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Hottest oak youve ever seen?

catman529 said:
They've done studies on that and showed that fertilizer had little to no effect on acorn production. Sunlight, competition from other trees, and individual tree genetics determine which ones produce the best.
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Are you aware of any studies regarding palatability of acorns? Production isn't an issue.... the deer are walking by thousands of other acorns on the ground from other red oaks within 100y of this tree to eat THESE acorns. Darndest thing I've ever seen. My camera has 3 deer feeding on them right now (noon). Something just makes these acorns taste better than all the others around.
 
Have mature oaks of all types all over our property. Have never noticed any trees to be quite like that, but haven't ever run a trail cam on acorn crop either.
 
megalomaniac said:
Are you aware of any studies regarding palatability of acorns? Production isn't an issue.... the deer are walking by thousands of other acorns on the ground from other red oaks within 100y of this tree to eat THESE acorns. Darndest thing I've ever seen. My camera has 3 deer feeding on them right now (noon). Something just makes these acorns taste better than all the others around.
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I'm not aware of any studies. The deer know something we don't, they're the ones eating those bitter things lol
 
I have watched deer walk right past other white oaks to get to one particular white oak. Same type of trees on the same ridge and this one tree has always been preferred. That was until this year. No idea what's going on but this year the acorns are rotting on the ground. Deer won't touch it
 

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