Dukslayr
5 year old buck +
First off, thank you to everyone who has helped answer my non stop questions about sunflowers and various herbicides. I finally have the space to plant a sunflower patch for a dove field (or so I hope). I got between 5-6 acres of sunflowers planted and it’s been a roller coaster ride. Long story short the weather killed my ability to get the sunflowers planted in May when I would have liked. Ended up no-till drilling them straight into an old mowed field that’s likely never been tilled in June 6th. We sprayed about a week later (pre emergence) with gly but I held off on the dual since we were so close to emergence by the time of spraying. Needless the say the first few weeks I wasn’t too excited about the results. Last weekend I noticed they were starting to do a little better with the warm weather we have been having. This weekend I was really happy with the leap they made from last week to this week. I’ve now got Imox and Nitro Surf ready for the spray rig and hoping on round of spray with knock back back the grass and weeds and let the sunflowers take over. I’m glad to see that they’re mostly staying ahead of the deer so far...which was a main concern of mine with our relatively high deer density.
This picture was either a week or week and a half ago.
This picture was from yesterday. A huge leap from around a week or week and a half ago. Just need a spraying and a little timely rain now.
This picture was either a week or week and a half ago.
This picture was from yesterday. A huge leap from around a week or week and a half ago. Just need a spraying and a little timely rain now.