Collecting acorns for planting

It’s been a couple years since I’ve grown any oaks from acorns. I don’t have much room left in my own yard, but my nine-year-old son has taken after his dad and wants to try growing some trees.

I want to make sure I remember this correctly: I seem to remember reading at the “other forum”, that green acorns are viable once they are full sied and can be separated with a clean “pop” of the cap, leaving a clean scar. Is that accurate?

Here are a few albas my son and I got today of our mature white oak. We are about two weeks from typical alba drop time here.

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Never mind the Kennebec potato in the background. I was making dinner. :joy:

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Yep, you’re good to go.

Dax

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Yep, white oaks will germinate right away and red oaks will need a period of cold.
Good luck to you guys!

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And the White Oak acorns you can eat a few if you’re hungry…not unpleasant actually.

My son collected a bunch of bicolor yesterday too.