Fertilizer question - milo

[Daver]

I had about 5 acres of milo planted right around Memorial Day and some came in pretty good and some didn't. (The story of my food plotting life. )

Where it came in decent and was looking good for a month or so, it now looks a little lighter shade of green than what would be optimal. Can I walk the rows and effectively broadcast N/fertilizer and have that work to give the fields a boost at this stage? Will the granules make it to the ground in sufficient quantity to make it worth while? Will the N burn the plant/leaves and be counterproductive?

I have LOTS of quail and good numbers of pheasants too, so I want to max out these milo plots so little birdy friends have a good place for the winter...please help?

 

[Sligh1]

Daver - what I'd do at your stage, if you want me to make this simple.... Get some lawn fertilizer. (you could do treated urea with Agritain or Nitrain). It's a little less potent (24%?) so you'll need a bit more and more expensive but will be the easiest to go out and find & pick up and it shouldn't burn the crap out of your plants. It's slow release which is the key in your situation & it should get enough N into the soil quick enough to help it out. That's what I'd do at this point if it were mine.

 

[10hunter]

n application

Is the milo heading out yet and still putting on grain? will it rain to put the N in the root zone? those would be the questions...if it is not complete setting seed and we have rain coming dropping urea could definitely help. There is some coatings that can help reduce urea loss until it rains that you may want to ask about when you buy your urea. Otherwise, there is some foliar liquid products that may give it a boost depending on how deficient it might be? Good luck.