Growing Oak Trees From Acorns One Year Exactly Update

hey buddy what you got there acorns let me see what kind of treated those acorns fall from oak trees oak trees so we gonna do with those acorns okay complaint oak trees you remember the oak trees we planted last year you think do you think they've grown since then let me see your acorns again very good you think you wanna go check on those acorns we planted last year and see how they're doing yes all right okay so my son and I are gonna be planting those acorns that he just found in the woods over there here on our overgrown garden as of this recording right now it's the end of October 2018 last October 2017 as we sat in the yard or hung out here on the homestead and listened to the acorns fall and hit our neighbors tin roof on their work sheds and crunched on him underfoot while we were hiking in the woods we got the idea what would happen if we just took a bunch of these acorns just put them off to the side somewhere in one of our Gardens and covered them with about an inch of soil and we just waited I actually googled it see what would find out what happened and I found out it takes five years for an oak tree to grow up to five feet tall that's about the size you can start seeing them in the stores when you buy trees in stores and they cost about a hundred bucks oh and so we tossed the idea around off and on about having a nursery here growing trees from seeds from nuts to perhaps maybe someday having our own nursery and we're as human as everybody else as human as each and every one of you watching this video and so our first thought was oh my gosh five years is so long well here we are it's a year later in the last year has gone by so fast I have no clue where the time went so now what we're gonna do is I'm gonna move some weeds off to the side where we put all these acorns last year we must have put 2008 corns in here we're gonna see what they've done over the course of the first year of being in the ground I brought my tape measure so we're gonna get actual numbers let's have a look okay guys so you can't really tell maybe you can but underneath all the weeds there's all kinds of oak trees I went through and pulled some weeds out here and I pulled some weeds out here where I looked like we had a pretty big cluster now we put our acorns in this entire section of this garden which is probably 6 feet wide and probably 15 feet long I know we put at least 2008 corns in here it was our hopes last spraying this past spring to be able to get them all potted up as they started to bud out but time got away from us we were so busy with other things that never happened so we would probably have five times as many oak trees as we currently do but we still have quite a few now let's take a look what is that where's the inches part 13 14 15 15 inches 16 inches so in its first year this one grew 16 inches now look at all these oak trees I'm gonna try to get my it looks like a poison ivy patch but these are actually baby oak trees there's some under the weeds here back here is a bunch these all grew from acorns and I'm going to connect some videos to the end of this video so you can see the actual time frame we made this is probably the third video we've made on this little patch of baby Oaks it started from acorns okay let's see how's this one doing 16 inches okay 16 inches but these are the taller ones how about this one 13 inches and then there's some shorter ones like here's a little short one so guys it looked like the information I got from Google was pretty accurate in the first year it's been almost a year to the day our little baby oak trees that we're growing from acorns have grown one foot so if I were to estimate how many baby oak trees we have in this little patch of the garden again I'd say we started out with 2008 corns we couldn't thin him out a lot more would have lived have we been able to thin out the root systems but I was busy my wife was busy we were just busy we're doing the gardening trying to do chickens and I was working seven days a week there for a while off the homestead but we still probably have I don't know maybe to between two and three hundred oak trees in here so the goal is now to just let them go dormant here this winter and then next spring have the time make the time and take the time to jump on them and get them potted up in the pots we have so that we can thin their roots out the root systems out so they'll have a better chance of survival and we'll just keep going forward what used to be having to wait five years to have oak trees that were marketable in the retail sector has now become four years so guys like it or not ready or not time passed as it goes by you know that so if you're watching this in the fall and you know the acorns are out there coming off the oak trees go out there and get some up and plant them in a coffee can plant them in a bucket plant them in the yard they do grow as you've seen and always remember like they say the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago but the next best time to plant a tree is today so thanks for being here with us for another video from homesteading off the grid and we'll see you for more next time

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Keywords: oak, tree, maple, acorn, plant, fall, forest, woods, father, son, grow, nursery, money, five, years, foot, feet, how, to, how to, DIY, garden, gardening, white, red, nut, seed, time, harvest, homestead, homesteading, off, grid, off grid

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Length: 5min 42sec (342 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 27 2018