aesculus californica 2017

I've set them out on the garage roof this year as last year I watched the squirrels carry them away one by one from pots under the back porch. The squirrels had never shown any interest in them before. These were harvested from the mother tree at Devil's Gulch, the main source for most of my buckeyes. Hoping the rain will give them a good start. I used to bury them, but realized they fall to the ground and sprout so perhaps just placing in the pots may be a better method.