Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Need help...I would like to grow various oak/maple seedlings, 2 by shortleaf

shortleaf wrote:
I'd go down to a park down there this Fall on vacation and collect shovel fulls of acorns from all the Oak trees you can find. I'd be sure to get some Live Oak acorns for there. The evergreen Live Oak tree would be a bonus if I lived there. I've never been to City Park in New Orleans, La. but I hear the Live Oaks there are glorious!

I'd second the state nursery but not from Illinois, Miss. I'd recommend ours but only for people here. But this is what Mississippi's should be something like. - http://extra.mdc.mo.gov/cgi-bin/mdcdevpub/apps/seedlings/sea...
Ours doesn't start until Nov. 1st but you can't beat the prices and the provenance of a state nursery. I once helped a guy plant 6,000 seedlings from the state nursery here on his 23 acres.

After Bing searching a Miss state nursery, I'm not sure if they have that program, if they do I can't find it I found this but I don't think that is it. - .http://www.mfc.ms.gov/seedling-vendors.php There might be some links there or information you can use though.

Yeah, Longleaf Pine is neat, I wish I could grow it.

I wouldn't grow anything in northern Ill. and take it down there though, yeah waste of effort and time. I'd buy mass seedlings from a neighboring state nursery down there before I'd buy from Arbor Day (in Nebraska) for that. I've been to Arbor Day headquarters, it's in Nebraska City, Nebraska.

This article is over 12 years old but maybe they are still there. - http://deltafarmpress.com/management/tree-seedlings-availabl...
You might also see if you can rent a "seedling planter", it's usually pulled behind a tractor, it is itself manned by a second person to put each seedling in a "hole" made by the planter's disk's and such. I was the planter-man when I did it before. Planting that many by hand would take a couple of weeks, a tree planter does it in about 2 days. Here I am (in the green) in one when I did it. Just a guess but 10 acres sounds like about 1,000 to 2,000 seedlings to me.
Be sure to drive in zig zags so they don't look like rows of trees in a tree farm later. Missouri had the seedlings and the seedling planter and everything we needed for the landowner here though (tractor not included..lol).
Will