Would anyone be interested in purchasing several varieties of oak seeds ( acorns)?

[Big Country Bonsai]

Not sure if there's any interest, but I have access to several oak trees with loads of acorns. There is Live oak, buckley oak (its a beautiful delicate red oak), Mohr oak (similar to grey oak), post oak, blackjack oak, and an interesting hybrid of buckley and blackjack oak ( hastings oak) and Bur oak. I don;t have a price in mind just gauging interest at this point.

 

[Big Country Bonsai]

1,2: Buckley
3,4,5,6: hybrid Hastings oak (Natural hybrid)
7,8: Mohr oak
9,10 blackjack oak

 

[rockm]

Not sure if there's any interest, but I have access to several oak trees with loads of acorns. There is Live oak, buckley oak (its a beautiful delicate red oak), Mohr oak (similar to grey oak), post oak, blackjack oak, and an interesting hybrid of buckley and blackjack oak ( hastings oak) and Bur oak. I don;t have a price in mind just gauging interest at this point.

Acorns aren't worth the trouble. Takes an extremely long time to develop anything of internest--like in a human's lifetime. However, the oak TREES you're looking at have potential. A lot of potential. If you can learn how to get them out alive, they'd sell...

This is a Texas live oak bonsai. Trunk (didn't have limbs at the time) dug from a ranch near Salado in 1993 or so. I've developed it since it was dug up. Some of the oaks you've pictured have the same potential...

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Oaks take a very long time from seed. Though every one you listed, definitely would have potential if you could find wild trees worth digging up. Trunks greater than 3 inches in diameter.

Sadly, none of those would be cold hardy in my area except bur oak. But we have our own local geographic race of bur oak that is already adapted to the cold.

I'm in my 4th year with seedling bur oak, and trunks are still no larger in diameter than a pencil. It will be a decade or two before I have trunks worth working with.

 

[Big Country Bonsai]

Yes, fortunately there are some nice ones worth collecting on this plot! I figured that this would be the case but thought I might offer them in case anyone was interested in them for landscape as well.

 

[BobbyLane]

some great potential im those oaks. i wouldnt be bothering about acorns when you have access to material like this. leave the acorns for the squirrels

 

[Big Country Bonsai]

# 3 is prob my favorite but it has inverse taper as seen in image 4

 

[rockm]

Yes, fortunately there are some nice ones worth collecting on this plot! I figured that this would be the case but thought I might offer them in case anyone was interested in them for landscape as well.

Thing is, though, oaks are VERY picky about having their roots messed with. It's not a simple chop and remove job with oaks as it is with a lot of other deciduous species. It can take some experience and some time to get an older one like the trees you've pictured out alive...Also, digging oaks in Texas is not easy as the coleche topsoil (if you have it in your area and you probably do) can complicate things.

Do you have cedar elm around? If so, they are very easy to dig, even the big ones.

 

[Big Country Bonsai]

Thing is, though, oaks are VERY picky about having their roots messed with. It's not a simple chop and remove job with oaks as it is with a lot of other deciduous species. It can take some experience and some time to get an older one like the trees you've pictured out alive...Also, digging oaks in Texas is not easy as the coleche topsoil (if you have it in your area and you probably do) can complicate things.

Do you have cedar elm around? If so, they are very easy to dig, even the big ones.

There are a few elm around but not as many as there are in the DFW area. I have 4 cedar elms that I collected this spring but i'm hoping to get back out to where some nice ones were this coming spring in order to get a couple more. I have found the quercus marilandica (blackjack oak) to have quite a few feeder roots and be easier to collect so maybe the hybrid of if will have the same trait.

 

[PABonsai]

I'd be interested in some of the acorns. I have decades left in me.

 

[Big Country Bonsai]

I'd be interested in some of the acorns. I have decades left in me.

Any specific one?

 

[rockm]

I'd be interested in some of the acorns. I have decades left in me.

Unless you have frost free or substantial protection for those oak seedlings, they're not long for a Penn. winter...

 

[rockm]

There are a few elm around but not as many as there are in the DFW area. I have 4 cedar elms that I collected this spring but i'm hoping to get back out to where some nice ones were this coming spring in order to get a couple more. I have found the quercus marilandica (blackjack oak) to have quite a few feeder roots and be easier to collect so maybe the hybrid of if will have the same trait.

Good luck sawing through the tap root on that black jack. That wood is DAMN hard and tough. Bring three saws

 

[PABonsai]

Unless you have frost free or substantial protection for those oak seedlings, they're not long for a Penn. winter...

Well, I didn't see that his profile says Texas but I could provide protection for a few years. I've got an unheated shed or I could place in the mud room for a few winters till they acclimate.

 

[Big Country Bonsai]

Good luck sawing through the tap root on that black jack. That wood is DAMN hard and tough. Bring three saws

I need to invest in an electric reciprocating saw them hahaha

 

[rockm]

Well, I didn't see that his profile says Texas but I could provide protection for a few years. I've got an unheated shed or I could place in the mud room for a few winters till they acclimate.

They probably won't acclimate all that much. They will be marginally hardy in your area and require substantial winter protection as long as you have them. My live oak overwintered in mulch in my backyard for its first few years here in Va. It limped through and had pretty weak growth (the growth that didn't burned off once it began growing in mid-February). I have overwintered it in a cold greenhouse at a bonsai nursery for the last 15 years or so. It grows very strongly now with mostly frost free winters.

I once tried a smaller Texas live oak without the cold greenhouse. It lost all its branching every winter from the deep freeze in Jan. and Feb. I had to start from a bare trunk every spring. I finally gave up on it.

 

[PABonsai]

They probably won't acclimate all that much. They will be marginally hardy in your area and require substantial winter protection as long as you have them. My live oak overwintered in mulch in my backyard for its first few years here in Va. It limped through and had pretty weak growth (the growth that didn't burned off once it began growing in mid-February). I have overwintered it in a cold greenhouse at a bonsai nursery for the last 15 years or so. It grows very strongly now with mostly frost free winters.

I once tried a smaller Texas live oak without the cold greenhouse. It lost all its branching every winter from the deep freeze in Jan. and Feb. I had to start from a bare trunk every spring. I finally gave up on it.

Hmmm, that's interesting. It's hard to argue with experience, especially since I've already collected a bagful of local acorns. Thanks @rockm. I'm going to heed that advice.

 

[Big Country Bonsai]

They probably won't acclimate all that much. They will be marginally hardy in your area and require substantial winter protection as long as you have them. My live oak overwintered in mulch in my backyard for its first few years here in Va. It limped through and had pretty weak growth (the growth that didn't burned off once it began growing in mid-February). I have overwintered it in a cold greenhouse at a bonsai nursery for the last 15 years or so. It grows very strongly now with mostly frost free winters.

I once tried a smaller Texas live oak without the cold greenhouse. It lost all its branching every winter from the deep freeze in Jan. and Feb. I had to start from a bare trunk every spring. I finally gave up on it.

Is your live oak the escarpment species? Are they more or less hardy than the southern live oak in your experience?

 

[Woocash]

Wanna send any to the uk? I love those Buckleys and the Hastings hybrid. Not sure how they’d fare over here, but it’d be fun to give them a go.

 

[Crawforde]

I’d actually be interested in trying some Mohr oak.