Acorns

Is there a preffered way of planting acorns in pots, horizontally or vertically ?
Thanks.

 

I don't think that it matters, I've just put them in the pots.

 

Sorry to trouble you. I have just joined this group (been searching how to put up my own post and couldn't find a help section either). I came across your details and have at last found a way to speak with someone! I wanted to get something off my chest. I am feeling very sad about a cherry tree which is going to be felled tomorrow morning situated two gardens away but has been viewed by me for many years. Also, a ever growing very large conifer will be felled. Part of the cherry tree is diseased. The conifer is healthy but growing to a height that could possibly be felled naturally in a strong storm. Just wanted a fellow garden lover to hear me. Thank you

 

They will sort themselves out, nature is clever like that, the root knows to go downwards and the shoot knows to go upwards .

 

Hi @Dolphincat30 and Welcome to the Forum,


Removal of some lovely trees that have been around for decades can be like loosing an old friend .

However, if its diseased probably little can be done with it, but if the Conifer is healthy its a bit of a problem as some folk hate them while others like them.

Do you have any contact with the owners of these tree and know why they are felling the Conifer, could several reasons like poor roots or they simply do not want it ( new residents ?) or even other folk complaining about its height or light issues etc ??

Are they intending to replace them with something suitable ?


To start your own posts , once logged on and in the section you need you should see the Blue "Post New Thread" box as in the pic below.

 

Hello and welcome to GC forums.
Conifers can be troublesome when too tall, they can't be pruned into old wood so they probably thought that it was best to cut it down.

 

Hi Ricky,
I have asked if they would replace the cherry tree with another one or Alder. They haven't responded yet. The cherry tree belongs to a developer who have felled all the mature trees (replaced a few within the streets). This ones roots have spread between the borders of two gardens.
I believe as well as feeling very sad that a lot of it is guilt as the conifer is in my garden. It is now taller than my house. It is growing in width as well as height and draining the goodness out of the lawn (no grass grows around it now - about 3 feet from the tree). I have never been aware that any birds nest in there - only see the occasional sparrow fly in then quickly out again.

The fear of the conifer one day possibly blowing over in a strong storm has been mentioned to me. My garden is approximately 13 metres by say 10. I really don't know if I am doing the right thing regarding the conifer. I don't know how high it will grow or how wide. Just feeling extremely sad.

 

Hi,

Did not appreciate that the Conifer was yours.

However, have seen first had when at a friends house, this time of year, when a large tree in their garden was literally moving at the trucks base and fearful it was going to damage the house due to it being very close. They had to pay over £700 to have it cut down next morning, would have only cost a fraction of that if they had taken earlier advice to have it felled, council approved.

As you are having yours removed, then rather than being sad, look on it as an opportunity to plant another more suitable tree or two.

Start your own thread to discuss what type would like and be most suited to your location ?
Plenty of help here in GC.

 

Hello all

I planted acorns in pots in September, when should I be seeing a sign of growth? They are singularly in pots, outside, being ignored. An experiment really, I assumed it takes years to grow?

I did the ‘put in water and discard the floating ones’ test.

Thanks
Tink

 

@Tinkerbelle61 Next spring at the earliest I would think probably April-May time. Maybe leave for another winter and spring after that before disgarding.

 

Morning @NigelJ thanks for the advice, wow I didn’t think they would survive another year but glad to hear they might. Mother Nature is a wonderful thing.

Happy Friday and enjoy the snow, what s surprise it was to wake up to 2 inches here in north Essex this morning!

Thanks
Tink

 

You may well see a root coming through the drainage holes soon, the shoot won't appear until next spring as Nigel says.