Mexican Blue Oak (Quercus oblongifolia)

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rhydon Chandler, AZ Sep 09, 2014

Mexican Blue Oak
Quercus oblongifolia

Mexican Blue Oak Acorn

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Welshquercus Burry Port, United Kingdom Oct 17, 2014

Hi Rhydon,
Is this quercus Oblongifolia something you have found / can get acorns for, or a picture you have found on the web? Interested in trading anything oaks-related?
Kind regards,
Chris

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rhydon Chandler, AZ Apr 12, 2015

Hello Chris,

My apologies, I have just now seen your thread from October of 2014. The photos are of Q. oblongifolia which I purchased from a nursery in Tucson, AZ. One of the trees does produce acorns, and I will be glad to send some to you, if it is legal for me to mail them to you in the UK. I am not sure if you have anything for trade, as I also have English oaks growing here, too - they don't seem to mind our extreme temperatures here.

Take care,

- Curt

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vossner East Texas, United States(Zone 8a) Apr 12, 2015

curious, what kind of English oaks? Do you have cool evenings? I'm trying to imagine what your weather is as compared to my z9a Houston and Sunset zone 28.

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rhydon Chandler, AZ Apr 17, 2015

Q. robur and Q. petraea. In the summer here, "cool" is not in our vocabulary, the low temperatures could be in the 90s during the hottest part of the summer. Our average summer highs are 105°-110° and we have some days where the highs reach 115°. I planted a 1-gal Q. robur from Forestfarm a couple of years ago that gets afternoon shade, and is doing well, but I also have one planted as an acorn from Berlin (Germany) that is growing in full sun and made it through its first growing season with no problem. I have some bur-English hybrids that grow just fine in full sun. I have another Q. robur and a Q. petraea planted from Berlin-area acorns that are doing well with afternoon shade.

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vossner East Texas, United States(Zone 8a) Apr 17, 2015

I tried growing a q robur Concordia from forest farm and it died. Don't really know what I did wrong.

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rhydon Chandler, AZ Apr 18, 2015

You might want to try Oikos Tree Crops. Everything I have purchased from them has done well. Or, you might want to try planting a bare-root tree next winter from one of those nurseries in the South that can ship any time during the winter. Ty Ty in Georgia packages their bare-root plants extremely well; some of the other nurseries are really pathetic in their packaging of bare-root plants. Bare-root, in my opinion, gets the trees off to their best start after transplanting.

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vossner East Texas, United States(Zone 8a) Apr 18, 2015

I'll ck out your recommendations

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