{"id":1882,"date":"2010-07-31T14:43:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T21:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2010-08-01T08:32:52","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T15:32:52","slug":"kb-acornseed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/1882","title":{"rendered":"KB acornseed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are lucky to have several large oak trees on our property here. They are native <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emory_oak\">emory oaks<\/a>. We have tried to care for these oaks, especially a few of the smaller ones.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that we have read that they produce acorns every year, we have been told by locals that the ones here only produce every 4 or 5 years. Folks were hoping this would be the year, and indeed it is.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, we collected a bunch of acorns with the hopes of planting some new trees. We&#8217;ve read up on how to do this and are optimistic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0267.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1891\" title=\"IMG_0267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0267-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0267\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0267-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0267-775x1024.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_0267.JPG 1514w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we planted some. We planted two areas in a ravine where water collects when it rains and where our other oaks are growing. We&#8217;ve marked the planting areas with circles of rocks so we can watch how they go.<\/p>\n<p>We also planted a few in washed out 5-gallon buckets. Once they sprout and are doing well, we&#8217;ll transplant.<\/p>\n<p>Most of what I read seems to indicate that red oaks (which is the family the emories belong to) do not germinate until the following spring. Other things I&#8217;ve read say that the germination is tied to the rainy season, which we are definitely in. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are lucky to have several large oak trees on our property here. They are native emory oaks. We have tried to care for these oaks, especially a few of the smaller ones. Despite the fact that we have read that they produce acorns every year, we have been told by locals that the ones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-oaks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}