Went to visit family in Austin Texas this past Thanksgiving. Gathered quite a few acorns under a tree at the motel we stayed at while there and planted as soon as we got home in this 12" bulb pan.
Going to move them to individual pots in a day or two. Since the seed is from farther south, I'll probably have to treat them like sub tropicals here.
This has become a popular landscape tree here.
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Randy,
Nice little crop you have going there. I am in a similar situation in that I can't keep them outside. I just made it through my second winter with a Live Oak, Quercus virginiana I believe. I have been keeping it in an attached, but unheated, garage that gets cold but usually not bitterly so. The same location that I keep my Chinese Elms.
The first year I left it there all winter and it came through fine. This year with the extreme temps we experienced I panicked and brought it into the cellar with my Jades and Ficus. New buds leafed out quickly.
I don't really know what to do with it beside keeping it growing. There is a sort of lump at the base and the trunk extends from it at an angle as well as a large root that emerges from the soil. I began to reduce the root a week or so ago. Here is a picture.
Norm
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Nice little crop you have going there. I am in a similar situation in that I can't keep them outside. I just made it through my second winter with a Live Oak, Quercus virginiana I believe. I have been keeping it in an attached, but unheated, garage that gets cold but usually not bitterly so. The same location that I keep my Chinese Elms.
The first year I left it there all winter and it came through fine. This year with the extreme temps we experienced I panicked and brought it into the cellar with my Jades and Ficus. New buds leafed out quickly.
I don't really know what to do with it beside keeping it growing. There is a sort of lump at the base and the trunk extends from it at an angle as well as a large root that emerges from the soil. I began to reduce the root a week or so ago. Here is a picture.
Norm
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