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Sawtooth Oaks
Posted on 9/18/23 at 6:09 pm
Posted on 9/18/23 at 6:09 pm
Sorry for the long post.
2018 - buy 15 sawtooth. Plant 8 of them along the road in front of my shop. They all get plenty of sun. In the summer time I would place 5 gallon buckets with a small hole drilled and water each of them 2x’s a week with miracle grow.
2019- 1 of the trees died and I replanted that fall.
2020- the tree I planted in 2019’s place died. Hurricane Laura blew another one over so I just replanted the one that blew over, not the one that has died 2x’s in the same spot. So that’s 3 trees at the road. Laura got 1 and the other 2 died planted in the same spot.
When I replanted in the fall after Laura I bought a few extra sawtooths and planted those.
One of those I planted close to my pond. 20 ft to the water on 3 sides.
The trunk is less than half the size of the ones I planted in 2018 but made acorns as big as nickel this year. It does not get anywhere close to the sun the others get and I do not water it.
Is it genetics in the tree itself ?
2018 - buy 15 sawtooth. Plant 8 of them along the road in front of my shop. They all get plenty of sun. In the summer time I would place 5 gallon buckets with a small hole drilled and water each of them 2x’s a week with miracle grow.
2019- 1 of the trees died and I replanted that fall.
2020- the tree I planted in 2019’s place died. Hurricane Laura blew another one over so I just replanted the one that blew over, not the one that has died 2x’s in the same spot. So that’s 3 trees at the road. Laura got 1 and the other 2 died planted in the same spot.
When I replanted in the fall after Laura I bought a few extra sawtooths and planted those.
One of those I planted close to my pond. 20 ft to the water on 3 sides.
The trunk is less than half the size of the ones I planted in 2018 but made acorns as big as nickel this year. It does not get anywhere close to the sun the others get and I do not water it.
Is it genetics in the tree itself ?
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Posted on 9/18/23 at 7:34 pm to TurkeyThug
I asked a nurseryman why some oaks in the field had grown faster than others.
He shrugged and sai he didn’t know.
He shrugged and sai he didn’t know.
Posted on 9/18/23 at 8:49 pm to TurkeyThug
I have messed with sawtooth oaks for a while and have 250 ordered for this fall to pot. I have found it best to pot them for 3-4 years before putting them in the ground. They will need to be pruned a lot early on. After 3-4 years, pick out the best trees and plant them.
Posted on 9/18/23 at 9:17 pm to Jaspermac
quote:this goes for most oaks I’ve found. I usually keep sprouted acorns from my willow oaks in pots for at least two years before transplanting. My success rate doing that is pretty near 100%
I have found it best to pot them for 3-4 years before putting them in the ground.
Posted on 9/19/23 at 1:32 pm to TurkeyThug
I started all mine from acorns I collected in my yard. I over planted them in a long row I had in a sunny spot in the yard. I would throw acorns in that row every year. As they grew, I would transplant to different locations in the yard, around my pond and along the road and along my property line. Most grew but some didn't and I would replace them with saplings from the original planting. I have a total of 60 or so with 25 producing acorns and some a year or more away. Mine started producing about 6 years after planting and every deer in the area shows up to eat them.
Posted on 9/19/23 at 1:36 pm to TurkeyThug
Regarding the location where 2 died, 2 scenarios I've experienced come to mind. #1- Something was spilled there at some point and the dirt is bad. #2- Is there a natural gas line under/near that spot? If gas is seeping out it will kill any tree in that spot.
Posted on 9/19/23 at 3:18 pm to TurkeyThug
I'm going with planting depth, water retention, etc as to why such a big variation
Posted on 9/19/23 at 7:01 pm to TurkeyThug
I have roughly 30 sawtooth oaks planted on my place about 30 years ago.
Some produce tons of acorns, some a normal amount, some none at all.
Some have huge trunks and others look like they are 10-15 years old.
Soil is all I can think of.
Some produce tons of acorns, some a normal amount, some none at all.
Some have huge trunks and others look like they are 10-15 years old.
Soil is all I can think of.
Posted on 9/19/23 at 8:01 pm to eatpie
No gas line.
Used to be woods.
Still don’t understand why a tree way smaller is making acorns and the others are not.
Used to be woods.
Still don’t understand why a tree way smaller is making acorns and the others are not.
Posted on 9/19/23 at 9:14 pm to TurkeyThug
I gave my parents one for their yard that was 5 years old. It almost doubled in size in another 5 yrs and had a bumper crop of acorns this year. It just up and died this year and we cannot figure out why. Very bizarre.
Posted on 9/19/23 at 10:17 pm to clickboom
A male dog did a leg hike on it?
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