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which ones do deer like?
The green ones, or the dry ones?

what are the insects that bore little holes in them?

does that kill the acorn so they won't grow?

am I going nuts asking about acorns?

Weevil grubs. As long as there is any “meat” inside the acorn the deer will eat them green or dry. White oaks are preferred over Red Oak acorns. Deer eventually eat them all. At least this is my experience.

Not sure if the weevils will stop the acorn from germinating. Probably would not help with germination.

These are dropping now, and they are getting hammered.

White oak

Some begin to brown and drop, same tree.




Same tree a few days, some browning up

I’ve sliced few bellies open and found brown acorns mostly.

The green white oak acorns on the tree turn brown very quickly after hitting the ground. It seems just about everything in the woods goes after them pretty quick.

I always loved sitting up in a white oak dropping acorns with a bow in October

I think a frost helps cure the red oak acorns and deer start really going after them.

Very heavy acorn year here in western Oregon. More on the ground than I can ever remember seeing.

what does deer stomach acid do to green acorns?
that might be a interesting bit o lore to develop next tim you do a bit o belly slitting...
catch the juice and drop in some green acorns...



kinda like acorn tea? white is supposed to be better?



does sun make them brown on the ground faster than shade?

Red oaks put out every other year, I believe

It matures-turns brown

Circle of life

Fruit ripens, turns colors

The stems ceases to supply life and nutrients to the seed,fruit,nut etc. The cap/cup dries and the nut falls out

Or a gust of wind, first frost, squirrel, blue jay, crow, etc mechanically hastens that process by severing the cup stem

yeah, but I am betting stomach acid will turn your green acorns brown. and not yer "brown eyes blue..."

Can you up the acorn production by fertilizing the trees with Ammonium nitrate?

If you have a late frost that kills other acorns, the red oaks will still produce that fall. But they wont the next fall.

Actually they will produce every year, unless there is a killing frost in the spring.

I knew Red Oak when I was in college. Thats not true about how often she would put out.

Nitrogen tends to promote foliage as opposed to fruit.

You can spike the drip line, but in a dense stand, there a lot of competition. Jobe used to make some large spikes.

Would only recommend that if you had a solitary tree in an open area

Lots of live oaks down here. They produce lots of acorns

^^^Beautiful trees and tasty acorns being in the white oak family. Those big assed branches that grow straight out from the trunk are impressive!

Deer really like acorns out of the Blackjack oaks in east Texas

Decent bbq wood also, not as good as mesquite