sandradee
Joined: 27 Dec 2004
Posts: 3
Location: Joshua,TEXAS
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| Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:38 am Post subject: acorns sprouting |
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| Help, As an experiment I recently put about 20 Chinquapin(sp) Oak acorns in a small container and put them in an incubater with some eggs the family was trying to hatch. Guess what, they're sprouting!!!! Now what do I do??? :shock: |
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margauritaville
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
Posts: 51
Location: Huntsville, TX
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| Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 11:20 am Post subject: seedling propagation |
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You can do 2 things and I would recomend the 2nd.
1. Plant the acorns now (with the root pointing down), mark them with a flag, stick, or small child and mulch over them. Odds are that at least one will form a tree (if we don't get another really bad freeze.)
2. Find or make a good, fairly light weight potting medium (some combination that can include omong other things: mulch (NOT PINE NUGGETS), sphagnum moss and perilite). I am sure one of the other boards will have the dirt :roll: on this subject.
Place them in a fairly deep pot pot and by all means, don't incubate them anymore. Most plants, oaks included, need a certain number of hours below certain temperatures to properly grow, especially after germinantion. If you want to leave the seedling in pots for 4-5 years, get a few sizes ranging from 1 to say 10 gallon and repot as needed. Or if you are like me and kinda crual with a sink or swim mentality, just get a 1 gal container and plant the seedling this fall. Just be sure to re-adjust the soil line at the root flare when you plant or re-pot.
When doing this, be sure your seedlings never dry out while in the containers. this can do harm not evident for a year or to.
Another thing that I have found is that oaks are somewhat more susceptable to scales where several are grown in containers in the same area.
BTW, you spelled Chinquapin correct and it is one of my favorite oaks. |
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