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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: min200 on October 22, 2008, 21:37

Title: Spanish Acorns
Post by: min200 on October 22, 2008, 21:37

We brought back some Spanish acorns from our last jolly over there.  When would be the right time to plant them?  Ive had them about two weeks and they were freshly fallen from the tree.

We would like to grow them in pots to start off with.

Help please as my daughter is pestering me to get them sorted!!

Title: Spanish Acorns
Post by: agapanthus on October 22, 2008, 21:40

Pot them up and see what happens!!! :)

Title: Spanish Acorns
Post by: min200 on October 22, 2008, 21:42

If they were kept in pots indoors would it still be spring before any shoots appear (dont laugh im new at this!!)

Title: Spanish Acorns
Post by: richyrich7 on October 23, 2008, 00:18

English acorns need a period of cold weather to make them germinate, not sure about Spanish ones.

Could you rethink sowing them and grow English oak instead ? they will support more indigenous wild life in the long run  :D

Title: Spanish Acorns
Post by: min200 on October 23, 2008, 07:46

Maybe as well as the spanish ones :)   I will put them in pots and leave them outside.  Pics to follow if it works!!

Title: Spanish Acorns
Post by: Salmo on October 23, 2008, 09:57

You are probably violating all sorts of laws about importing seeds.

The danger is that you might bring in some nasty disease which could attack out native plants.

A recent example of this is the diseases that are currently destroying our horse chestnuts.

Back in the 1970s Dutch Elm Disease whiped out virtually all of out Elm trees and changed the English countyside for ever.

This of course applies to all sorts of seeds and plant material.

Title: Spanish Acorns
Post by: min200 on October 23, 2008, 12:44

Oh..mmmm..best not plant them then eh!!

Funny tho because i had my bag searched on the way out ( I always do must be the mug!) and they didnt take them off of me?

A friend also brought back some tulips from Amsterdam a few weeks back and they were not taken away either?

Must have been lucky!

Title: Spanish Acorns
Post by: gobs on October 27, 2008, 21:24

I'm absolutely uncertain about this, but I so figure in the back of me mind, that we might have more acorn/oak tree variety, especially in Scotland, than Spain except for some evergreen types, which would probably die on you anyway. :wink:

Why don't you grow some you find in the park or what the squirrel planted, I have plenty of those seedlings every year. :roll:  :lol: