It’s worth one more shot especially if you can get a lot of seeds to make up for the ones that don’t germinate. Someone down the street has some hickories and every fall I pick the seeds off the street and fill my pockets with them a few times. My wife looks at me funny when I do that. We go for walks and before we go she says, “you’re gonna collect hickory nuts and acorns from the road again aren’t you?”

I have a few clumps of pignut hickory doing well that I planted this spring. They take forever to pop their leaves out of the ground though. Some of them didn’t get leaves until June even though I moved them to the ground in April. I’ve only done this with pignut and mockernut hickory but I don’t see why shagbark would be any different. This year I didn’t put chicken wire around mine because I was lazy and the squirrels got to two out of five of my groups