Tree Talk: White Oak 

I had a white oak as a kid that was over 500 years old. Giant tree, about 7 feet in diameter and over 150 feet tall. Gorgeous tree.

Ryan, you are a great teacher! I have been nuturing my few White Oaks for a few years. Several are bigguns and I planted several others. Ya really motivate me to persist in my efforts. Thanks!

I wouldn't mind an extended video about white oaks. They've always been a favorite tree of mine. Really great delivery too!

I work for a millwork company, over the last 6 months there has been a 40% increase in the price of white oak. It's trending with interior designers because you can apply a wirebrush and ceruse finish. Barrel makers have contributed by purchasing all available inventory. You predicted this year's ago.

So refreshing to see a video like this, you clearly know your stuff!

Love it!

Awesome man, good fact about the bats. In my eyes it’s a treasure to our forests right behind the near extinct American chestnut.

Your videos are always looked forward to and appreciated. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm.

Great educational videos...appreciate the insight & connecting the importance of nature to people

Thank you. Good information.

Very informative! Glad I found your channel. I had no idea about the bats using the bark as a roost. I'm blessed to have a number of white oak on my property in Mississippi. Now I know where my bats likely stay.

Find a big Burr oak, over a dry creek bed. That’s the setup !

Another great video - thank you - much appreciated!

Perfect Latin name pronunce: Quercus alba. Bravissimo. I'm Italian.

This video id VERY informative and helpful...thank you for that...I have a White oak on my property and I have been wondering how to propagate more, thank you for this video!

White Oak is top notch firewood. Very high BTU and easy splitting.

This video was awesome! Super informational and a great study tool! Thanks!

Thanks Newt. Always enjoy your videos. That Ryan fella's pretty good too. ;)

Good point on why my area only has a few red oaks. Bad forestry habits wiped out the best species. I've been planting several species of oak every few years. My hope is they will spread over the years.

Excellent video. Thanks for the education and I think your recommendations related to white oak and its regeneration are right on.

Great video very informative

I see your little beagle at the end there! Was wondering where he was this time!

Don’t leave young saplings unprotected,they will get eaten by rabbits and deers because it’s leaves have a sweet taste so put a little fence around them for about 20 years.

Excellent presentation

Thanks dude!

I found a 5 foot oak under a bunch of japanese honeysuckle vines, horrible plants smothering small trees, I freed the oak I dont know how long it was under there but I expect next year it will finally grow into a large tree with rapid growth has full sunshine too, hope it shades out all the japanese honeysuckles

I have a couple bags of white/swamp white oak acorns in stratification now. Hopefully I can protect them from predation this spring and have at least a handful of seedlings make it.

Great video and agree with everything he said.

This is the most underrated band ever! I saw these guys in Pamona back in ‘68. Those were good times. Today’s music can’t hold a candle to the bands from the 60’s. Every time I hear this song I think of my father. I miss him terribly. Peace to all.

Knower of Oak

I’ve noticed there’s different phenotypes of white oak, that look a lot like burr oak. Leaves with small lobes, very furrowed bark with deep ridges. They can be tricky. This tree is an example of classic white oak.

That looks like a beautifully large Kalmia latifolia begins you in this video!

Deer like White Oak acorns.

Im a hobbyist woodworker I'm building a new bed. For my wife and I out of quarter sawn white oak. 15$ a board foot in my area. Walnut and Quarter sawn white oak are the big hitters in bespoke furniture.

We don't have white oak here in California (I think), but we have magnificent valley oaks which I believe are related.

I found a couple of whites that grow huge acorns- like quarter sized n with the caps on canb as big as a ping pong ball. Said to b a burr variety but haven’t seen any other comparable in size. I have a few of them which r starting to produce acorns but have to fight off squirrels but they r the big ones. Really would like to know what it is that/why the acorns are so big/ huge almost walnut sized??

Whiskey? Bourbon. There’s about 11.5 million barrels of bourbon compared to 4.5 million people in KY. That industry needs all the white oak it can get.

I have a large Red oak near my house ,looks healty ,maybe 80 years old???

Does black truffle grow under white oaks

I wished i could post pic of mine here

Pls do a video of all the different white and red oaks in the eastern United States.

YOU have a warty cap!

Great video, I feel like I should join a class! I just purchased a Mexican White Oak for Zone 7 and wanted to find information on this. Is this information relevant as well to that tree?

Do white oak grow in Wyoming?

Someone please help, I have a family treasure red oak maybe 150 years old and straight and beautiful directly in the front of my walkway, brilliant….. my dilemma, although the tree acts and looks healthy there’s a lot of ant climbing and for the past couple of years, a giant chicken of the woods mushroom by it base. My wife had used wood chips at base…. I’ve heard that the delicacy mushroom means my tree is dying; please someone help with info, please!!!

I just got into home brewing , I think I found a white oak the other day that I can get some wood off for ageing alcohol

The genus Quercus (Oaks) only has one subgenus in the western hemisphere, also name Quercus. The Quercus subgenus is divided into sections, the vastly predominant sections in the western hemisphere are section Quercus (White Oaks) and section Lobatae (red oaks) Yes, it's Quercus quercus quercus (Genus subgenus section), rediculous.

Can someone please answer me this burning question? Can a white oak tree be (imported and) grown in Ireland? Thanks in advance!

its hard to tell a english oak apart from a white oak, or can someone explain the difference?

مرحبا. هل تصبح الجوزة شجرة كبيرة بعد ١٠ سنوات؟

Is there any veracity to the assumption that oaks make more acorns when a hard winter is predicted?

Which side of the tree does white oak bark usually peel from?

Thank you for your help sir . I'm from Oklahoma 32 and 3rd Gen owner of the very ground my pa cleared 40 archers with an axe and a pick all by hand power but I still have a lot of wood so I'm trying to do right by my pa . 11 walnuts as well but pa told me they ain't to be touched unless a emergency cuz one could pay taxes and if there still standing he said he can die happy knowing his grand kids and great grand kids will always have a home so that's how I intend to leave it . But if there's a giant white oak it's worth way more as a log than wait for it to die and burn it for heat so mutch abliged to yasir

Hey I really liked this video and I am currently on a wildlife team for my school and I am studying these trees and I would like for you to do a video on post oaks

comments allowed on an educational dendrology video? 😛 please use comments responsibly lol jk. nice video

You didn't mention insect predation like spongy moths (gypsy moths). I just lost two large white oaks to them. If you've never experienced a spongy month invasion I can tell you it is truly Biblical in scope. They are HORRIBLE.