There's none of that business up by me anymore this year. I'm expecting to see our low temps starting to break into the 40s soon. It's peak cereal growing weather right now by me. I ran some GDD numbers just now, and I may have hit it just perfectly this year. That is of course if we get normal temps. If it's 70/50 In November instead of 40/20 that all goes out the window.Just because it germinates doesnt mean it will grow. Wheat or rye at that stage in 90 degree weather and no rain for two weeks is a gonner.
Just because it germinates doesnt mean it will grow. Wheat or rye at that stage in 90 degree weather and no rain for two weeks is a gonner.
There's none of that business up by me anymore this year. I'm expecting to see our low temps starting to break into the 40s soon. It's peak cereal growing weather right now by me. I ran some GDD numbers just now, and I may have hit it just perfectly this year. That is of course if we get normal temps. If it's 70/50 In November instead of 40/20 that all goes out the window.
There's a nifty calculator if you wanna work your cereals planting date backwards.
Growing Degree Days | GreenCast | Syngenta
www.greencastonline.com
You can look up last year's heat units as a guide to what may happen this year. Not perfect, but it'll get ya close. I ran the 2021 dates of August 5th - September 30th, and then counted the units. I think I came up with around 1700. I don't know what the heat units are for my forage cereal, so I'm winging it. I'm using spring wheat as a guide, and assuming mine is about 10-20% longer than spring wheat. I'm aiming for at least 1400, 1700 would be perfect, and if I shoot all the way off the end, I'll still have something.I don’t get it. The tool that is
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My heavy clay soil destroys winter rye plantings. Sure it will germinate but if those tender new roots don’t find moisture it will not survive let alone thrive. I put down a few hundred pounds 5 days ago because we had rain in the forecast for 4 days. We received the rain but nothing in the forecast for almost 10 days with 90 degree highs in the forecast. I can all but guarantee none of that rye will survive. My soil flat out sucks and makes me want to stop habitat work all together. I drilled the rye and it still more likely than not won’t make it.
Looks like Bob was wishing it was catnip..I was rag doll testing some of my winter wheat from the day I mowed it a couple weeks back. I forgot it on my coffee table for a week at the cabin. I came back 5 days later and found this. No sun or soil, just the bag and paper towel. I think I'm gonna have some volunteer wheat. It went 23 for 25.
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August seems extremely late or early depending on if this was meant to be a spring of fall planting?? Why did you choose to plant in August?I planted rye last August, it came up, and then no rain for 2 months, and it died and never came up, so I do understand. This spring my plots were all weeds. It was the first year I had to spray, and lightly disc since about 3- 5 years ago.
Yeah, he shot right over to that when we got there. There was a leaf sticking out of the bag and he gobbled it right up.Looks like Bob was wishing it was catnip..