How to grow an oak tree from an acorn/seed: selection, stratification, planting.

Collecting swamp oak acorns in late autumn. We select healthy acorns. Place the marsh oak acorns in a vessel with water. The acorns that start to pop up are bad. We process live healthy acorns with potassium permanganate and prepare them for wintering in a cold place (stratification). Put moss, sawdust, bark in a strong bag with small holes. We process oak acorns with copper sulfate and place in a bag. We put it in the refrigerator for a couple of months in November. At the end of February or the beginning of March, we remove the acorns. We plant acorns that have a sprout in the ground, and the rest can be quickly germinated in damp gauze. After a couple of days, the acorns will sprout, a sprout will appear. Acorns with sprouts can be planted in pots. We make the holes a little more deep than the diameter of the acorn itself. Plant the acorn horizontally; lay it on the barrel. Sprinkle with soil and put on the sunny side, on the window, on the balcony. After a week, long oak roots and small stems will be visible in a transparent pot. After ten to twenty days, the stems will grow and the leaves of the marsh oak appear. Within five weeks we get a small 20 cm oak tree.
Timeline video:
00:00 Collection and selection of acorns
00:15 Stratification
00:46 Germination of acorns
01:00 Planting acorns in pots
01:10 An acorn becomes an oak in 5 weeks
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