Acorn drop?

[JillA]

The oak trees around my field edges don't seem to have dropped any as yet, and oddly, in a year where everything has fruited so well, there don't seem to be any still on the trees. Anyone else had acorns dropped yet?

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Nope, doing weekly checks but virtually nothing on any of my many boundary oaks so far.

 

[Liane]

My trees don't seem to have any acorns on at all.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Same! My normally massive crop of Acorns seems non-existent this year. How strange! (how lovely!)

 

[JCWHITE]

Bumper year here in France

 

[mightymammoth]

Also no acorns here on the trees. Between oaks and sycamores I'm becoming (more) neurotic.

 

[suestowford]

I have acorns. Luckily it is only one tree and in a corner so it's easy to fence it off. Sycamore seeds are everywhere though.

 

[Highlands]

Had a few, fenced off, wnd blew them... Then nothing!

 

[SO1]

Was just thinking about this today as we normally have loads and have not seen any this year.

 

[Boysy]

It's because it's a mutated year again, it you look closely at what has dropped you will see the baby acorns encased in a nobbly outer, not many of them but they are there, no interest to the ponies though thankfully.

Happens every few yrs really, last year was a Mast year so thousands of the blinkin things, 2012 was a mutated year and surprisingly this is a mutated year as well.

 

[PolarSkye]

It's because it's a mutated year again, it you look closely at what has dropped you will see the baby acorns encased in a nobbly outer, not many of them but they are there, no interest to the ponies though thankfully.

Happens every few yrs really, last year was a Mast year so thousands of the blinkin things, 2012 was a mutated year and surprisingly this is a mutated year as well.

This . . . I removed 5 wheelbarrows (yes, five . . . and my wheelbarrow is deep) of acorns from Kal's field last year . . . this year there are NONE. Sycamore seeds on the other hand . . . .

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[Tobiano]

well I have been taking out quite a few acorns… in East Anglia …. any relevance to geography do we think?

 

[irishdraft]

I have two boundary's of oak trees normally take the horses off when the acorns drop but this year not a thing and I cannot see anything on the trees either yippee !

 

[Archangel]

I checked yesterday as have some huge and lovely oak trees - not one acorn. Interesting about being a mutated year, you learn something new everyday on here!

 

[Sebastian]

It's because it's a mutated year again, it you look closely at what has dropped you will see the baby acorns encased in a nobbly outer, not many of them but they are there, no interest to the ponies though thankfully.

Happens every few yrs really, last year was a Mast year so thousands of the blinkin things, 2012 was a mutated year and surprisingly this is a mutated year as well.

Spot on. Thousands of them last year and we now have many trying to grow all over the place.

 

[Moya_999]

The oak trees around my field edges don't seem to have dropped any as yet, and oddly, in a year where everything has fruited so well, there don't seem to be any still on the trees. Anyone else had acorns dropped yet?

All our acorn tree do NOT have any acorns on them, check yours see if there are any on the trees.

 

[Pinkvboots]

No acorns on the trees and no apples on my trees either!

 

[Doris68]

Quite a lot of "normal" acorns as well as mutated ones here in Suffolk - had a lot last year too. Have fenced off all around the oak tree. Apples plentiful this year, but not as good as last.