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Has anyone else noticed zero beech mast (nuts) this year?

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Baggs Sat 12-Oct-24 12:47:55

PS No hazelnuts I can see on our trees this year and a friend says their garden produce has been poor this year, especially fruit.

Baggs Sat 12-Oct-24 12:46:22

It must fill a good deal of your small garden, witz! The mature beech trees near us are absolutely gigantic!

I'll go and check them out sometime. What I have noticed this years is tonnages of sycamore mast. Even in an ordinary year there's a lot but this year is extraordinary.

I suppose trees do have mast producing cycles. I wonder if their production follows a Normal Distribution" curve over a number of years?

RosiesMaw2 Sat 12-Oct-24 12:37:47

No I do see them around where I live and Rosie has more than once limped home with a shell caught in her pads.

tanith Sat 12-Oct-24 12:32:34

I looked for acorns in my local park the other day there were none on the trees or on the floor I was a bit puzzled.

JaneJudge Sat 12-Oct-24 12:27:32

It is a strange year isn't it, growth wise? the squirrels have myxomatosis too sad

winterwhite Sat 12-Oct-24 12:18:25

Not beech nuts, but no conkers😖

Witzend Sat 12-Oct-24 12:16:04

We have a mature beech tree in our small garden, and for as long as I can remember, the grass would have been littered by now with shells dropped by squirrels and parakeets.

None this year, and I’ve noticed the same in our nearby large park, where there are a lot of mature beech trees - usually filled in early autumn with a lot of noisy parakeets scoffing them.

Similar elsewhere, or just a local thing?