Planting 75 sawtooth seedlings today and tomorrow

Should see acorns in 7 years. Water frequently first year

Thanks for the advice

We bought a place in North Mississippi five years ago that has some mature sawtooth oaks – all 12-13 years old. First three years we owned the place the trees produced well and the deer absolutely hammered them. We can see one row of sawtooths from our house and when the acorns started falling there were often two or three deer walking around waiting for the next treat to hit the ground.

Year four was an unbelievable bumper crop – way more than the any of the previous three years. Just a gut feel but it seemed like we had at least twice the production than any of the previous three years. Year five (this past summer/fall) we had almost zero sawtooth acorn production. I’ve read the boom and bust cycle is not uncommon. Hoping for a better year in '23. We also have a good number of mature native also which produced very well this year – probably the best in the 5 years we’ve been here. Wish I knew why this occurred. Did not seem to be weather related as the overall weather was not bad and had good spring and early summer rains.

I know this doesn’t really answer your question on new trees but we are very happy to have the mature sawtooths and our deer like them even more!

The trees just get on different cycles….like women

They will be the first type of acorn tree to drop every year. Good timing for early bow seasons.

Last weekend, the Airline hwy Baton Rouge’s Home Depot parking lot curbs were covered with sawtooth acorns, guessing no wildlife around there to consume them. Didn’t notice if any were still hanging in the trees.

Older Buddy of mine got high and planted 30 of them off his front porch cause he thought it would be great to watch the deer feed under them.

Now 25 years later the deer don’t feed under them but they sure do block the beautiful view of his pasture that sits below the hill

True story. When we finally asked him why the hell would he plant trees blocking the view he confessed

I regret planting all the ones we did.

I don’t get the excitement about that tree. The acorns drop before bow season starts.

Lotta negativity in this thread so far.

I hope they work out because I want to provide year round food for my deer. Yeesh