I just recently purchased 60 acres that is loaded with cedar thickets and huge oak trees. It seems that this year acorns are around every corner and already falling at a steady rate. Pin Oakes whites reds... doesent seem to matter. Anyone else seeing this?
Raining Acorns???
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plinker22
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Huge quantity of acorns all over my properties. Hard for Hunters, wonderful for Deer.
BSK
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And the earliest heavy acorn drop I can remember.
Coon_huntr4life
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I have also a few persimmon trees that no joke, fallen over, bent 90 degrees from being so heavy laden with fruit set.
The early, high frequency rain events late spring into early summer were a 'perfect storm' for hard and soft mast.
I wish I would've set out some sweet corn for myself. A cousin put out peaches&cream and had an abundant yield.
The early, high frequency rain events late spring into early summer were a 'perfect storm' for hard and soft mast.
I wish I would've set out some sweet corn for myself. A cousin put out peaches&cream and had an abundant yield.
my spot in west central KY is loaded! but my Plateau property in TN, didn't have all that many, from what I saw this weekend, which was expected as we had a bumper crop of chinkapins and reds last year. seems my place is opposite of the rest of the state every year
TboneD
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Red oaks, yes.
I've got whites and chestnut oak acorns raining down at my house right now.
catman529
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Red oaks are dropping everywhere, but most white oaks aren't quite ready yet. I did find one big chinkapin today that is already dropping green acorns, and I flushed a flock of turkeys out from under it.
callemquacktn
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I have been searching for acorns and haven't found any. I have several whites and reds. Going out in the morning to search some other land and see if I can locate some. I did find some loaded persimmon trees though.
I hung a stand under a white oak that is absolutely dumping them by the dozen. I park at work under a couple of pin Oakes and my truck bed is full of acorns. I've notice them in the streets of some large over hanging Oakes in town. It seems in lincoln county that there dropping early and often.
Bone Collector
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reds are loaded and dropping on my place, but whites are bare.
My oaks in Carroll County are still holding acorns; persimmon trees are loaded with green fruit; Also, I'm just putting in plots this week, so opening of bow season will likely focus on travel corridors leading into standing ag fields...
I do have a stand actually IN a pin oak, and last weekend it was loaded with them, but not raining down yet. I suspect they are starting to fall about now tho.
oldmanelrod
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Makes me wonder what Mother Nature may have in store for us wth the large mast crop and the early falling of it?
BSK
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oldmanelrod said:
Nature can't possibly know what the weather is going to be in the future. Nature only reacts to what is occurring. In essence, the early acorn drop is in response to conditions that have already occurred, not what conditions will occur in the future.
That said, the best long-range forecasters I know of are predicting a very cold and snowy winter for TN.
Yes! Now that's what I've been wanting to hear! 
oldmanelrod
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BSK said:
BSK,
I hope you are right about the "cold and snowy winter for TN." Remember it isn't nice to fool with Mother Nature.
Is it rude to say "Bah-humbug" to the cold and snowy forecasts?
BSK
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JCS said:
JCS,
Our winters are never hard enough to kill deer. Winter-kill only occurs in areas that experience long periods of deep snow.
diamond hunter
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If you go looking at persimmons right now,there will be trees that are green with none turning and trees that are turning and falling.Im sure Id at least hunt a couple trees that at least have some falling on the ground.Im looking for later drop on my farm.
Kevin B.
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While squirrel hunting here in Hardin County, I have been on the lookout for whiteoak trees that are full. Most are empty (white oaks) and have no mast. Plenty of white oak acorns last year on my lease. Guess I'll carry my Kindle reader into the stand this year. At least I can read in peace for a few hours. lol
Just checked the chestnut oaks and they are loaded and still holding on good. Caps are still green and look like they still have some growing to do. Last year 4 acorns would just about fill my hand up they were so big.
BSK
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JCS said:
Whites Oak acorns are fertilized and grow in the same year. Red Oak acorns are fertilized one year but grow the next year. But that doesn't mean a single red oak tree can't produce every year. It can. But each individual acorn took two years to be produced.
JCDEERMAN
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Not many white acorns this year at all on our place. Quite a few mountains but not as loaded as normal
BSK said:
Did you personally ask Mother Nature this or get it from a third party, haha?
Seriously, positive, negative and direct correlations with nature are always determined expos facto. Kinda like global warming, how can we possibly know what nature is going to do next year or how is it going to react to certain environmental factors that are relatively new. Its just the sun stupid!
We are cutting timber on a trac in a few years, I will be anxious to study some of the tree rings and see how this years compare to other recent years. Our mast crop is great, the leaves are turning perfectly and the understory is thicker than ever before...
