{"id":17435,"date":"2016-08-23T06:03:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T06:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=17435"},"modified":"2016-08-23T06:03:38","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T06:03:38","slug":"oak-trees-do-red-oaks-produce-acorns-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/oak-trees-do-red-oaks-produce-acorns-every-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Oak trees:  do red oaks produce acorns every year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares the answer to a question he&#8217;s long harboured.<\/h1>\n<p>Generally, red oak acorns take two years to mature.  Does that mean the tree drops a crop of acorns only every second year?<\/p>\n<p>According to Cathy Blumig of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outdoorlife.com\/articles\/hunting\/2007\/09\/mast-production-nutshell\">outdoorlife.com<\/a>, red oaks flower every year.  Therefore, they certainly can produce acorns every year:  this fall&#8217;s acorns will be from the flowers of sixteen months ago, rather than from the recent spring.  Next year&#8217;s acorns, in turn, will be from this spring&#8217;s flowers.<\/p>\n<p>While the quantity of acorns from a red oak may vary from year to year, the tree can definitely produce them every year.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shares the answer to a question he&#8217;s long harboured. Generally, red oak acorns take two years to mature. Does that mean the tree drops a crop of acorns only every second year? According to Cathy Blumig of outdoorlife.com, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/oak-trees-do-red-oaks-produce-acorns-every-year\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oak trees:  do red oaks produce acorns every year?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779,181,1218],"tags":[1832],"class_list":["post-17435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-lifestyle","category-yard-work","tag-do-red-oaks-produce-acorns-every-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17435"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17441,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435\/revisions\/17441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}