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2024 acorn crop

My biggest downfall every year is when I go to scout or set Treestand locations, I always forget my binoculars. And as I get older, I simply can't see them up in the trees with my naked eye. sometimes it's hard to see them with binoculars up there 😂
 
Bone Collector said:
My biggest downfall every year is when I go to scout or set Treestand locations, I always forget my binoculars. And as I get older, I simply can't see them up in the trees with my naked eye. sometimes it's hard to see them with binoculars up there 😂
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I try to remember to have binos with me whenever I'm working on the place. But either the white oak acorns are still too small to see even with binos, or they're not there.
 
TheLBLman said:
Part of why I pay little attention before September.

Another issue is that, until those acorns actually hit the ground, you really don't know whether they're "good" or not. And many of the acorns aren't going to hit the ground before October.
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Very true. I remember years when the trees were loaded, but due to a late summer drought, the acorns were empty or just shriveled up inside the shell once they fell.
 
Every tree ive looked at is loaded here in the east
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White oak acorns are finally large enough to see. We have a very minimal crop. Few trees carrying, and those that are carrying have few acorns. Also noticed clusters of acorns where only one is full sized. The others are just buttons, which means they won't mature.

A few more acorns on red and black oaks. The only trees I've seen loaded (and that's just a few) were all red oaks.

From what I'm seeing now, on a scale of 0 to 10, I would give this year's crop a 2 or 3. But heck, I'll take a 2 or 3 over zero!
 
In my experience, I have rarely seen back to back good or great acorn crops. Last year was probably the most I've ever seen, but that was following three poor to below poor acorn years.

I always want a good acorn crop. Anything to help wildlife is a good thing. Don't understand people that actually want failures just to help their food plot hunting.
 
woodsman04 said:
In my experience, I have rarely seen back to back good or great acorn crops. Last year was probably the most I've ever seen, but that was following three poor to below poor acorn years.

I always want a good acorn crop. Anything to help wildlife is a good thing. Don't understand people that actually want failures just to help their food plot hunting.
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The last few years, as long as we had some acorns, drawing deer to our ridge-and-hollow hardwood property has not been a problem. Even in years I gave a "2" on my 0-10 scale. But the years we've had zero acorns? Terrible!
 
BSK said:
The last few years, as long as we had some acorns, drawing deer to our ridge-and-hollow hardwood property has not been a problem. Even in years I gave a "2" on my 0-10 scale. But the years we've had zero acorns? Terrible!
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Same. Give me a 3-8 out of 10 and I'm happy. I'll check ours this weekend and see what they look like.
 
BSK said:
The last few years, as long as we had some acorns, drawing deer to our ridge-and-hollow hardwood property has not been a problem. Even in years I gave a "2" on my 0-10 scale. But the years we've had zero acorns? Terrible!
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I agree. Acorns in my experience are the number one favorite foods of deer.
They can eat on them all day long and stay in the woods.

Hard to beat cool October days listening to whitetails eating acorns.
 
None in north Williamson, I don't even have bur oaks which are usually loaded on the trees I planted many years ago.

Persimmons are also extremely down. Most of producers do not have any. I've found a couple of trees that will produce but they are slim.

I have not scouted my dickson county place. I expect it to have more acorns. The Williamson County spots have received very little rain.
 
Didn't see any acorns at all on Saturday in Hickman. Didn't go into the bottoms, but up on the ridges there were none. Persimmons are there but started dropping due to stress - probably won't be any left in a few weeks. I wasn't planning on a brassica in our fall mix, but may add some now.
 
We did a pretty thorough evaluation of the acorn crop (with good binoculars) over the weekend. Worse than I thought. Almost no White Oak acorns at all. Probably 1 in 20 Reds had them. The most consistent producers were the Black Oaks (in the Red family). But if I had to give a score, considering what we saw, on my 0-10 scale, I would give 0.5. :mad:

And this drought is really starting to kill us, with no improvement in sight. Climate Center is predicting the drought to worsen over the next month. We've had no real rain since July 23 and none in the 15-day forecast.
 

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