Sawtooths

I thought about putting out 2-4 sawtooths this fall/winter. Have y'all had much luck finding them locally? I'll mess around with growing my own at some point, but would like to get a couple going ASAP if possible.

If you know anybody who has them, you could probably dig sprouts from under their trees. Ive got a friend who tries to get me to come dig some up every year, id get you some but I believe were a pretty good ways apart.

Native nursery is showing them in stock for under $4 https://www.nativnurseries.com/products/sawtooth-oak-seedlings-for-sale-quercus-accutisima

Looks great, but it turns into $44 when you have to add several trees to get to their minimum order amount and add shipping. $44 isn't terrible though.

Not sure if to far, but I get hundreds sprouted every year. You are welcome to come get some.

When we moved back to the country 10 years ago, I planted 20 from Nativ nurseries. I'm not sure if it was me learning to take care of trees or what, but I lost about half of them. I replaced the dead, and added more, from The Wildlife Group from near Tallassee and have kept them all. I saw the first acorns at 4 years and about year 6 or 7, all the trees started bearing heavily. The nice thing about The Wildlife Group is they support the hunting industry in Alabama. They are usually at both shows and I've talked with them at QDMA meetings in the state.

I would go to The Wildlife Group and deal with Allen. He is a big ugly bald headed joker but a good guy and he will take care of you.

Just go find some acorns lying on the ground underneath a tree that is already producing and put them in a 5 gallon bucket with some potting soil

Thanks guys. I drive up to Cullman (family) quite often so maybe I could swing by one day. I'll also check the few sawtooths we already have to see if any are sprouting there. I have never noticed any, but maybe haven't looked hard enough.

I know that can be done, but I'd rather have something that's already a year or two old.

a friend of mine may have some for sale, I'll ask him.

Great, thanks.

I just pick up a handful here at the house and mash them in soft dirt on my properties. I have literally thousands of them growing all over Colbert County. Easy as it gets. I usually have a lot of folks every year come by and get some of the acorns to plant.

B

Looks like a good crop this year, I’ll have a bunch of acorns if anyone wants to stop by and get some once they start dropping.

Don’t they drop really early? The ones I know about are done by Oct 15.

Mine aren't dropping on their own yet, but the storm this week blew a lot on the ground. The ones on the ground have turned brown. Give them another week and the first ones will start dropping.

B

Yes, that’s one reason this is more of a side project for fun rather than a central focus.

No offense, but I wouldn't plant any tree that was not native to the U.S. there are other oaks that grow fast if that's what your are after. Turkey oaks do.

I bought some last year from a nursery somewhere down around Cullman and all of them have survived and have done really well. They were bare root and I think I paid $10 per tree and most were between 8-10ft tall.

Place is called North Alabama Nursery and its in Joppa, had someone from here recommend it.

Something like that would be ideal! Maybe the next time I'm visiting the folks in Cullman I can swing by.

The sawtooth is an invasive species and on many U.S. lists as such.

If someone said deer love cogon or kudzu some folks would plant those. Doesn't make it right, though.

Planting natives is better.

Corn gets a pass?

Joe, my buddy in Coaling will have some for sale in Nov

Thanks for the update.

Are sawtooths an accepted agriculture crop commonly traded on the open market worldwide and something that's been here for 500 or so years?

Can you please inform our four 20-year old sawtooth oaks that are half dead from being shaded out that they need to start spreading because their buddies kudzu and cogon are having all the fun?

I agree with this post.

I don't have a problem with planting sawtooths, but I've never had a desire for planting any. I think finding naturally occurring persimmon trees and giving them some sunlight is a quicker and more effective way of accomplishing the same thing.

One man's opinion, but I'm not going to plant anything that is non-native. I have spent enough time and money fighting kudzu, privet, cogongrass, climbing fern and mimosa trees that I don't want anything else planted that shouldn't be there. Exception is the annual food plot crops like wheat, oats and soybeans.

Sawtooth Oaks fill a void in the acorn crop by dropping earlier than other oaks.

Wheat, Oats, Rice,Pears,Peaches, Apples, Chestnuts and even Turnips came from Europe. This is just a small list and I have planted most of them for the wildlife.

2-4??? Come by my place. You can have 20-40. My wife and kids are starting a tree farm soon to include Sawtooth. That will be about another year, but for now they are still free. You can be a "grass roots" client and tell all of your buddies!!

We planted about 40 sawtooths on our club in Pickens County about 20 years ago. The trees are massive now and produce a ton or mast for the deer. But yes, they drop early and all the mast is gone by October 15th. So although they aren't great to hunt over, they provide a huge amount of food for our deer. We don't regret planting them at all.

I hope you didn't plant tree's on leased land. No way in hell I would do that. I hope it was your land.

North Alabama Nursery is a great place to deal with. About 5 years ago I bought 25 Leyland Cypress ($6 each for 5 footers) from them and he threw in 6 just in case I lost a few. That was on a Saturday and they are closed on Saturday but for the amount I was buying he met me and had the trees ready.

https://www.nativnurseries.com/

Sawtooths are the bomb.

Our sawtooths are dropping now and are being vacuumed up by the deer

Whats the problem with planting sawtooths? I have about 50 we planted in 200
They are huge produce a ton of acorns, deer love them, turkey love them.
I have 60 small ones marked for a friend to come get and plant
On his place later.

We planted in 2000 not 200 sorry

I haven't seen 1 example of a sawtooth outgrowing native vegetation, and I've tried a few times, once they get a canopy over them, they are trash.

Deer do in fact love kudzu lol

I haven't seen any negatives to planting them. I planted in 2000 also and have given several acorns and sprouts away. They produce tons of acorns for wildlife yearly.

I haven't seen 1 example of a sawtooth outgrowing native vegetation, and I've tried a few times, once they get a canopy over them, they are trash.

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Apparently you are not planting them correctly. I have over 100 planted on my land and they have been producing for years. They are deer magnets.

Apparently you are not planting them correctly. I have over 100 planted on my land and they have been producing for years. They are deer magnets.
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Apparently your reading comprehension is not on point, I bet they aren't planted in the shade.

Of course they are not planted in the shade, maybe that was your problem, ya think.

You completely missed my point, I don't have a problem, I've got a bunch doing fine. The ones I lost were planted on the edge of a fresh clear cut, and I didn't make time to clean around them. Which was the whole point of my post.

Sawtooth cant be to invasive because they cant out compete native vegetation.

My neighbor told me she saw four coyotes eating acorn under my sawtooths. Middle of the day, who would have thunk it.