acorn drop timing

[WilcoKen]

Non existent mast crop, drought ruined food plots, native browse absent …
Gonna be rough overwinter in some areas. It would be a good year to thin them doe!

This is me as well. Been dry since early June. The hurricane rain was sucked up in just a few days. Ground is very dry here. Pretty sure it will flood in Dec or Jan though.

 

[Harold Money jr]

Here in Meigs county, they are apparently still on the Chestnut oak acorns. I put a "rut movement" cell cam out in a pinch point. The area has 1 white oak and several chestnut oaks. They should have been done with the chestnut acorns weeks ago but, they're hitting em hard and the white oak hasn't dropped much if any. Btw saw 3 big rubs, those are the first real rubs I've found. I've found over 10 scrapes do things are changing.

 

[BSK]

Here in Meigs county, they are apparently still on the Chestnut oak acorns. I put a "rut movement" cell cam out in a pinch point. The area has 1 white oak and several chestnut oaks. They should have been done with the chestnut acorns weeks ago but, they're hitting em hard and the white oak hasn't dropped much if any. Btw saw 3 big rubs, those are the first real rubs I've found. I've found over 10 scrapes do things are changing.

Is that White Oak carrying acorns?

 

[Harold Money jr]

BSK,
I honestly didn't have my glasses or more importantly no binocs so I didn't try to look. There are white oaks on the woods edge that are loaded here. I took a chance last evening to hunt a couple white oaks that deer usually prefer on my farm and there was no acorns in the trees or on the ground and there had been none. I'd grade the chestnut oak production as a C- mainly for much smaller than normal acorns. The white oaks are extremely spotty, some with a lot and others apparently none.

 

[BSK]

BSK,
I honestly didn't have my glasses or more importantly no binocs so I didn't try to look. There are white oaks on the woods edge that are loaded here. I took a chance last evening to hunt a couple white oaks that deer usually prefer on my farm and there was no acorns in the trees or on the ground and there had been none. I'd grade the chestnut oak production as a C- mainly for much smaller than normal acorns. The white oaks are extremely spotty, some with a lot and others apparently none.

I'm just hoping there might be some Whites still hanging on to their acorns and they have yet to start falling.

 

[MCO8891]

I'm just hoping there might be some Whites still hanging on to their acorns and they have yet to start falling.

Family has land north of you on Kentucky Lake. About five miles from Richland Creek. South of Tennessee Ridge. After you gave your acorn report I wasn't very hopefully for our crop. We have to have acorns. Well it was a bit better than I expected but pretty bad. I can't identify different oaks but one certain type of Oak was producing. Other than that it its looks to be a bad year.

 

[BSK]

Family has land north of you on Kentucky Lake. About five miles from Richland Creek. South of Tennessee Ridge. After you gave your acorn report I wasn't very hopefully for our crop. We have to have acorns. Well it was a bit better than I expected but pretty bad. I can't identify different oaks but one certain type of Oak was producing. Other than that it its looks to be a bad year.

If you get a chance, take a close-up picture of the acorns on the ground. I would be curious what specie they are.

 

[MidTennFisher]

Seeing the same thing in upstate SC. I was wondering if the hurricane had something to do with it. We got battered pretty good, lots of trees down. I thought maybe most of the acorns got blown off the trees from the storm then covered in leaf litter, also from the storm, and that's why I'm not seeing many. But even checking creek bottoms I'm not finding a single one. It's weird. Last year was a ridiculous acorn crop. So far nothing here.