McGerm wrote:
Last fall I collected some acorns from the forests around my area. The
acorns from trees of the white oak group sprouted in December and are
about 8" tall. (They are growing under my orchid HID lights.) The ones
that I think were from the red oak group have yet to do anything, they
were chilled from Oct 15-Jan1st. Two questions: Should I plant the
white oak ones out this year or keep them potted until next year. How
much longer should I wait on the red oaks?

I went back to where I collected the acorns to get a better ID on the
trees. The white oak acorns came from a tree with leaves that looked
most like a chestnut oak but had had some lobed oak shape to them.
Could the parent tree be a hybrid and if so with what? The red oaks
had no leaves still attached so my best guess is from the acorns...pin,
red, or black oak.

I'm not sure I understand your last sentence, but Pin Oaks often hold
many of their leaves until spring. I don't know of other Oaks that do that.

As far as planting them, unless it's just for fun, I'd get permission to
dig up some seedlings and plant them right away, or mark them and do it
in the fall. I have thousands you can pick from and wouldn't notice if
you took a couple hundred.

Tony

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