DMZ5 - bizarre, not a single acorn to be found

[JHbowhunter]

I am sure some of you will reply with "i am in z5, and we are loaded with acorns". 

 

Usually my woods is carpeted by now, and not a single fresh acorn on the ground. I scanned both the reds and whites all the way to the treetops, and can't find a single one hanging..

 

Oh well - bumper crop of apples, except all the leaves fell off early leaving many under-developed apples.  Strange year for mast crop with all the rain would have thought great year for acorns. 

 

My woods are best when the acorn crop is "normal". 2015 was extreme crop, and hunting sucked. I never had a season where there were none. 

[Rusty]

I'm just starting to see white oaks dropping in zone 6.  Not real heavy but they are starting.  

[Haskell_Hunter]

It might be due to some madman with a chainsaw on your property last year.  All the trees saw that and their nuts shriveled up.

 

I'm headed into the woods today to set my spot up for October.  I'll see if we have any nuts here.  My hazelnuts went berserk this year with three plants producing a few hundred nuts.

[buckhound]

with ladybird running around kicking nuts all the smart nuts are in hiding  lol    seriously though i am in zone 34 i am not seeing any acorns in trees or around them my driveway has leaves all over but not any acorns....

[BHC]

Same in Zone 4, NADA.

 

I was BSing with a CO yesterday over at the Hainsville General Store, and I told him no Acorns yet , he said he thinks it will be a good year, and they should be dropping soon

[rackemup]

I was in Zone 51 this morning and they are starting to drop pretty good now

[Bucksnbows]

I noticed some northern red oak acorns on the ground in Sparta, zone 6, the other day.  Not many, but it's early for them.  Didn't notice my white oaks, but wasn't near many of them that day to notice.  I agree, Jack.  The heavy acorn years make it tough hunting because our property is nothing but 100 acres of oak trees.  Finding a few magic spots is always impossible and wherever the heaviest dropping trees are located, we just have a bear lying on them sweeping them into his/her mouth with its front paws. 

[GhostBear]

I'm in zone 9 Flanders, the big mountain oak just outside my apartment is dropping like mad!

 

Big nuts too.

[3Blade]

They are dropping in z13, not heavily though.

[not on the rug]

I have walnuts everywhere (in z5) but no acorns dropping anywhere yet either. I'm really close to the z5/z7 border

[BHC]

I have walnuts everywhere (in z5) but no acorns dropping anywhere yet either. I'm really close to the z5/z7 border

I only got two nuts          

[68Ioweu1]

Remember last year how many there were???

That's why.

[jerseybowhunter]

Just wait till after this hurricane, there won't be an acorn left on the trees

[BHC]

Remember last year how many there were???

That's why.

zero where I hunt

[Bucksnbows]

The big drop was two years ago.  Last year was normal in my area, but the year before was insane.  The key is having enough species of oak that some mast is falling every year if you don't have row crops to feed them.  Our forest that I manage in Sparta has northern red, chestnut white, scarlet, and white oaks in that order with a good mix of red/scarlet hybrids.