Southern Research Station

Title: Nuttall Oak Direct Seedings Still Successful After 11 Years

Author: Johnson, Robert L.

Date: 1983

Source: Res. Note SO-301. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 3 p.

Station ID: RN-SO-301

Description: Forty-five hundred acorns of Nuttall oak (Quercus nuttallii Palmer) were either machine or manually sown at 2-, 4-, or 6-inch depths in a 20-acre, intensively site-prepared clearing within the Delta Experimental Forest located near Stoneville, Mississippi. Field germination averaged 36 percent; no significant differences in germination appeared among seeding methods or sowing depths. After 11 years, two-thirds of the Nuttall oaks, or 551 per acre, were free-to-grow: they averaged 2.1 inches dbh and 16.7 feet tall.

Keywords: Quercus nuttallii, sowing, seeding regeneration

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Johnson, Robert L.  1983.  Nuttall Oak Direct Seedings Still Successful After 11 Years.   Res. Note SO-301. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station. 3 p.