Phil Stevens wrote:Hi Justin and welcome to permies! Where are you? Climate, soil, and species will all play parts in determining how quickly a seed-grown tree bears acorns. I have a 20-year-old royal oak (Quercus robur) that is nearly 15 m tall and produces lots of acorns every year. One of those sprouted seven years ago, I potted it up, then planted it by the front gate. It bore acorns last year (age 6) and there are now seedlings under it. So there is a data point. Our climate is maritime temperate (never hot, light frost), annual rainfall 1200 mm, soil is silt loam with decent fertility, and trees in general grow fast here.
Wow thank you for that information. How do you maintain the oak trees, Do you prune them so you can harvest or do you just harvest when the acorns fall off the tree.
