Put one of these in the ground a couple weeks ago up at the farm. Anyone have experience with these? There are some on campus and the production is unreal...

I didn't figure you for an Auburn guy

I planted 5 last year bout all I got

Nuttall Oak's are by far my favorite. Nice size acorns and some drop really late.

Killed a few good bucks on public land in MS under Shumard Oaks.

Just put a few in pots and transplanted a few I dug up. They do drop late and heavy. Several trees at work are still loaded with acorns right now.

This is under one on campus.

Joe rake them up and dump them in your hunting spot. My bucks eat them before they really mess with the corn.

Funny you say that, I have a rake and bucket in the backseat...

Google says they don't produce until 25yrs of age. That's a long time to wait to hunt over an oak tree.

The heck with that then!

They produce a LOT younger than that. Very pretty fall trees also.

I thought that was the case as there is no way that some of the trees that I've seen dropping in parking lots could be 25 years old. But everything I read said 25yrs. Maybe I was looking at the wrong info.

I kept seeing the same too after you mentioned it. Trees on campus can’t be 25+ with how small they are.

the difference is the spacing they are planted on, competition,and if they are fertilized. Normal growth with competition it is probably 25 years But how they are planted as ornamentals many times skews those.first production numbers.

for reference: Just went to a seminar on oak biomass production planted in monocultures the swamp.chestnut oaks grew the fastest and nuttall grew the slowest.
However, that study was probably biased due to the dryness of the site. Match your species to your site conditions and you'll get the best production. Travel a little further south to get your seed source and that should help.too.

If it was me I'd focus on planting soft mast. But everywhere I hunt is 60+% oak species.

IIRC, they produce the most BTU's of heat of any tree when burned.

I went to the doctor a couple weeks ago and where I parked the ground was covered in those same type of acorn. I picked up about 10 of them and am gonna try to get them started in pots at the house and then transplant them where I hunt. Should've seen the looks I was getting out there in the parking lot picking those things up it was hilarious. The tree that they were coming off of really wasn't that big which surprised me for the amount it dropped and the size of them.

They were HOT deer magnets this year where I hunt. We didn't have any white oaks so the deer flocked to them. Killed a few does under them.