Long ago, about 55 years ago, we had a white oak in our front yard. I was around 7 years old. I think it got old and started dying, so my dad cut it down and left some stump. I put some dirt there and planted one of the acorns. It grew. And grew, and grew. I drove past the house after being gone many years, and now it's a magnificent tree. 🌳💓
I found a small field 5 years back and been planting oaks ever since. "Anyone who plants a tree, knowing that they'll never bask in it's shade, truly knows the meaning of life."
This, I'm trying to set up my own little field and plant various species so my baby niece and possible her children can enjoy the shade and nut harvests to come once I'm resting.
I planted my first acorn when I was 10 I think. I swear to god it took 1 year to sprout, but 10 years later it's waaaay taller than me and is thriving :D I'm really proud of my tree
I’m growing oak trees, and in just 1 week, my saplings doubled in size. Update: I did 3 oak trees. One died a few days after planting, another died right after transplanting it outside in spring, and the last one got eaten in September but it grew back from its roots and looks perfectly healthy!
A suggestion that I learned from grow my Lemmon trees. Indoor growth: put an oscillating fan on it. This will cause the trunk to be a lot stronger. Like the wind would be for it outside. You will have to water it more often but the roots and trunk will be strong and not flop over from the weight of the leaves.
Yes! It is also why I only sprout my plants in soil rather than water. Over MANY years of practice I’ve learned that the roots are far stronger that way. The fan is an excellent idea.
Greetings fellow Tennessean. I've been collecting white oak acorns on our property to plant more. The deer love them. Might take too long for them to mature for me and my dad to enjoy that benefit but hopefully my kids will able to enjoy better hunts because of them.
I'm sold on white oaks - thank you so much for this. I'd absolutely love to hear anything more that you've learned while growing these little guys, as I'll definitely be attempting to germinate about 120 of them over the following couple years, mostly intending to plant them among the tree stumps of logged areas in my community, and donating them to those who wish to see a healthier earth, just like us.
Hi Robyn, I see your pos is now 4 months old. How is it going with your baby oak trees? I'm thinking to get started, but just wanted to see what other people's experiences have been.
I live surrounded by trees, and have my whole life. I hadn't even realised how many oak trees were in my yard until I was walking around and found an acorn on the ground last year and I suddenly became invested in planting as many as I could. I go outside everyday to get the freshest ones that have fallen, I'm going to collect as many as I can and then mass plant them. Thank you for helping to guide me in the right direction on how to plant the acorns and grow my own oaks.
Ditto here as well Lynnette and well done. We have 3 oaks by our place and they drop so many but they are right on the road so they get mashed. Seeing as how we human only take and trash, it's my good deed for life. Every morning I'm out picking up the biggest ones I can find and driving to my different jobs they get lobbed into the hedges and thickets that the council tractors can't reach to trim. After this film I'll be germinating them in pots first.
@@petergambier I have the same problem, there's about four trees on my property line that drop a lot of acorns right on the driveway. And I agree that humans do leave a lot of things worse than when they left it, which is why it's so important to spread the word on what can make the world better from when you got here. Good luck and God bless. :)
Hey! Its been 2 years since this video was uploaded, can you make an other video on the progress of the plants? Not these in particular if they didnt survive but the other oaks too
I've done my part , I'm 50 years old now in 2020 and i've planted right around 15 trees more or less in that time frame . I hope over the next 50 years I can plant even more .
@@williamwaha3193 Easiest and cheapest way to combat climate change and CO2 if you think that's something that needs to be addressed as badly as it's been made out to be. Especially with these big oak trees that take a long time to fully grow. And they're fire resistant according to a brief read on Wikipedia anyway.
@@Junokaii problem, of course, is CO2 doesn't drive climate change, climate change drives CO2. The data is extremely clear on this, and yet none of you who talk about this stuff seem to know it.
@@zarroth Well I don't personally buy it i just like the idea of planting trees just cause. And more or less to help my immediate environment since obviously I or anyone can't do anything about it globally. I ain't worried.
@@williamwaha3193 I have 54 trees of varying type on my suburban property which is quite a modest size.......at the moment I'm relocating small 2 year old Mountain Ash saplings that have self rooted from two that also self rooted.
Thanks for this, I appreciate it, I’m trying to help replant some trees in the forest by my house since they keep getting cut down so the info helps alot
Same with me,,, I'm an addict! lol,,,, I'd say I have over 2,000 nuts of all kinds, waiting in the outside fridge for me to get busy. One more month & I'll start placing them into barrel containers that are down my cellar. 60-65*. In 2-3 months, they might ALL start growing! Heart nuts, English walnuts, White oaks, burr oaks & swamp oaks. Plus, 3 varieties of chestnuts AND pink buckeyes! I also start 5 different grapes from cuttings, kiwi, persimmons & crabapples. Cherry, peach pear, plum & apples from seeds. LOL,, send me your email & I'll send you some pictures.?
I have also done this with oak acorns. I have about 20 oak trees in pots between 2 and 5 years old. I also have lots of maples too including my favourite Sycamore which my Dad found and planted for me 24 years ago, this tree is featured on my youtube logo and appears in many of my videos :) Thanks for sharing your acorn experience.
This was really helpful. I am planning on starting a business on selling trees this summer. This is the way I planned on doing it because there is a large oak tree in my front yard that drops hundreds of acorns each year. Once again I thank a lot for this and keep up the videos dude.🙂
Thank you very much, I just found a daughter of a huge white oak and the tap root was emerging, I am going to take care of her successfully thanks to you. 🙏🏻
We bought an old worn out farm with hardy any soil left, I planted 1500 hundred mixed nut seedlings . And the following years well over 10,000 mixed nuts all by hand. That was 12 yrs ago, I am now getting regeneration from some of them.
I grow weed and had a bunch of oak trees pop up in my pots inside under my lights. I keep my soil mix outside in a kiddie pool under the shed so I guess the squirrels must've buried acorns in there. They're doing well under the lights though, and I want to take them to the park to plant after I harvest this weed. Maybe my new obsession will be growing trees
❤ i planted 5 sessile oak acorns last Sept, pots on window sill indoors. 1 sprouted, 4 didn't. I plan to do the same later this year with maybe 20 to 30 acorns. I read on a tree council website that oak trees drop the non viable acorns first, then the "big fall" happens a while later. Everyone should sow acorns, our planet needs more trees.
Just started a seed that my little sister brought home from school a while back; was inspired to start it because of how fast climate change is taking effect and how long we actually have left to fix it. It has been 3 weeks since and now the single seed has grown its first roots. I was heavily inspired from this video too and I learned so much from it, thanks
Hello Iowa In that same Derecho , I call it a Tidal Wind I lost a oak that was 13 feet in cicumference I am still cutting up that tree. It was some storml
Squirrels planted, unbeknown to me, my White Oak acorn in a large terra cotta pot filled with potting soil. When it sprouted I let it grow to a height of about three feet then transplanted it to my yard. It grew to a height of about Tennessee feet and I put Jobe tree spikes (fertilizer) around the tree’s drip line (the point of widest spread of horizontal limbs. That was 18 years ago. Today my tree is about 50 feet high and has a trunk diameter of 2.5 feet when measured 4 feet off the ground. In areas where the White Oak can get good water and in live silty loam soils they grow like gangbusters.
I’ve been doing this for years. I’ve found by placing the acorn inside a plastic zip lock bag withe a wet paper towel is the best way to germinate it or cause it to root. Next I place it into a plastic pot an place it on a shelve in the morning sun. It’s a great hobby and I have trees that I planted over 100 ft tall.
I found 2 sprouted acorns on the sidewalk of my school, so i potted them and so far they are doing great. I had 0 experience with trees and ive killed all of my other plants but my trees are growing perfectly
My Grandson just found a monster acorn google snap said it was a white oak which brought me here, Now I can show him so he can plant it, Thank you btw his brown hope its still plantable we only found one.
If you find WHITE OAK nuts, laying under their tree,,, try to use some of that same dirt for re-planting or potting. If everything is right, they should start to throw out roots in a week or two,,,, anyway, before they turn completely brown & rot. White oaks can sometimes be very particular with different types of soils, & just won't grow. last fall. I raked up thousands of white oak nuts (over 30 gallons) I placed them on the ground & covered them over with leaves, back in the woods. & only 2 of the nuts sprouted & grew. Now,,,, if you can get your hands on a pile of BURR OAK nuts, (also the white oak family) and place them in a fridge all winter to harden them off, just about every one of those nuts will root & thrive,,,, easily. & the huge trees are awesome.
thanks man i was looking for an company that sells organic non GMO seedling oak tress on the east cost but can't find anything, its kind of an impossible task for me to grow and try to plant it on my own but thanks for the motivation and knowledge. Keep up the good work.
I grabbed some healthy acorn from an Oak tree in texas. Took them back to Nor-Cal out in the country where I'm at. I've got 4 acorns/hopeful's in some good soil for about 11 days now.
There was a tree along the river with a rope tied to an overhanging branch. Young folks must've had been enjoying swing into the river for a long time, as there used to be a boy scout campground there. The park cut it down, for insurance liability reasons. It think it was an oak. I want to plant a new one for future generations to enjoy.
Where I live, there are tonnes of oak trees ∴ tonnes of acorns, and tonnes of squirrels. The squirrels go crazy , and bury acorns all over the place in the fall, leading to more than dozens of little sproutlings in people's manicured lawns every spring (doing the germination for us!). I saved a couple last year (after they had been mowed over multiple times), thought they had all died when they lost their handful of leaves earlier than expected/generally seemed dried out, but I held on to one anyway - lo and behold, this year it's already sprouting new leaves! Now I'm trying to decide if I should nip its new growth or if I should just leave it alone (ehh... I'll leave it alone, and focus on shaping it and doing more to encourage growth for shaping when it's older c: ), but am looking forward to picking some new plants that squirrels surely germinated for us this last year Houseplants taken out of their natural environments would lead one to believe that plants are finnicky and not particularly robust (I keep killing common junipers that I'm trying to treat as bonzai :/ ), but after hundreds of thousands to millions of years of evolution, surprise surprise, they're pretty robust in the appropriate environment/growing conditions (really shouldn't be a surprise, but it still amazes me)! Makes me think of germinating lima beans in elementary school - it was amazing, but I feel I forgot as an adult how cool it is - thanks for re-inspiring interest for people with a video like this!
If anything your video is quite inspirational as I’ve just got into having green fingers and I’m trying to do it as cheap as possible which if anything is a really good thing as it’s going to mean I will be harvesting tree seeds that are the most native they can be so can’t really do it wrong in that respect got plenty learning to do though so thank you for sharing your knowledge!! Cheers.
The “Foresters” clear cut 273 acres of old, old oak trees that two people together could hardly reach around. It was all the property that surrounded a beautiful 120 acre lake on which we owned a small lot. They were in there for months, haulin’ those trees out. It was a total wasteland, except for one oak tree they left standing. Three days later they came and cut the oak down and just let it lie there. My sons and I got the idea to pick up as many acorns as we could, back at our house, as they were falling at the time. We hauled grocery bags full of acorns up there and scattered them everywhere. The pines started coming up but slowly the oaks started emerging. Years later we were tickled to see oak trees popping up everywhere! Although, they would never replace the Oaks that were taken, (never in three lifetimes)it was a small, sly little sliver of accomplishment. Well, just as they were starting to get 15-20’ tall, they came and thinned the pine stand, taking about half of “our” oaks. Bummer. The ones they missed have gotten so big over the years, and we were happy about that. The stories of all the time we spent walking under and playing around those giant oaks of old, are often told as we walk under our “young” oaks that we planted. They are 60’-70’ tall now and we were able to purchase 30 acres of the land. It will never, ever come close to how beautiful it once was, but it brings us joy knowing we did what we could, and we continue to do more.
New sub great channel! I planted a dozen five foot tall bare root bur oaks last year and 25 more this year (we are restoring the Oak Savanna on our property). We have quite a few bur oaks in the area, but I couldn't find a single acorn for the last couple of years. The red oaks are putting out a few, but none to be seen on the whites. Going to try from cuttings again this year.
It’s been almost 3 years since you put this video out and it’s still great! In fact, after purchasing some acorns from them, a tree farmer had suggested this video to me to get me started quickly. So here’s the thing… I’m currently in New York City: plant zone 7b, and I want to nurse all of my acorns in-house until say, late June to early July; where then I will move them outside in to the ground in Cheraw, South Carolina: plant zone 8a. I put the white oak acorn seeds in a clear 4 mill plymor bag, snuggled in a damp paper towel and sitting at the bottom drawer of my fridge. If I want them to be their strongest and healthiest before I sow them late June to early July, When would it be okay to take them out of the fridge and sow them in a long funnel pot to promote long tap-root growth? How soon should I sow them before I pack them up for my trip to South Carolina and transfer them to the dirt? How should I package them for a safe, one day trip? When I sow the acorns, can I use prepuchased whole peat moss rather than mulch? I really appreciate you dearly for all of your help. Thank you!
This video taught us how to lay an acorn in dirt, but not how wet or damp the soil should be when planting them. Or if the soil should be watered or moistened during the waiting/sprouting period. My soil started to become dry just as it was beginning to sprout, so I watered it (apparently too much) and the sprout ended up dying of root-rot from being too wet. I didn’t realize until too late, that the information I’d learned here didn’t cover the *most* important part. The medium it grows in.
@@greenthinking7247 Omg, thank you so much! I didn’t see it because the info was collapsed in the mobile app, so it only showed the top two paragraphs, the basic description of the video. Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me. ☺️☺️☺️
I have just began pulling the saplings out of the garden. They were growing along the vegetables, I didn't want to just throw them in the compost. These plants seem to grow deep roots and can grow in between cracks in between rocks, where I found one of them. Along with these I have found maple saplings scattered which seem to grow in similar conditions but have shallow roots, or were easily pulled out. I put all of them in separate pots.
I've learned that planting in a clear spot, away from any other tree, out of the drip line of other plants, will give it more sun, and wind that will make the trunk stronger by it's nateral resistance. The allround sun will allow a more even, rounded limb grouth. You will be happy with it's results.
I have a hundred oak I’ve or squirrels have planted. Most r big enough to b free of predators as for some reason they’ll chew them off especially during winter but I still put a 4’cage around each one to save my work. A learning experience. I have more than in the whole neighborhood. Would love to see the hood in a hundred years from now. I’ll rip knowing I did my deed.
Hi i started my acorns last nov started them in the fridge in moist vermiculite worked fine i grew them inside under a led plant light until april then put them in a pot and put outside now there about a foot tall.
I have propagated a number of acorns with a variety of success and I can boast that they are presently flourishing in the UK countrywide. My occasional downfall has been getting to the acorns before the squirrels do and netting them once growth develops..
Thanks for sharing! I been tempting to plant beech trees and some other trees around my area I been wanting to plant especially the bigger and older beeches we have sides lots of beech trees around here starting to die out from fungus/ getting cut over in general and sometimes from the strong gusty winds. But that's something I didn't know about of the water test, so the ones that flout they must be empty. I noticed that with some of our maple trees trees some puds were full when I cracked them open just to see the seed, others seed puds from the same maple were halo.
2 questions: After transplanting my oak tree outside last April after planting it in October 2021, keeping it inside all of last winter, my oak tree lost its main stem in September and all that was left of it was a 1 inch tall stub. It grew 2 branches to the side, but as of November 9, 2022, my oak tree still isn’t changing color and it didn’t grow back the main stem. Will my oak tree grow back its main stem next summer? When will my oak tree change color?
Greetings, I’ve got 5 white oak seedlings in a huge pot. I live in central Illinois. I would like to separate and repot them. Once I get that done, do I winter them over inside? Our winters can be harsh. Thanks, Mike
Thanks for putting this up Green Thinking. Nicely explained and illustrated thanks. I have to recommend a book to you called Wilding by Isabella Tree. The introduction is really depressing so leave that till you finish the book. Chapter 1 is about Oaks and ancient Oaks and the symbiotic relationship between the jay and this species of tree that is astounding, and true. The rest of the book is quite an extraordinary journey of selling off their dairy herd and cereals equipment in 2001 just before the foot & mouth virus decimated so many old farms and their livestock with hooves. By taking out the drainage in the fields not only did they restore the equilibrium they also stopped the flooding of the villages below their 5,000 acres and are finally turning a profit because they don't feed or care for their free-ranging Dartmoor ponies, longhorn cattle, pigs and deer, they care for themselves and are left to wander the fields and woodland that they manage at the Knepp estate.
So I started some this Fall. I let them get about the size of yours and put them in the garage. I read the trees that start germinating in the Fall have to go through a cold stratification after germinating or they won’t grow well.
im in the u.k and while american pin oaks do grow here ,our native species are sessile ,pendunculate and holm oaks .I grew some pendunculate oaks back in 2019 ,sadly the heatwave wiped them out ,j ust gathered some more for a retry next year
Great video! I have some questions. What season did you plant this in? What potting soil/mix did you use? Do I need to bring these in in the winter as seedlings or can they stay outside in the winter?
I have a Thousand Acorns to plant in November or December, when the ground gets wet. They are going right into the ground. If I get Twenty Trees out of that, I will be happy. That might be the best way to play the numbers game, for Maximum Reforestation.
Long ago, about 55 years ago, we had a white oak in our front yard. I was around 7 years old. I think it got old and started dying, so my dad cut it down and left some stump. I put some dirt there and planted one of the acorns. It grew. And grew, and grew. I drove past the house after being gone many years, and now it's a magnificent tree. 🌳💓
Awesome 👏
🙏🙏
LMBO,,,,, Your a Genuine 'JOHNNY NUT SEED'!!! Congrats!
I found a small field 5 years back and been planting oaks ever since.
"Anyone who plants a tree, knowing that they'll never bask in it's shade, truly knows the meaning of life."
I've planted oak trees that I have enjoyed already.
This, I'm trying to set up my own little field and plant various species so my baby niece and possible her children can enjoy the shade and nut harvests to come once I'm resting.
I wish to be alive again when man plays the long game and the world is built to last in eternal beauty. Make Tartaria Grand Again! 🏴
I planted my first acorn when I was 10 I think. I swear to god it took 1 year to sprout, but 10 years later it's waaaay taller than me and is thriving :D
I'm really proud of my tree
Nice
Awesome!
@Rob I hope so too. Yesterday I've planted another one😁
Meredith Skye me too but it died
I hate you
Panted 2 trees using this method, 20 some years ago, now I have nice trees. Nice video.
Amazing
I’m growing oak trees, and in just 1 week, my saplings doubled in size.
Update: I did 3 oak trees. One died a few days after planting, another died right after transplanting it outside in spring, and the last one got eaten in September but it grew back from its roots and looks perfectly healthy!
Oak Trees are like the living Dinosaurs of our Planet 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌰🌰🌰
Olà Paul Connecticut 👍🏼 j'ai une petite chaîne jardin en Algarve 🍊🍌🍋 au sud du Portugal 🇵🇹 bienvenue bonne continuation 😘 et à bientôt j'espère dom 💌
The humble squirrel plants more trees than any creature on earth.
A suggestion that I learned from grow my Lemmon trees. Indoor growth: put an oscillating fan on it. This will cause the trunk to be a lot stronger. Like the wind would be for it outside. You will have to water it more often but the roots and trunk will be strong and not flop over from the weight of the leaves.
Exactly
Yes! It is also why I only sprout my plants in soil rather than water. Over MANY years of practice I’ve learned that the roots are far stronger that way. The fan is an excellent idea.
Greetings fellow Tennessean. I've been collecting white oak acorns on our property to plant more. The deer love them. Might take too long for them to mature for me and my dad to enjoy that benefit but hopefully my kids will able to enjoy better hunts because of them.
We are losing so many plants and trees every day that those that care about growing new trees are making a difference in a positive way.
Amen! Every tree matters
Not true. The amount of forest cover on the planet is actually growing the last decade believe it or not.
True and it's only getting better. Even i have started planting and tending to a new generation of oak trees.
#teamtrees
Dont worry, the tree team gotcha
Something just fascinates me about planting a tree, something that will live for many years after you have left this earth 🌎🌳
I'm sold on white oaks - thank you so much for this. I'd absolutely love to hear anything more that you've learned while growing these little guys, as I'll definitely be attempting to germinate about 120 of them over the following couple years, mostly intending to plant them among the tree stumps of logged areas in my community, and donating them to those who wish to see a healthier earth, just like us.
Hi Robyn, I see your pos is now 4 months old. How is it going with your baby oak trees? I'm thinking to get started, but just wanted to see what other people's experiences have been.
I live surrounded by trees, and have my whole life. I hadn't even realised how many oak trees were in my yard until I was walking around and found an acorn on the ground last year and I suddenly became invested in planting as many as I could. I go outside everyday to get the freshest ones that have fallen, I'm going to collect as many as I can and then mass plant them. Thank you for helping to guide me in the right direction on how to plant the acorns and grow my own oaks.
SO happy to hear! God bless you and keep planting!
Ditto here as well Lynnette and well done. We have 3 oaks by our place and they drop so many but they are right on the road so they get mashed. Seeing as how we human only take and trash, it's my good deed for life.
Every morning I'm out picking up the biggest ones I can find and driving to my different jobs they get lobbed into the hedges and thickets that the council tractors can't reach to trim.
After this film I'll be germinating them in pots first.
@@petergambier I have the same problem, there's about four trees on my property line that drop a lot of acorns right on the driveway. And I agree that humans do leave a lot of things worse than when they left it, which is why it's so important to spread the word on what can make the world better from when you got here. Good luck and God bless. :)
It's such a miracle that a little acorn will grow over 1 million times it's size and produce tens of thousands more acorns to grow thousands of trees!
Yes I wish people would see that and believe there is a God
they also can house hundreds of different species when full grown :D like a whole ecosystem haha
@@buddhabunneethat is so cool I did not know that and it makes those trees even more magical! 🌳😊
@@YeshuaisKing777tone day my friend, people will! 🙏💖😊
@@YeshuaisKing777teh?
I need to go gather a bunch of acorns now, thanks for the video
nows the time!!!
Hey! Its been 2 years since this video was uploaded, can you make an other video on the progress of the plants? Not these in particular if they didnt survive but the other oaks too
If everyone in the world planted 5 trees, we would have 40 billion more trees.
I've done my part , I'm 50 years old now in 2020 and i've planted right around 15 trees more or less in that time frame . I hope over the next 50 years I can plant even more .
@@williamwaha3193 Easiest and cheapest way to combat climate change and CO2 if you think that's something that needs to be addressed as badly as it's been made out to be. Especially with these big oak trees that take a long time to fully grow. And they're fire resistant according to a brief read on Wikipedia anyway.
@@Junokaii problem, of course, is CO2 doesn't drive climate change, climate change drives CO2. The data is extremely clear on this, and yet none of you who talk about this stuff seem to know it.
@@zarroth Well I don't personally buy it i just like the idea of planting trees just cause. And more or less to help my immediate environment since obviously I or anyone can't do anything about it globally. I ain't worried.
@@williamwaha3193 I have 54 trees of varying type on my suburban property which is quite a modest size.......at the moment I'm relocating small 2 year old Mountain Ash saplings that have self rooted from two that also self rooted.
It's okay to be yourself. Don't listen to the complainers who seek to control you. Great video.
Thank you! They got nothing on green thinking!
Thanks for this, I appreciate it, I’m trying to help replant some trees in the forest by my house since they keep getting cut down so the info helps alot
Hi, how is that going? I'm about to get started with this, have you had any success?
I don’t know what got into me but I’m obsessed with gather as many oak acorn types as possible. Ready to start planting
Same with me,,, I'm an addict! lol,,,, I'd say I have over 2,000 nuts of all kinds, waiting in the outside fridge for me to get busy.
One more month & I'll start placing them into barrel containers that are down my cellar. 60-65*.
In 2-3 months, they might ALL start growing!
Heart nuts, English walnuts, White oaks, burr oaks & swamp oaks. Plus, 3 varieties of chestnuts AND pink buckeyes!
I also start 5 different grapes from cuttings, kiwi, persimmons & crabapples. Cherry, peach pear, plum & apples from seeds.
LOL,, send me your email & I'll send you some pictures.?
Best video on this I’ve seen. I’ve been doing this as a hobby through trial and error. Trying to grow a tree in a pot until it is at least 3 feet
I have also done this with oak acorns. I have about 20 oak trees in pots between 2 and 5 years old. I also have lots of maples too including my favourite Sycamore which my Dad found and planted for me 24 years ago, this tree is featured on my youtube logo and appears in many of my videos :) Thanks for sharing your acorn experience.
I'm expecting great things from this channel....
Appreciated!
Yeah I have been looking for a good channel about plants
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
-Chinese proverb
Big facts!!!
The third best time....
... there is no third time
The best time to listen to Russ Saari was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
@@sparkymahoney4343 yeah lol
no worries i have 30 seeds of birch in my fridge
I was just going to challenge your assessment as a Burr Oak and then saw your Disclaimer. Well done.
I did not know that you did not have to stratify white oaks. That explains some things I have seen in the past. You made me a fraction smarter. Thx
This was really helpful. I am planning on starting a business on selling trees this summer. This is the way I planned on doing it because there is a large oak tree in my front yard that drops hundreds of acorns each year. Once again I thank a lot for this and keep up the videos dude.🙂
How much do you charge and what age are they when you sell them?
Ashley Smashley I don’t do it yet but I’m working on it
@@ethanmfv6963 did you ever get started?
Thank you very much, I just found a daughter of a huge white oak and the tap root was emerging, I am going to take care of her successfully thanks to you. 🙏🏻
We bought an old worn out farm with hardy any soil left, I planted 1500 hundred mixed nut seedlings . And the following years well over 10,000 mixed nuts all by hand. That was 12 yrs ago, I am now getting regeneration from some of them.
I grow weed and had a bunch of oak trees pop up in my pots inside under my lights. I keep my soil mix outside in a kiddie pool under the shed so I guess the squirrels must've buried acorns in there. They're doing well under the lights though, and I want to take them to the park to plant after I harvest this weed. Maybe my new obsession will be growing trees
Great to see a young man interested in growing trees. Thumbs up and a sub.
❤ i planted 5 sessile oak acorns last Sept, pots on window sill indoors. 1 sprouted, 4 didn't. I plan to do the same later this year with maybe 20 to 30 acorns. I read on a tree council website that oak trees drop the non viable acorns first, then the "big fall" happens a while later. Everyone should sow acorns, our planet needs more trees.
Last fall I took in one of my potted geraniums for the winter and now there are 2 white oak trees growing in the pot. Thanks Mr. Squirrel! 😆
I just started to grow my own tooo! what A NICE HOBBY :) #happygrowing #makeyourown #everyday
I have a huge (50ft+) coast live oak that I’m trying this with! I hope it grows into a beautiful oak!
Well, i planted my white oak acorns in september, and im glad to say i have 20 sprouted baby oaks! Along with some red ones and sugar maples.
Just started a seed that my little sister brought home from school a while back; was inspired to start it because of how fast climate change is taking effect and how long we actually have left to fix it. It has been 3 weeks since and now the single seed has grown its first roots. I was heavily inspired from this video too and I learned so much from it, thanks
How is the tree now?
@@abnormal_asian5320 it died with the summer heat of 117f but it was able to get to 9 inches tall and I found myself another seed to start this year!
@@lark6687 woo!! Good luck!
After the Derecho we had last summer in Iowa we will be planting a lot of acorns to replace trees lost. Thanks!
Hello Iowa In that same Derecho , I call it a Tidal Wind I lost a oak that was 13 feet in cicumference I am still cutting up that tree. It was some storml
I collected acorns with my kids last year for Department of Wildlife Resources and this year I will collect them and begin trees for myself
Squirrels planted, unbeknown to me, my White Oak acorn in a large terra cotta pot filled with potting soil. When it sprouted I let it grow to a height of about three feet then transplanted it to my yard. It grew to a height of about Tennessee feet and I put Jobe tree spikes (fertilizer) around the tree’s drip line (the point of widest spread of horizontal limbs.
That was 18 years ago. Today my tree is about 50 feet high and has a trunk diameter of 2.5 feet when measured 4 feet off the ground. In areas where the White Oak can get good water and in live silty loam soils they grow like gangbusters.
Amazing story! Thank you for sharing!
I’ve been doing this for years. I’ve found by placing the acorn inside a plastic zip lock bag withe a wet paper towel is the best way to germinate it or cause it to root. Next I place it into a plastic pot an place it on a shelve in the morning sun. It’s a great hobby and I have trees that I planted over 100 ft tall.
Thats great! Most people use that method and it works well
Thank you 🏡🌞
How long does it take approximately to germinate with this method?
@@mayoffnaise5141 it took over a month this year in my basement window to get an about one inch stem. Should be getting leaves soon.
@thomas reece Thank you and sorry to bother you. Is it this long that it stays in the zip lock bag?
I found 2 sprouted acorns on the sidewalk of my school, so i potted them and so far they are doing great. I had 0 experience with trees and ive killed all of my other plants but my trees are growing perfectly
WOW,,, congrats! How are they doing!?
@jdoboy6835 alive and thriving
I’ve planted 4 Moringa trees from seed that are 12 feet tall. Also have many cool bonsai from seed!
I have red&white oaks in my yard so I will collect both and winter sow them this winter so i can sell them or plant them outside next spring.
Do the white oaks because the wild animals like the less bitter white oak nuts. Save a Chipmunk
My Grandson just found a monster acorn google snap said it was a white oak which brought me here, Now I can show him so he can plant it, Thank you btw his brown hope its still plantable we only found one.
If you find WHITE OAK nuts, laying under their tree,,, try to use some of that same dirt for re-planting or potting. If everything is right, they should start to throw out roots in a week or two,,,, anyway, before they turn completely brown & rot.
White oaks can sometimes be very particular with different types of soils, & just won't grow.
last fall. I raked up thousands of white oak nuts (over 30 gallons) I placed them on the ground & covered them over with leaves, back in the woods. & only 2 of the nuts sprouted & grew.
Now,,,, if you can get your hands on a pile of BURR OAK nuts, (also the white oak family) and place them in a fridge all winter to harden them off, just about every one of those nuts will root & thrive,,,, easily. & the huge trees are awesome.
thanks man i was looking for an company that sells organic non GMO seedling oak tress on the east cost but can't find anything, its kind of an impossible task for me to grow and try to plant it on my own but thanks for the motivation and knowledge. Keep up the good work.
Check out the arbor day foundation, they have some great stuff!
I've potted 5 seedlings today though haven't done the health test though now I know to leave them in a cool place for a while with not too much sun!
That is a frighteningly positive stat!!
Great job in growing the acorns.
My favorite tree.
I grabbed some healthy acorn from an Oak tree in texas. Took them back to Nor-Cal out in the country where I'm at. I've got 4 acorns/hopeful's in some good soil for about 11 days now.
There was a tree along the river with a rope tied to an overhanging branch. Young folks must've had been enjoying swing into the river for a long time, as there used to be a boy scout campground there. The park cut it down, for insurance liability reasons. It think it was an oak. I want to plant a new one for future generations to enjoy.
Where I live, there are tonnes of oak trees ∴ tonnes of acorns, and tonnes of squirrels. The squirrels go crazy , and bury acorns all over the place in the fall, leading to more than dozens of little sproutlings in people's manicured lawns every spring (doing the germination for us!). I saved a couple last year (after they had been mowed over multiple times), thought they had all died when they lost their handful of leaves earlier than expected/generally seemed dried out, but I held on to one anyway - lo and behold, this year it's already sprouting new leaves! Now I'm trying to decide if I should nip its new growth or if I should just leave it alone (ehh... I'll leave it alone, and focus on shaping it and doing more to encourage growth for shaping when it's older c: ), but am looking forward to picking some new plants that squirrels surely germinated for us this last year
Houseplants taken out of their natural environments would lead one to believe that plants are finnicky and not particularly robust (I keep killing common junipers that I'm trying to treat as bonzai :/ ), but after hundreds of thousands to millions of years of evolution, surprise surprise, they're pretty robust in the appropriate environment/growing conditions (really shouldn't be a surprise, but it still amazes me)! Makes me think of germinating lima beans in elementary school - it was amazing, but I feel I forgot as an adult how cool it is - thanks for re-inspiring interest for people with a video like this!
Great results and info. I'm going to try this.
If anything your video is quite inspirational as I’ve just got into having green fingers and I’m trying to do it as cheap as possible which if anything is a really good thing as it’s going to mean I will be harvesting tree seeds that are the most native they can be so can’t really do it wrong in that respect got plenty learning to do though so thank you for sharing your knowledge!!
Cheers.
Great video! Love the info about collecting acorns
Amazing thank you for the knowledge! I am trying to teach my children how to grow seeds and we found a bunch of acorns!
Thanks. I love this tree and one to grow it.
And a hundred years from now you can enjoy it.
A wise man plants a tree that he will never sit in the shade of
@@bobsmith-ud9xi heard that one before I think. ive planted many a tree. Just not one I'll never enjoy. Point taken tho.🤔
Well, it's a lie. I have two 26 year-old oaks (my age, actually) and they are about 10 m high. They aren't huge, but I sit in their shade often.
the plant is already converting sunlight and nutrients into food. there is no wait.
Love me some oak and hickory trees. Gonna have to get some pots and soil and try this with them now! Haha
This is great, thanks for sharing! Amazing what we can all do to make the world a better place and rewild areas. Thanks!
The “Foresters” clear cut 273 acres of old, old oak trees that two people together could hardly reach around. It was all the property that surrounded a beautiful 120 acre lake on which we owned a small lot. They were in there for months, haulin’ those trees out. It was a total wasteland, except for one oak tree they left standing. Three days later they came and cut the oak down and just let it lie there. My sons and I got the idea to pick up as many acorns as we could, back at our house, as they were falling at the time. We hauled grocery bags full of acorns up there and scattered them everywhere. The pines started coming up but slowly the oaks started emerging. Years later we were tickled to see oak trees popping up everywhere! Although, they would never replace the Oaks that were taken, (never in three lifetimes)it was a small, sly little sliver of accomplishment. Well, just as they were starting to get 15-20’ tall, they came and thinned the pine stand, taking about half of “our” oaks. Bummer. The ones they missed have gotten so big over the years, and we were happy about that. The stories of all the time we spent walking under and playing around those giant oaks of old, are often told as we walk under our “young” oaks that we planted. They are 60’-70’ tall now and we were able to purchase 30 acres of the land. It will never, ever come close to how beautiful it once was, but it brings us joy knowing we did what we could, and we continue to do more.
Great story, thanks for sharing
New sub great channel! I planted a dozen five foot tall bare root bur oaks last year and 25 more this year (we are restoring the Oak Savanna on our property). We have quite a few bur oaks in the area, but I couldn't find a single acorn for the last couple of years. The red oaks are putting out a few, but none to be seen on the whites. Going to try from cuttings again this year.
It’s been almost 3 years since you put this video out and it’s still great!
In fact, after purchasing some acorns from them, a tree farmer had suggested this video to me to get me started quickly.
So here’s the thing… I’m currently in New York City: plant zone 7b, and I want to nurse all of my acorns in-house until say, late June to early July; where then I will move them outside in to the ground in Cheraw, South Carolina: plant zone 8a.
I put the white oak acorn seeds in a clear 4 mill plymor bag, snuggled in a damp paper towel and sitting at the bottom drawer of my fridge.
If I want them to be their strongest and healthiest before I sow them late June to early July,
When would it be okay to take them out of the fridge and sow them in a long funnel pot to promote long tap-root growth?
How soon should I sow them before I pack them up for my trip to South Carolina and transfer them to the dirt?
How should I package them for a safe, one day trip?
When I sow the acorns, can I use prepuchased whole peat moss rather than mulch?
I really appreciate you dearly for all of your help.
Thank you!
I found some on the ground in my city.. will grab them and try this tutorial
Can’t wait to grow mine!
This video taught us how to lay an acorn in dirt, but not how wet or damp the soil should be when planting them. Or if the soil should be watered or moistened during the waiting/sprouting period. My soil started to become dry just as it was beginning to sprout, so I watered it (apparently too much) and the sprout ended up dying of root-rot from being too wet. I didn’t realize until too late, that the information I’d learned here didn’t cover the *most* important part. The medium it grows in.
That's covered in the description :)
@@greenthinking7247 Omg, thank you so much! I didn’t see it because the info was collapsed in the mobile app, so it only showed the top two paragraphs, the basic description of the video. Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me. ☺️☺️☺️
Cool friend , keep doing this !!! I also try to have oak from acorn in Kazakhstan
Good luck!
Very nice
I have just began pulling the saplings out of the garden. They were growing along the vegetables, I didn't want to just throw them in the compost. These plants seem to grow deep roots and can grow in between cracks in between rocks, where I found one of them.
Along with these I have found maple saplings scattered which seem to grow in similar conditions but have shallow roots, or were easily pulled out. I put all of them in separate pots.
Awesome, young trees always start growing a deep taproot so they stay secure so that's not surprising. You will have a small forest in no time.
Thank you for your time
We did this, grew in town three years, planted on dads farm and deer got them over winter.
If it is not eaten, it seems it gets scrapped lol
This was just excellent! Thank very much…
GREAT video. Very beneficial. Thank you much!
heh..I mow like 50 of these things down every year. The half dozen oaks on the property have no problem propagating without any help from me :P
A true optimist is someone who plants an acorn. Because they will never live to see the mighty oak tree.
Well if they are young they might
Great video! What kind of soil mixture did you use? And how often do you water 💧 them?
This ^
I've learned that planting in a clear spot, away from any other tree, out of the drip line of other plants, will give it more sun, and wind that will make the trunk stronger by it's nateral resistance. The allround sun will allow a more even, rounded limb grouth. You will be happy with it's results.
I have a hundred oak I’ve or squirrels have planted. Most r big enough to b free of predators as for some reason they’ll chew them off especially during winter but I still put a 4’cage around each one to save my work. A learning experience. I have more than in the whole neighborhood. Would love to see the hood in a hundred years from now. I’ll rip knowing I did my deed.
Cool thanks for the information on your video, hope to grow my own oak tree so when I dead in a few years my freinds can pop my ashes under my tree!!
As the saying goes " The beginning of understanding wisdom Is a man who plants a tree knowing he won't be able to enjoy its shade"
Hi i started my acorns last nov started them in the fridge in moist vermiculite worked fine i grew them inside under a led plant light until april then put them in a pot and put outside now there about a foot tall.
I have 6 white oak acorns hope they grow thanks for the advice😁👍👍
Good Luck!
What happened, did they sprout?
I’ve started many oaks, just find acorns that are sprouting and toss them in your mulch. It’s that easy.
Rip the one acorn that secretly rolled off the table😭
They're super cute
We have a 100 year old oak dropping thousands of acorns , its OVER 40 feet tall !!!!
Once sprouted can I leave these in my greenhouse during the winter and not worry about them freezing and dieing
should be able to
I have propagated a number of acorns with a variety of success and I can boast that they are presently flourishing in the UK countrywide. My occasional downfall has been getting to the acorns before the squirrels do and netting them once growth develops..
I just planted my first 9!
Thank you for helping me grow my acorn eggcorn u deserve a sub
Thanks for sharing! I been tempting to plant beech trees and some other trees around my area I been wanting to plant especially the bigger and older beeches we have sides lots of beech trees around here starting to die out from fungus/ getting cut over in general and sometimes from the strong gusty winds. But that's something I didn't know about of the water test, so the ones that flout they must be empty. I noticed that with some of our maple trees trees some puds were full when I cracked them open just to see the seed, others seed puds from the same maple were halo.
2 questions: After transplanting my oak tree outside last April after planting it in October 2021, keeping it inside all of last winter, my oak tree lost its main stem in September and all that was left of it was a 1 inch tall stub. It grew 2 branches to the side, but as of November 9, 2022, my oak tree still isn’t changing color and it didn’t grow back the main stem.
Will my oak tree grow back its main stem next summer?
When will my oak tree change color?
Greetings,
I’ve got 5 white oak seedlings in a huge pot. I live in central Illinois. I would like to separate and repot them. Once I get that done, do I winter them over inside? Our winters can be harsh.
Thanks, Mike
Thanks for putting this up Green Thinking. Nicely explained and illustrated thanks.
I have to recommend a book to you called Wilding by Isabella Tree. The introduction is really depressing so leave that till you finish the book.
Chapter 1 is about Oaks and ancient Oaks and the symbiotic relationship between the jay and this species of tree that is astounding, and true.
The rest of the book is quite an extraordinary journey of selling off their dairy herd and cereals equipment in 2001 just before the foot & mouth virus decimated so many old farms and their livestock with hooves.
By taking out the drainage in the fields not only did they restore the equilibrium they also stopped the flooding of the villages below their 5,000 acres and are finally turning a profit because they don't feed or care for their free-ranging Dartmoor ponies, longhorn cattle, pigs and deer, they care for themselves and are left to wander the fields and woodland that they manage at the Knepp estate.
I'm jealous. I wish I had land to grow. For every tree down another needs to rebirth in this modern age.
So I started some this Fall. I let them get about the size of yours and put them in the garage. I read the trees that start germinating in the Fall have to go through a cold stratification after germinating or they won’t grow well.
im in the u.k and while american pin oaks do grow here ,our native species are sessile ,pendunculate and holm oaks .I grew some pendunculate oaks back in 2019 ,sadly the heatwave wiped them out ,j ust gathered some more for a retry next year
“All acorns are different” ❤
I’m going to try this
nows the time!
Great video! I have some questions. What season did you plant this in? What potting soil/mix did you use? Do I need to bring these in in the winter as seedlings or can they stay outside in the winter?
Enjoyed video thank you
I loved this. Thank you.
I have a Thousand Acorns to plant in November or December, when the ground gets wet. They are going right into the ground. If I get Twenty Trees out of that, I will be happy. That might be the best way to play the numbers game, for Maximum Reforestation.
Totally agree, if you have an open area and the supply of acorns, I recommend doing a bulk planting then just fencing it off from wildlife.