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Acorn off yr?

Micneador said:
I was actually doing some research on this subject last night. At least for the properties I hunt. The reds didn't make jack squat except for the 4 or 5 on the top of a ridge of 1 property. The 8-10 whites on the same property made a bumper crop but they were in a creek bottom like the red oaks surrounding it. One ~12' tall 4" at the base white oak looks like it has more acorns than leaves on it.

It puzzled me that the white oaks made but the red oaks less than 100 yards away didn't make any at all.
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Reds produce every other year (at best) so if they had acorns last year, they would not have them this year.
 
I wonder if drought stress has anything to do with it. Acorns here this year were weak and dropping in August which was very early.

The oaks are even dropping their leaves more than in years past. Good for fall cleanup but still odd.


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SW Va. is loaded. If there is an oak tree (white or red) it dropped. Ian came through and prematurely dropped a lot of them. The problem is there are so many acorns need to find an alternate food source. I figure the deer are much like we are as far as get tired of the same thing every day, so find something new.
 
Western massachusetts here and they’re very hit or miss. Beginning of September one of my properties had a good bit of whites on the ground. I haven’t been in there since but I’d assume them to be gone. Aside from that I’ve seen a few red oaks here and there but not much. Gonna be a good year to hunt browse.
 
Little to none where I hunt in mid Michigan and further north we’ve recently had issues with gypsum moths in the spring so acorns have been dry for 3 seasons now


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My wife’s uncle lives in the pointer knuckle of Michigan and he said the oaks dropped their acorns very early and they were quite small. Around July/august he said. None to find now. He hypothesized that michigans very dry summer caused additional stress on the trees and they dropped early as a self preservation. Who knows but there definitely leas in the thumb area.


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NMSbowhunter said:
Reds produce every other year (at best) so if they had acorns last year, they would not have them this year.
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The previous two years the same red oaks have produced on these properties. The only cluster of reds that produced this year would be 3 in a row that they made well. I wouldn't say bumper crop,but they made well.
 
Where I hunt in north central AR there is a really good crop of white oaks. In SE AR where I hunt I have covered 27 miles scouting and the only mast were persimmons but they are basically over now and overcup acorns which have a decent crop. That I have found, there are no water oaks, nuttall oaks, swamp chestnut oaks, very few willow oaks, and no pecans or honey locust.
 
You know what's crazy? I don't think I have ever seen a hot persimmon tree. We have them but they seem too always be a blank. I watch the videos by Robert Carter and Chris Spikes and Warren Womack and think "man where are my persimmons?"
 
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