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loneranger

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Here is a question: It seems my turnip and radish are not growing a quickly as usual. Plenty of moisture. Could it be due to the cooler temps lately? How do cooler temps affect growth with these? Do they require heat or do they like cooler temps?
 
As big as their leaves get, that tells me they like a lot of sun/heat/moisture. I don't think these coolers temps will set them back much. Still got a lot of time before first hard frost.... hopefully.
 
How much nitrogen did you apply when you planted them? How wet was your soil at planting? Those would be the two factors that I would think of first.

To date this year, we planted some brassicas on 7/25, some on 8/8 and some on 8/15.

On 8/15, the 7/25 planting was looking fair to good, even though sowing conditions on 7/25 were very wet and definitely sub-optimal. Also, on 8/15, the 8/8 planting had emerged and was looking pretty good for having been planted for only a week. The 8/8 planting was a much drier seed bed and close to optimal sowing conditions, so I anticipated seeing the good germination that I saw.
 
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Here is my growth from the 8/8 planting. Any input on this would be greatly appreciated.
 
Yea that looks pretty wet there. My spots are taking off now. I expect we have a lot of warm weather left alright. First yr out here from MI, we had frost second week of Sept. Never repeated that again though. Like last fewyrs hard to get any frost even up to the end of Oct! But,,who knows. I was just curious as to what the plants like,,hot or cool weather..
 
DeerHunter3 said:
Here is my growth from the 8/8 planting. Any input on this would be greatly appreciated.
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Not to be persnickety...but it looks like you are a little over-seeded in the middle section and a little light around it. However, given that you still are showing standing water in the pic...I think you are about as good as you are going to get there.

It is way easy to get too thick with brassicas...and then you end with many smaller, stunted plants. Not a total washout, but hard to get optimal forage poundage that way. If that wet area dries, IMO it isn't too late to sprinkle a little seed there to try to fill in your weak areas.

But don't take it too hard, you have something to show and the deer will use what you have.
 
Daver said:
Not to be persnickety...but it looks like you are a little over-seeded in the middle section and a little light around it. However, given that you still are showing standing water in the pic...I think you are about as good as you are going to get there.

It is way easy to get too thick with brassicas...and then you end with many smaller, stunted plants. Not a total washout, but hard to get optimal forage poundage that way. If that wet area dries, IMO it isn't too late to sprinkle a little seed there to try to fill in your weak areas.

But don't take it too hard, you have something to show and the deer will use what you have.
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This was my second planting this year after the drowned out. I went a little heavy on seed the second go around since I had poor germination. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. Not all areas in the plot are as thick as the picture above so I am going to hope for the best.

In your opinion will these plants put on any kind of size?
 
DeerHunter3 said:
This was my second planting this year after the drowned out. I went a little heavy on seed the second go around since I had poor germination. It will be interesting to see how this turns out. Not all areas in the plot are as thick as the picture above so I am going to hope for the best.

In your opinion will these plants put on any kind of size?
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A foodplot for deer does not have to be perfect, and many of them are not for all kinds of reasons, for it still to be a benefit to our four legged friends. I would rate what I saw in your pic as "fair to good". I think you will be OK, not great, not terrible.

Those plants will grow and produce, but I think you will see some stunted bulb growth in the heavy section. You could give that plot a nice boost if you spread some N(urea) just ahead of a rain OR use a slow release fertilizer. But even if you don't do that, you will still have something worthwhile there.
 
So here is some of my growth...these both were planted 8/1...one field was definitely more wet than the other.... First field is in a well draining bottom...you can see that some of the field has not grown well but that is due to because of where the water drains but I think it has great growth and should produce some wonderful food
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Now my second plot is not nearly as impressive...soil was very wet when planted, it was late in the evening when we're done and there were a lot of silver bullets being had that day...also this was a harvest oat field and I believe that when I spread my urea a lot of the volunteer oats stole the nutrients...I have since killed all the oats with clethidom and I think they are responding well...some look great and others look very small but should will make some food...
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Both of these plots are going to get rye oats and pease along side them...so overall I should have a lot of food....but I would say with the amount of moisture we have had the growth might be a little slower than one would think of some of the fields
 
Lucky13 said:
Now my second plot is not nearly as impressive...soil was very wet when planted, it was late in the evening when we're done and there were a lot of silver bullets being had that day...also this was a harvest oat field and I believe that when I spread my urea a lot of the volunteer oats stole the nutrients...I have since killed all the oats with clethidom and I think they are responding well...some look great and others look very small but should will make some food...
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Both of these plots are going to get rye oats and pease along side them...so overall I should have a lot of food....but I would say with the amount of moisture we have had the growth might be a little slower than one would think of some of the fields
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Doesn't look like any weed competition in the second plot, looks good.
 
Lucky13 said:
Now my second plot is not nearly as impressive...soil was very wet when planted, it was late in the evening when we're done and there were a lot of silver bullets being had that day...also this was a harvest oat field and I believe that when I spread my urea a lot of the volunteer oats stole the nutrients...I have since killed all the oats with clethidom and I think they are responding well...some look great and others look very small but should will make some food...
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Both of these plots are going to get rye oats and pease along side them...so overall I should have a lot of food....but I would say with the amount of moisture we have had the growth might be a little slower than one would think of some of the fields
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It seems like our plots look pretty similar as far as germination being thick and thin in some places. Your plots are definitely looking better as far as weed control. I always enjoy seeing comparisons to give me an idea on how things should look. Hopefully they keep growing away!

Thanks for sharing
 
This year was my first attempt and I'll say mine looked a lot like that top pic. Soil was pretty damp when I disced it. I ran cultipacker to smooth it out but it filled up with mud so I just broadcast seed on the damp soil and called it good.

First couple of weeks it looked like that pic. Last week I had to go out of town for 3 days for work. On the first day we got a lot of rain. When I got back I could see a noticeable improvement in growth.

I will say I have an area where I didn't have the seed hopper set small enough initially and put the seed out pretty thick. That area looks great now but I'm hoping it doesn't stunt out too bad. I think the other areas should be good.

Planning on planting the rye mix next week. Hopefully we get the right weather conditions.
 
I'll take some pics of brassicas next week and see what you guys think.

When I planted I used 13-13-13 fertilizer. Will try and spread some 46-0-0 next week to give it a boost.
 
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