ACORNS
Oak trees can start producing acorns when they are 20 years old,
but sometimes can go all the way to 50 years for the first
production. By the time the tree is 70 to 80 years old it will
produce thousands of acorns.
In a good year the oak tree will have many flowers -- up to several
thousand. With the right humidity, the right temperature, no late
frost in the spring, and sufficient rainfall in the summer, tiny
scale-covered acorns (called nubbins at that point) begin to grow.
They will mature to become full grown and ripe acorns by late
summer. The chances of one acorn making it to become an oak tree
are very slim -- less than 1/10,000. That means that for every
10,000 acorns, only one will become a tree!
The Oak tree near this cache must be over 70 years
old. You will be
able to find hundreds of acorns… but will you find the
cache??