Does rain sour acorns really?

[coop2564]

I have always heard rain will sour acorns to where deer will not eat them. However I have heard a lot of things that are not true. I have seen deer eating acorns all the way into early march on golf courses, obviously these have been rained on. So any biologist or anybody no for sure? Goggling it nothing comes up but hunters talking about no hard evidence.

[Rudey]

I think it's all just false information passed down from generation to generation.

[LeanMachine]

somethin rots em! The ones that don't rot may be in areas w good unoff

[passing thru]

somethin rots em! The ones that don't rot may be in areas w good unoff

Bugs will make them rot, but they smile at rain.

[PEC]

After they drop heavy rains and a soggy ground will make them rot(sour) faster.

[Rudey]

They will sit in/on the ground until the following spring and then sprout. That's how nature works. They are designed not to rot at least until spring warmup.

[WCB]

Some will rot, some will get worms, some will get eaten and a very few will last to grow a new tree. Otherwise we would have more trees than we could handle...

Now since we are talking about acorns, what kind of friggin gigantor acorn is this???

[Yakfishin]

Standing water will

[WCB]

it would have been better this way...

[Rudey]

White Oak acorn?!? Dunno...

[WCB]

All I know is that it's a big mother...
I'm sure they are elsewhere but "I" have only seen them at Hagerman.

[SKLOSS]

I'm going to say that is a bur oak acorn

[18ncs]

it would have been better this way...

May be an Overcup. I think there is another oak that I have seen drop acorns that big.

I always thought if you got a good rain/flood and then a hard freeze the deer did not eat acorns as much. We called it going sour. I have tasted fresh acorns but not sour.

[passing thru]

I'm going to say that is a bur oak acorn

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[18ncs]

Believe it is a Bur. Also called a Mossy Cup oak

That's a meal