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Red Oaks will start dropping acorns a few weeks after White Oaks and the falling is much more prolonged. So with White Oak acorns being preferred, Red Oak acorns falling later and slower they become a solid food source for whitetail deer in the late season.

Red Oak acorns take 24 months to mature, so there will only be a crop every other year. 4) Acorn production dramatically decreases when oaks reach a certain age and/or a certain diameter. 5) If your oak is in the red oak family, then you can typically expect heavier acorn crops every years. 6) If your oak is in the white oak family, then you can typically expect heavier acorn crops every years.

Aug 30, Red Oak: Medium tannic acid level. Deer usually won’t feed entirely on red oak acorns because of their bitterness. Black Oak: Produces a crop every other year. Medium to high tannic acid level. Usually a good spring food after winter thaw. Bur Oak: This is a very large acorn with medium to high tannic acid level.

The large size makes them. Oct 07, Tip. Only one type of tree produces an acorn, but this includes more than individual species. The acorn nut is specific to trees in the Quercus genus, collectively referred to as oaks. Sep 23, The weather, not the tree, is the main reason behind a big acorn harvest. Naoto Shinkai/Shutterstock. A common term for those good years is"a. Immature acorns fall off oak trees for a number of reasons.

Heavy rain can also have the same affect, causing the acorns to fall from the tree before they've ripened. 2. Stress. When oak trees experience drought or other stressful events during the summer, they sometimes drop their acorns prematurely. The trees get rid of the acorns early as a. Nov 11, It is well-known that oak trees produce their seeds in the form of acorns.

However, you may have noticed small purple berries or sometimes brown berries hanging from oak tree branches as well.

These peculiar purple berries on oak trees are actually not berries at all.