Advice on planting sunflowers?
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Topic: Advice on planting sunflowers?
Posted By: Dave in il
Subject: Advice on planting sunflowers?
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2016 at 9:40am
I have a 4 row 30" 333 planter with 74 row units. I've only used it for replanting ponds and such. I'm going to put in 3 acres of sunflowers for doves and I was wondering if anyone has some advice on plates to use, population, planting depth and so on. I use JD plates. I will be planting in clean tilled soil. Planning on putting them in between May one and the 15th.
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Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2016 at 9:50am
I don't know how they did it, but when I lived in Oregon sunflowers were always planted in a way that had the heads facing south. :)
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Posted By: KenBWisc
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2016 at 9:56am
Don't!! Too many "fond" memories walking beans and corn cutting them out of the crop.
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'34 WC #629, '49 G, '49 B, '49 WD, '62 D-19, '38 All Crop 60 and still hunting!
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Posted By: jiminnd
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2016 at 10:44am
Used to raise sunflower, pop about 20,000 or there, it will definatly attracked birds, that is why we quit, would lose half the crop to the birds, the sunflower head will follow the movement of the sun, watch in the am and again in pm and you can see how they follow the sun.
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1945 C, 1949 WF and WD, 1981 185, 1982 8030, unknown D14(nonrunner)
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Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2016 at 12:23pm
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follow Kens advice-- they should be listed as a noxious weed here.
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Posted By: Bill (E.C.MO)
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2016 at 1:00pm
Dave,
It's hard to specify a plate because the size of seed varies so much. I borrow my neighbor's 6-row DA 385 and can usually find a "corn" plate in his assortment that "fits" the whatever variety I'm planting that year. Sunflower seems to be pretty tolerant of any depth between an inch or two. Re: population, for a dove field it's not critical for yield, per se. What's critical is canopy to keep the weeds out and enough plants to feed the deer and still have some left to attract doves. Here locally, deer are thick like flies. I'm going to experiment this year by no-till drilling into stubble. Especially in a small field, deer will savage the young plants it they're easy to nibble on.
The big challenge with a dove field is keeping it clean so there's seed on bare ground when you begin to mow them starting mid-August. An early maturing variety planted by Mother's Day is usually dried down well enough by then.
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A-C's currently on the farm: B, CA, 2 D-17 D's, One Eighty, ass't implements.
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Posted By: Charlie175
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2016 at 1:31pm
Local farmer planted about a 30 acre field with sunflowers. He was interviewed and said he would never do it again as he had too many people coming on his property to take pictures with them.
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Charlie
'48 B, '51 CA, '56 WD45 '61 D17, '63 D12, '65 D10 , '68 One-Ninety XTD
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Posted By: A-C 608 ltd
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2016 at 4:02pm
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I've been planting them in my garden for 6 years now. I plant at a depth of 3/4".
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