JoB's Acorn to Oak Tree Thread

[JoB]

My first contest entry

Acorns already planted ( mid and late Oktober )

Quer cus  rubra - Northern red oak - fresh acorns from tree at work (blue pot - perlite/coco + vermiculite)
Quercus robur - English/German oak - fresh acorns from trees in our village (orange pot - perlite/coco + vermiculite)
Quercus petraea (sessile oak) - acorns bought from internet (large tray - perlite/coco)
Quercus faginea (Portuguese oak) - acorns bought from internet (large tray - perlite/coco)t
Quercus pyrenaica (Pyrenean oak)- acorns bought from internet (large tray - perlite/coco)

Quercus suber/Cork Oak- acorns bought from internet - I will plant in spring.

 

[czaczaja]

Is there a particular reason why you didn't mix in verm for the last 3?

 

[JoB]

the only reason was that I had run out

 

[JoB]

Found some more American red acorns so planted them today, I still have some corkbark oak, but I will start them off in February inside

 

[czaczaja]

Found some more American red acorns so planted them today, I still have some corkbark oak, but I will start them off in February inside View attachment 522303

Are those cherries?

 

[JoB]

Are those cherries?

The other seeds in the tray are lime and a few sweetgum I had lying around

 

[JoB]

Planted 12 of the Cork bark ( quercus suber) . I still have 8 but I am going to wait and see if these start sprouting or not before planting the rest as I have restricted lighting for my indoor plants and don't want to have too many needing light before the spring. If nothing is showing by mid Feb I will plant the rest

 

[JoB]

So the cork bark acorns I tried to start in the house decided to just go mouldy, despite using hydrogen peroxide as preventative measure, I bought the acorns online and not sure that it was a good source anyway, so bought some more ( different source) planted to go in my garden shed ( with window) and I will try my luck outside, the rest of the others I also threw into a pot and in my shed. I am getting some more this week hopefully, so they will also get planted and put outside

 

[JoB]

Spring is springing so started planting out. I decided as I seem to have a higher success rate than I expected that I would try some experiments ...cutting tap roots, adding a washer, placing a tile under etc ...started with a couple of the German/English Oaks and some of the US red ...

 

[JoB]

So, one tray with multiple different oaks clearly got too wet ( we have been getting alot of rain lately) and most of them had sprouted, but then turned to mush, ...so currently running with US red oak, German/English Oak and Cork oaks ,let's see who survives the next stage

 

[JoB]

US red oaks and German/English Oaks growing, stalling a bit this week due to temperature drop...Cork oaks all had healthy roots when I transplanted, but none popping their "heads out" yet...also have a few more US red oaks which are still in a tray, they are pushing up, but not seeing any green yet and some in root pouches - same status. I have done a random mix of normal pots, pond baskets and root pouches to see what seems best.

 

[JoB]

I had forgotten that I had ordered some pin oaks in October....they arrived yesterday , I have planted them but not expecting anything ...the english/German oaks are doing OK, same with the US red, the corkbark oaks have roots but are being very slow to poke their heads up. I wired a couple of the larger red oaks, will see how they react the next couple of days, if they remain fit then I will wire some more so they are not all straight sticks.