Found out last week that a single mature oak can drop over 10,000 acorns in one season.

I read it in an arborist journal while waiting for a repair and it blew my mind because I always figured it was way less, has anyone else noticed a huge mast year messing with their cleanup schedules?

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alex_hall911mo ago

Man, 10,000 acorns sounds about right for a good year. I remember one fall a few seasons back where my whole yard was just carpeted in them, and I was raking for like two weekends straight... ended up just using a leaf blower to push them into a giant pile, but then the squirrels went crazy and spread them all back out again. It's wild how one tree can just totally dominate your cleanup plans like that.

simon_sanchez581mo ago

Those squirrels know exactly what they're doing too, they'll stash them in every flower pot and gutter within a block radius. One year I counted seventeen baby oaks sprouting from just one corner of my garden where they'd buried their haul.