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Topic: AC pumpkin planter!

Posted By: KY
Subject: AC pumpkin planter!
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 8:12pm

Have any of y'all ever tried to plant pumpkins with a plate type AC corn planter??? If so which plate did ya use? Soybean plate? Thanks

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Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 8:26pm

Even with the plates slowed down as far as you can, wouldn't the plant density be too high?

Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 8:30pm

You could fill in the extra openings to every other one or every third one or even fourth. Then pull it across some pavement and measure the drop rate.

Posted By: tbran
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 8:48pm

call Lincoln Ag Products sales@lincolnagproducts.com

They have the plates and adaptors if you don't have them.

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Posted By: AMB(wcIL)
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 10:07pm

JD has a pumpkin plate that will work, still available threw parts. But yes you can take a corn plate and fill all the cells but 2 or 3 spaced out. Then grind the cells a little longer to fit a pumpkin seed. Andy

Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 11:13pm

I used to use a jd planter for pumpkins before I got my vacuum planter. I got some steel blanks either from the jd dealer or Lincoln, don't remember now. Ground out slots for different size seeds on different plates. Changing the sprockets got it turning slow enough to plant on 30" - 36" spacing.

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Posted By: Mikez
Date Posted: 13 Mar 2017 at 11:33pm

I always wanted to try to set up planer for pumpkins.
We are just using our old new idea transplanter and dropping seed into the opening, works good

Posted By: KY
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2017 at 6:57pm

Ok thanks for the info!!! I'll let y'all know how it goes!!

Posted By: KY
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2017 at 6:59pm

Yes that's what I'm afraid of. Even with a 20 cell bean plate and as slow as it will plant it is pretty heavy!

Posted By: Stan R
Date Posted: 14 Mar 2017 at 7:39pm

How many acres are you planning on planting?