How to grow a White Oak tree from acorn/seed
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- ***DISCLAIMER***
This is not a Burr oak as stated, it is a White oak. More specifically Quercus alba which is a member of the white oak group as well as shares the same name White Oak. Can be confusing but wanted to clarify.
This is a very basic tutorial and how to on growing any kind of white oak trees, as all do not need stratification.
Yes I say GUYS a lot, this is one of my first UA-cam videos and I was like 17 so give me some slack. Never expected it to receive so much traffic
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#1 Soil- use really any soil, potting, garden, native soil, etc. I use a mix in my pots of my native TN clay soil and potting soil.
#2 Watering- You want to keep the soil moist but not saturated during acorn germination and sapling development. Saturation will hinder results and same as letting the soil dry out completely. Small pots dry fast and usually water runs down the sides and doesn't absorb well. Sometime I even fully submerge my small pots for a minute to make sure they are completely saturated then I don't have to water for a few days. Clay once dried takes time to soften and I find my full submersion technique to work well in making sure the core stays moist .
#3 Transplant- Transplant to larger pot once stem of sapling has turned brown and is not leafy green. Doesn't just have to be at this point but once the stem has actually developed, that's a good sign the root base is doing well and would be able to handle a transplant.
#4 ENJOY the process and don't be discouraged. Tree growing is all about patience. Germination can take weeks at times and sapling growth is very slow. Enjoy the ride and be a patient steward of a potential giant!
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 👏
🙏🙏
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
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! 🏴
Something just fascinates me about planting a tree, something that will live for many years after you have left this earth 🌎🌳
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.
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
The humble squirrel plants more trees than any creature on earth.
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
I need to go gather a bunch of acorns now, thanks for the video
nows the time!!!
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
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
Got to plant those trees!
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 💌
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
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.
"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'm expecting great things from this channel....
Appreciated!
Yeah I have been looking for a good channel about plants
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'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. :)
Panted 2 trees using this method, 20 some years ago, now I have nice trees. Nice video.
Amazing
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 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
Great results and info. I'm going to try this.
Great video! Love the info about collecting acorns
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!
Great job in growing the acorns.
This is great, thanks for sharing! Amazing what we can all do to make the world a better place and rewild areas. Thanks!
Thanks for the video. I'm going to plant some oaks now where I live in England. I didn't know it was this easy. I hope they will live a long life, like over a century.
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. 🙏🏻
I just started to grow my own tooo! what A NICE HOBBY :) #happygrowing #makeyourown #everyday
Can’t wait to grow mine!
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!
GREAT video. Very beneficial. Thank you much!
Amazing thank you for the knowledge! I am trying to teach my children how to grow seeds and we found a bunch of acorns!
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?
I loved this. Thank you.
That is a frighteningly positive stat!!
Thank you for your time
This was just excellent! Thank very much…
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
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.
❤ 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.
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.
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! 😆
Great to see a young man interested in growing trees. Thumbs up and a sub.
My favorite tree.
Rip the one acorn that secretly rolled off the table😭
Thanks. I love this tree and one to grow it.
They're super cute
Great job!
Thank you for helping me grow my acorn eggcorn u deserve a sub
Great video
I was just going to challenge your assessment as a Burr Oak and then saw your Disclaimer. Well done.
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.
Pretty cool i love it.
I have a huge (50ft+) coast live oak that I’m trying this with! I hope it grows into a beautiful oak!
Love me some oak and hickory trees. Gonna have to get some pots and soil and try this with them now! Haha
great video. thanks !
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!
Thank you sir this was a very helpful video
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.
Awesome, tomorrow I will go get some acorns and grow them. #TEAM TREES
Enjoyed video thank you
Thank you for your VID.
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 just planted my first 9!
I have 6 white oak acorns hope they grow thanks for the advice😁👍👍
Good Luck!
What happened, did they sprout?
I’m going to try this
nows the time!
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
I’ve planted 4 Moringa trees from seed that are 12 feet tall. Also have many cool bonsai from seed!
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
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.
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.
Thanks for the video
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!
Great video! What kind of soil mixture did you use? And how often do you water 💧 them?
This ^
Thank you!
I love oak trees 🌰🌰🌰
Cool friend , keep doing this !!! I also try to have oak from acorn in Kazakhstan
Good luck!
Very nice
Good job bro will do!
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
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
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.
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"
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.
great video, i just subbed
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.
Looks great man!, I have a huge white oak that has dropped so many acorns and I have collected about 20 that have already germinated, so I'm going to attempt to get them growing in pots in my ""cattle panel greenhouse"" ... I'm in NC so we have many of the same trees, I am going to sub, to your channel... I'm wondering about dogwood trees and Holly trees, hopefully I can find some more great info from your channel! Thanks man!
Thank you.
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
We have a 100 year old oak dropping thousands of acorns , its OVER 40 feet tall !!!!
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!
"Every man should plant a tree, have a son, and write a book."
@Levi Langershank Even then, not all ladies want children, and that's ok.
Thanks for the video I live in North Texas and they are a bunch of different Oaks and I would like to grow some. And this might seem like we'll be the easiest
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?
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
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.
“All acorns are different” ❤
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
Cool
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