Growing Oak Trees from Acorns - Easiest Method

Hi everyone, today I'm showing you how to grow Oak trees from acorns, Acorns are the seed from an oak tree.
Oak trees are incredibly easy to grow from seed and I'll show you the easiest method I've found to get them off to a great start.
I'm also running an experiment growing them in water as indoor plants.
Hope you enjoy today's video.
Thanks for watching 🌱🌱😊🌱🌱

[Mike]

My niece started hers in a paper cup in Kindergarten. She's 20 now and the tree is over 10 feet tall and I just collected 1 acorn, 3 still on the tree. Thanks for the tips!

[donnavorce]

I planted, carefully about 18 fresh acorns, and zero sprouted. The squirrels planted about 100 and these sprouted. Now I let the squirrels do it and lift the baby trees up when needed. ; )

[grahamdouglas]

My son has a 2 acre field on which he now wishes to grow trees. In 2021, I started planting a variety of trees but will plant mostly Oaks. In my garden, I have a glorious Oak tree that I believe is around 110 years old. My calculation of its age is derived from the circumference of the bough, 1 metre from the ground (275 centimetres) divided by 2.5. Last autumn (2022) I picked 18 acorns just as they were about to drop and planted them in pots of damp compost, leaving them in my cool garage for the winter. I took them outside at the very beginning of March 2023 and now, nearly 3 months later, have 16 Oak saplings doing really well. 2 of them have sprouted double boughs - which I will leave to see how they develop, in comparison to the single boughs. I will give them 2 or 3 years in pots and transfer them to my son's field and build guards around them all, to try and protect them from pesky vermin, rabbits and sheep. I am totally absorbed by this project and one day (long after I have shuffled off this mortal coil!) my few years of planting and developing these wonderful trees will be a magnificent site to behold - I hope. I so enjoyed your video Kit, many thanks.

[christinealanizgutierrez]

Thank you for sharing your skills on growing oak seeds. Your method is the best one I found to work great ! I tried with wet paper towels, ziplock bags and so on. Congratulations, your method is # 1 as far as I’m concern. I hope this helps out other gardeners who are just starting out or even professionals. It can blow your brain 🤯 when you don’t know what your doing wrong in growing beautiful trees, plant, and shrubs. Thank you again. 😊

[thatperson]

So Cool! I have a 150 year old oak tree in my garden and it’s massive! Has a hole in the middle that you can climb up and has very thick trunks and I love it!

[Firstfrostbowhunt]

I believe acorns from the White Oaks family begin growing the year they hit the ground. Acorns from the Red Oak family need stratification and do need an over wintering in cold storage either artificial in refrigeration or naturally thru an outside winter period. The Reds will then sprout and begin to grow the following spring after dropping.

[Servantof]

I really enjoyed this video. Especially when you were searching for little trees in the forest

[DanaKinzer]

Okay so how do you get start the germination process when you can’t find any on the ground that have already started? That’s what I came to YouTube to find out.

[frankf.marcus]

Hey thanks man...that was Full Oak Tree School for new oak tree forest homeowners like me...I needed this info...

[rolfnilsen]

I live at 63degNorth so at the upper limit of where oaks will produce mast. I gathered nuts and planted, probably a fair bit deeper than neccessary. Most of those acorns sprouted in 1 to 7 years. I was pretty surprised when the acorns I had written off as dead sprouted after so many years.
I have put acorns in pots indoor in autumn and they have sprouted willingly.

The only times I have had trouble getting them to sprout was when I tried to store them in the fridge and other advanced methods.

It is about that time of year again when I go out and gather acorns, working on my private oak forrest :-)

[padude]

That last way of growing oak trees is definitely the easiest and fastest way! I do enjoy watching plants grow though. Ive found about 60 or so white oak acorns the last couple weeks and I have about 20 in small pots already.

[mnkyjumpinonbed]

I am curious how the three seeds did that you put in water only. Did they develop bigger roots? Did they sprout a stem & leaves?

[herbedwards]

very interesting, thank you and greetings from Paradise, NL, Canada

[TheEggmaniac]

Great video. A couple of years ago I collected quite a lot of acorns from highlands of Scotland and planted them out in pots, the next spring. Most of them sprouted and were doing well. Unfortunately the local grey squirrels dug most of them up and ate them, even though they had germinated. The few remaining ones seemed to die from a infestation of inch worms. But i will try again next year.

[debrapaulino]

Very interesting! Thank you. How deep would you estimate the tap root of that 4 yr. one? How well do they do transplanted? Would a younger or older do better? It would seem the older has more risk of root damage but Idk anything about it.

[FASIGMAN]

Just come across your channel very interesting subscribed thank you.

[FrankieOfficial]

When I have first planted it do I have to keep it inside or outside? Also what time of year do the acorns sprout 🌱? Thanks for the video ❤

[valoriegriego]

Howdy Kit!✌️ That was fun! 😃 I never thought about growing an oak tree in a pot. Our squirrels are great at planting a few in my pots and around the yard. I have a small one in a garden bed that I was going to dig up and throw away. Now I'm going to dig it up and put it in a pot.
Any tips on how to care for it?😃
Looking forward to watching your seeds grow on.👍

[jaxgardens]

Love this!! Where is your part 2 to this video? I want to see how your water acorns did and how you would plant the seedlings. Im failing miserably over here zone 4b MN USA

[barecavebear]

I have never seen them sprout on the ground like yours. The ones in my area have worms in them seems a couple hours after they hit the ground hence I want to pick them off the few white oaks we have near me (this is a good year 2024 as last year there were few).