What? No pictures?

Congratulations anyways! 😉

It won’t let me post a pic!! ugh

Try now. It doesn't always work unless you put pix in a new comment.

I'd assume then that you've had some rain in your high-desert spot? :)

Here's mine this morning.

First flush, it put on about a foot up high and 8-10" on the side branches.

Second flush, is still going but so far, 16" on the high leaders and about a foot or so on side branches. Go Quercus m. Go! 🤣

Not much rain, just the same amount of irrigation as any other year. The difference this year is it has been HOT. they say “hottest year on record”. Probably indeed warmest of my lifetime.

The heat does make a difference.

Even trees here, that haven't been babied and were on the dry side, pushed some new growth, albeit a mere inch or so, when the 90's were common for the last few weeks.

Any acorns?

PS: My acorns are few. The tree must've put all its energy into growth.

Nice!

The acorns are always tiny. much smaller than pictures I’ve seen. But what does grow by summer’s end always gets eaten quickly

Here is it in full. Was waiting for it to reach out to its maxium . I think it has. It’s starting to actually look like a real tree after 9 years. 😂 That’s one of my sons in the photo

Nice kid and nice paper(?) birch there.

Thanks , Ben. that’s john. He actually won the state wrestling championship for 9/10 y/o this year. And those are two cut leaf silver birch.

Also, Ben, my kids are obsessed with that Seals and Croft hummingbird song. A few weeks ago we saw one and I played it. They listen to and sing it all the time now! The first time I heard it was on here when you posted it! ha ha

Nice tree, appears larger than mine. :-)

L Clark, Seals and Croft have a number of hit songs. Summer breeze is a very good one -- first link is live.

https://youtu.be/1KnK3z6DKaI

Then the studio/radio version w/flutes & electric guitar.

https://youtu.be/GQQbjpomexo

Biggest acorn yet! Could I grow this?

If something doesn't eat it first.

You have to leave it fully ripen until the stage that it would drop off the tree.

Then put it in a pot of soil and protect it from varmints.

I did a bicolor last year.

I placed the pot in the ground and piled mulch on it, near the house.

Next season it sprouted.

L Clark, if you have squirrels, they might find it first. And that acorn almost looks like an overcup oak acorn. Could be provenance of your tree -- bur oak can be variable.

TBH, those leaves appear to be Quercus lyrata (overcup oak).

But we'd need a better photo of mature leaf in good shape.

Is overcup oak hardy in zone 3/4?

L Clark,

I'm not sure exactly where you live but looking at the Wyoming map, unless you're north of Laramie, or way West, the updated USDA map of 2023 show very little zone 3 anymore. There's a lot more zone 4b, 5a and 5b than there used to be.

Could be bur x overcup oak. I agree the leaves don't look like usual bur oak. I've got 2 oaks of questionable heritage, one a supposed swamp white x bur that looks like a pure swamp white, and a supposed pure shumard oak that looks like a hybrid w/some other oak.

I'm not 100% sure about mine either.

I live in an area where it could be a natural cross and it doesn't quite look like a pure bur oak that I've seen around here. But it's a variety of white oak and that was my goal back then. ;-)

check out these weird galls

All galls are weird. unless you're a scientist. 😉

There are many different types I see on my bur oak.

But for some reason, this year, I don't see hardly any.

I think those few acorns I pictured above, were the only ones I had this season.

But oh the growth was excellant!

Quercus macrocarpa: Beginning to grow outward at all levels, as expected.

Takes a long time for them to settle in and start growing