Acorns

[svk]

I’m staying with a friend for a couple days and his oaks are dropping acorns like mad. Been hit several times between last nights dinner and morning coffee.

Every tree on his street has acorns everywhere. Is it a high mast year elsewhere as well?

 

[Acornhill]

It’s going to be a bad winter


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[Deleted member 117362]

Good for the deer and rodents.

 

[panolo]

I noticed that myself while mowing on Saturday. I have a few big red oaks and they are dropping them hard already.

 

[Deleted member 150358]

We had a bumper crop from one tree last fall. Never seen so many acorns. Squirrel population was booming too.

 

[Deleted member 117362]

We had a bumper crop from one tree last fall. Never seen so many acorns. Squirrel population was booming too.

I fing it amazing, 80% of those little guys die every year and still survive.

 

[jrider]

It’s going to be a bad winter


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Im sorry but trees don't predict future weather. They grow in response to their conditions. Plus, I've read that every X amount of years, oak trees produce an abundance of acorns. Last year was one of those years around here.

 

[LondonNeil]

Last year was the 1 in7 acorns galore year here, I was skating about on marbles it seemed in one of the local parks. One tree dropped all galls, amazing things.

 

[Erik B]

When I have been out picking blackberries I have heard acorns dropping.

 

[buzz sawyer]

A red oak near my driveway is dropping them too, more than last year.

 

[cus_deluxe]

As said above, its a response to conditions. This summer has been exceptionally hot and dry for our area, and so many oak trees have been dropping acorns for a month or more now, mostly small and not fully formed.

 

[cus_deluxe]

Could be a bad winter for us, lake michigan is gonna be piss warm by the end of the summer, and the warmer it is, longer it takes to gain ice cover, the longer we are exposed to lake effect snow.

 

[svk]

I always read that individual trees had heavy and light mast years and perhaps this is a naturally heavy year coupled with the rainforest conditions we’ve received recently which caused the super bumper crop?

 

[svk]

Could be a bad winter for us, lake michigan is gonna be piss warm by the end of the summer, and the warmer it is, longer it takes to gain ice cover, the longer we are exposed to lake effect snow.

Piss warm, love it. Haven’t heard that term in years!

 

[old guy]

I have all white oaks, I nearly have to shovel the driveway every 3 days.

 

[Multifaceted]

None of my oaks have started dropping yet, but some of the local foliage is starting to turn, most noticeably on sycamore trees.

 

[Cody]

I have all white oaks, I nearly have to shovel the driveway every 3 days.

All Bur Oaks here and haven't noticed any yet. Our garage roof is tin so I definitely hear when they start, and where we back our vehicles out is shaded by a rather large one so you notice when you back up over them. Last year was an early year for them to fall but it was a dry year. This spring was really wet, and we haven't gone more than 3 weeks without at least an inch of rain it seems through July and August. I trimmed up quite a few trees around the acreage early this spring so I won't be able to really gauge how many fall.

 

[Johnny Yooper]

Could be a bad winter for us, lake michigan is gonna be piss warm by the end of the summer, and the warmer it is, longer it takes to gain ice cover, the longer we are exposed to lake effect snow.

+1
A bad winter for me is shoveling 4 feet of snow off the camp roof more than once.

 

[Cody]

Acorns started dropping within the past few days, picked a couple handfuls up and fed to the goats and horse. Walnuts started falling as well, temps just need to start falling more during the day.

Seems like most of them are falling without the crowns though, which seems odd to me.

 

[Cody]

Had a little help shortly after 6 this morning in the acorn felling department.