Acorns to Oak Trees- Part 2: Growing Trees from Seed: S01E03

[Music] hey and welcome to growing trees from seed with Jeremiah Johnson Nene for today's part 2b corn stover trees and if you haven't seen part one of a crone-stone trees feel free to click on the video link above instantly redirect to the facility if you have seen the first episode welcome back in today's episode we're gonna be looking at how to store and save your a coins or sowing planting this bridge I also wanted to show that beautiful fall colors that come with these incredible different varieties of oak trees that you don't necessarily get at the end of the summer so the purpose of today's video is to show you how to save your oak tree seeds and acorns and improperly store them over the winter so you can plant them properly in the spring so I've saved acorns from both two different types of categories being the black oaks and the white oaks and the white oak here we have specifically the Baroque and secondly from the black oak category we have one of my other favorite oak trees the red oak acorn and as you can see there's strikingly difference in comparison to one another the Burr Oak has that little feathered cap on while the red oak has just a simple flat top cap so now that we've differentiated between the two Oaks seeds or acorns that I'll be using I'll show you how to store them so I've got some peat moss mixed in with some organic soil and feel free to use any type of soil or peat moss that you may have and the purpose of this is to allow the seeds to stay dormant over the winter like they would naturally in nature so I've added my water to moisten up the peat moss and I'm gonna take another bag here and I'm going to keeping the acorns in so I'm gonna go into my pre-mixed soil here and grab a little bit of peat moss and what I'm gonna do is simply take my red oak acorn and as you can see it's quite moist taking the Acorn and I'm just gonna plant it put it directly on top of the pea mas here just like it would as if it were falling from the tree in nature landing in the moist organic soil and then being covered up with leaves debris pine needles another organic matter that may cover it up before the snow hits so now that I've placed my red oak Acorn into the peat moss in the plastic bag I'm gonna label it so I don't forget and I'm also gonna make note of where I found the Acorn and the date that I found it and this is gonna help you when you plant your acorns to make sure that you're planting it in a similar environment for example if you find an acorn that's in a very moist well-drained area with very heavy shade you're gonna want to plant that oak tree see in similar settings that way the plant itself will thrive there because that's where the tree itself was originally grown and doing very well the main reason for this is because trees generally don't show their stress or weaknesses for up to 20 to 30 years that means when you have an old-growth oak tree and you've decided to take the Acorn and use it for your own planting you'll be assured that tree is gonna grow into a very healthy tree given the environment that you chose to plant it in so now I've got my bur oak seed planted away here and you notice that I did mention that the bur oak was from the white oak category and that means it doesn't necessarily need that period of dormancy that say the red oaks or other trees from the black oak category would need so the bur oak or other White's it can actually be planted immediately after you picked them from the tree or find them on the ground so keep that in mind when you're choosing your different Oaks so there you have it we've got our two acorns packed away and I'll be keeping them in the fridge or in a cold cellar in a dark place just to kind of help simulate that period of dormancy that they would otherwise find in nature and if you haven't seen part one which I encourage you to do so I threw in this quick clip just to remind you how to find out whether your seeds are good to save or maybe best to leave below by the tree as you can see it's a simple flow test the acorns that float probably are a weevil infested or might not be doing too well and the ones that sink are good to go so thanks for watching I really hope you enjoyed part two of eight quarts to oak trees and please feel free to check out my other videos where I have many different tree saving videos such as glowing maple trees from seed please click on the video link above duty needs to be redirected to this video and many other videos from the movie series growing trees from seed so thanks again hope you enjoyed the video please subscribe and rate and we'll see you next time

Channel: JeremiahJohnson84

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Length: 5min 13sec (313 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 01 2012