pots be ok outside?
White oak is hardy to zone 3 so zone 4 and south it should be just fine outside. The snow would actually help insulate the tree.
@@Dr.Warren I think the acorns i have colleted are bur oak from some videos i have watched, we are in southern on so it does get cold and snowy. not sure what zone this is, near niagara falls.
The air pruning pots I've found online from the company linked here have only 4 holes in the sides (at bottom) and 3 in the bottom. Perhaps you cut your own?
Yes, that would work
Do you have a product name/# for the pots you’re using? The ones on shown online don’t have all the holes like the ones in the video. Thanks
When I made this video air pots were not available to tag as a product on the video. I just went back in and tagged some so you should be able to pick some up via that link.
I need some of them pots
I just looked to send you a link and they do not have this exact pot anymore. There are similar out there.
What about Live oaks?
This should work
@@Dr.Warren
Plant the acorn right away which is soon or can it be stored?
Is it possible to grow oaks in the Phoenix Az. area?
I think it would be difficult. Maybe in some of the higher elevations outside of the city? I think your limiting factors would be water and getting cool enough for long enough in the winter.
Dear Plant Doctor, can I have the link where I can buy the deep tree planting pots?
Thank you!!!!
I think I went back and tagged it and it should pop up on the banner now.
@@Dr.Warren Muchas gracias. Thank you! I'll take a look.
Ha! I have unwanted Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra) seedlings germinating in nearly all of my containerized hardy and subtropical nursery cans, because the resident Eastern Gray Squirrels favor the easily worked mix in these for burying acorns. Overwintering these plants in an unheated porch is effective but unintended stratification. When the seedlings emerge above ground, they already have long taproots.
Yes! Same here. I have a bird of paradise and some citrus I over winter in the garage and occasionally have an oak sprout up in the pot. The root is always deep and a ***** to get out.
@Dr.Warren Oak seedlings generally have only one apical meristem, so the best way to get rid of them is to cut off their top after the true leaves start to expand. This avoids damaging the roots of my container plants; as I have a +75 year old Red Oak that has boom years for acorn production very often, 5 to 21 Oak seedlings per container are the norm! For no logical reason, cutting the tops off of Oak seedlings leaves me more remorseful than pulling them out, acorn, taproot, and all.
Overcup white oak doesn’t grow till spring like the red oaks
You don't 1/2 get some time wasters on here. Just stick an acorn in the ground after 8 weeks in the bottom of the fridge and they'll grow. as planted 700 in Jan and now have about 400 to plant out and all they have had is water and some are 18 " tall.
You're my hero, thank you for summing that up so succinctly!
@@Plantsbugsandgraphicdesigns You're welcome am here to save money not make it. Why waist time watching a video when you can get instructions on 3 lines. I watch a few of these just for fun to see how much people waffle on about something they can give a quick easy answer too. They only do it too make money. never pay a £ for something you can get for a penny.
How do I stop the deer from eating these very young trees????
If you have a high pressure area from deer you can start them tree tubes.
www.forestry-suppliers.com/p/17024/16231/protex-pro/gro-solid-tube-tree-protectors?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4Oe4BhCcARIsADQ0csmr_zoG0k_V_ICBAWTCDfxYuLtAdRwOKTSnoicJOKRMBlOY5WtGqY4aAricEALw_wcB
I have a neighbor with a Large Oak Tree that drops millions of acorns that produces hundreds of oak seedlings in my yard. Squirrels dig holes in my yard getting acorns. Ride around your neighborhood, stop where you see an oak tree and ask them for some of their seedlings. I'll bet that they will let you have all you want.
Great idea thanks for sharing
Um...put an acorn in the dirt and keep it watered but not too much
Step 1: Dig a hole Step 2: put the acorn in the hole Step 3: wait 🤤🤤🤤
My experience is by the time spring rolls around 50-75% are gone using that method because of bad acorns, squirrels, deer, and racoons digging them up.