My experiment!!

As y’all know, I rebuilt the JD 7100 2 row planter and put the new precision plantings corn meters on it. One day just for chits and giggles I put some snap bean seems in it to see if ithe finger pick ups would grab them and would drop them. To my surprise, it dropped them just like the corn. I decided to try to plant some Cherokee yellow wax beans with it. I’d say it was a success. The spacing is a little closer then I’d like and there is a couple skips but I’m very happy the way it turned out. The corn also is coming up and it looks like it did a great job on them also. I’ll get a picture of it when the corn gets big enough to show on camera. Also I’ve lighted up the down pressure on the closing wheels. Worked a lot better on the second planting of corn.

looks great!

Wax beans are growing great.

Sweet corn is coming along nicely also.

Very impressive!!!

You know you're my hero, right? Man that looks good

Beans look good do you remember what sprocket combo you used on the driver and driven chains? Ive got some bean cups for my planter but theyre not precise, more like a controlled spill. Might try a few rows with my corn meters.

I will go check in a little bit and let you know.

26 on the drive. 28 driven. Gives my planter about an 8” seeds spacing.

Thanks! Going to give it a shot and see! Can’t do no worse!

Looking good fur. Currently waiting on a new seed plate to ship so I can get some corn planted.

Hey Marsh, do you water your corn with soaker hoses? If so, how often do you water each row?

I usually lay out drip tape on each row and water every other day when it’s really dry. However that’s not the issue this spring. Good grief the rain we have been getting. We are up to around 5” since Tuesday. The corn is loving it. I hit it with a good shot of nitrogen before the rain Tuesday and man did it jump.

We haven't had considerable rain in at least 3 weeks down here. Been having to water mine and it's county water 😳

And how long do you keep the water on every other day?

Usually a couple hours. Depends on how much it dries from previous watering. The outside water is still supplied by the well. When I have multiple patches, I’ll alternate days that I water. Haven’t had any issues doing it that way.

Where do you get your drip tape? You use 8mil and throw it away each year?

DripDepot.com