Fruits and Nuts: Chinquapin, 1 by Lucky_P

Lucky_P wrote:
I've got a dozen or so F-2 seedlings of some of the Dunstan selections, and mine have an upright growth habit - but they were grown in a nursery bed at very close spacing for 3-4 years before I got around to transplanting them at 6-8 ft tall.
Seednuts they were grown from were large - like Chinese.
I didn't get arount to caging, or at least driving a T-post next to them, last year and the dam*ed rutting bucks girdled 'em by rubbing on 'em, so they've had to 'start over' from about 1' above ground level. Grrr.

You oughta look into planting some bur oaks, too - I've got several out of AL, TX, & OK with acorns that'll run 6-7/lb, with the caps removed; they usually start bearing at around 10 years of age, and mine bear almost every year - maybe not so heavily, early on, as sawtooth oak, but the deer love 'em(don't know if a turkey could swallow one of those monster acorns, but those from northern seedsource are quite a bit smaller), and they are a native species(though only native to AL in a small pocket in Montgomery Co.)