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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: JohnMark]
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08/27/19 07:13 PM
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Yep - good advice from Remington270 and stl32.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: JohnMark]
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08/28/19 11:20 AM
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Plant the 3rd week of September and it'll be up by the 15th of October . It'll be growing good and be tender, they won't be able to stay away.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: dirkdaddy]
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08/28/19 04:10 PM
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Seed more than is necessary. I agree with this The recommended rates are usually low because you'll sell more bags of seed if people think you only need two bags to an acre versus 3 or 4. This part doesn't make sense to me. Seems like they'd sell more seed if they recommended more pounds per acre.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: dirkdaddy]
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08/28/19 04:31 PM
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Thanks for the replies everyone. We're well within the pocket of deer planting time. If you can go do it this weekend that would be just as good as doing it in two or three weeks. Don't try to plan around rain, just do it when you can. Seed more than is necessary. The recommended rates are usually low because you'll sell more bags of seed if people think you only need two bags to an acre versus 3 or 4.
Just based on historical weather data your better off planting in September if you want rain versus October. October is our driest month of the year. I've never been a big believer in army worms taking down deer plots unless you are planting near a pasture or active ag fields, that may be a different situation. I was about to put off planting, but you’re post bumped me back to this weekend. I’m planting real world wildlife clover and chicory blend and some elbon rye to help fill it out. This plot is in the woods. Also, another question related to this: I plan to put a spin cast feeder on this area also. Should I put it out this weekend when I plant or wait a few weeks? I didn’t know if this would effect the planting (extra animal traffic). The area gets some deer traffic now with natural browse- but I killed that off with some gly 2 weeks ago.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: JohnMark]
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09/05/19 02:05 PM
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We try to wait until the end of September. This heat and dry weather will burn it up quick.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: JohnMark]
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09/05/19 08:33 PM
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Last week end in September or first week end in October. Deer are almost always on them opening day of bow season
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: JohnMark]
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09/05/19 08:42 PM
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Planting without rain is like a drug dealer with no drugs. I have no use for it
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: JohnMark]
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09/06/19 10:58 AM
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Way too early to be planting now. Wait until early/mid October.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: Out back]
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09/06/19 11:12 AM
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Way too early to be planting now. Wait until early/mid October. Yep. A lot of folks get antsy to plant starting at Labor Day. These are the hottest and driest weeks of the year.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: blumsden]
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09/06/19 02:00 PM
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Actually, October is the driest month of the year in Alabama. I'm doubting that. I would need to see statistics. In my opinion the driest month is typically June or July. But either way, September is too early for food plots. October is the best time to plant. No question.
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Re: Planting without rain?
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09/06/19 02:23 PM
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Actually, October is the driest month of the year in Alabama. Right, but September is very dry too. And much hotter. So why expose your plot to the 2 driest months of the year? I’ll keep my seed in the bag for a few more weeks.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: JohnMark]
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09/08/19 07:16 AM
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Looking at the long range till the end of Oct, there's going to be a lot planting done in dry dirt. We may be wanting a mild TD in a month or so. Sure not going to be a wet fall like it's been the last couple years. I have a couple mud holes that are dry for the first time since 2016.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: JohnMark]
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09/08/19 07:21 AM
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Be fine if it stays dry til November. Get this crop out. Feeders don’t need rain
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Planting without rain?
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09/08/19 07:34 AM
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Actually, October is the driest month of the year in Alabama. I'm doubting that. I would need to see statistics. In my opinion the driest month is typically June or July. But either way, September is too early for food plots. October is the best time to plant. No question. In NE Bama September and October are the driest months , I'm confident records will back it up.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: Remington270]
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09/08/19 11:52 AM
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The records do back it up. Sept/Oct are the driest, on average. Certainly looking that way again this year. September's sure living up to that reputation so far.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: Out back]
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09/09/19 10:37 PM
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Actually, October is the driest month of the year in Alabama. I'm doubting that. I would need to see statistics. In my opinion the driest month is typically June or July. But either way, September is too early for food plots. October is the best time to plant. No question. October is the driest month according to data. Average is barely over 2” the entire month. September is almost double that. That may not run true every year but it is a fact.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: dirkdaddy]
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09/11/19 08:55 AM
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Rain chances going up next week. I'm getting seed in Friday on a plot or two if I can and cross my fingers. They are. Still way too far out though. I'll believe it when I see it.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: JohnMark]
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09/11/19 09:02 AM
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I’d rather plant into moisture than bet on planting based on what wather guesser says might happen
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: 257wbymag]
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09/11/19 09:07 AM
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I’d rather plant into moisture than bet on planting based on what wather guesser says might happen And based on the other threads on here, I'm guessing that rain is based of a weather man's spitball guess on that storm coming into the southeast and Alabama and not heading further east.
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Re: Planting without rain?
[Re: JohnMark]
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09/18/19 10:27 PM
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As hot as it is now, there is no rush. But with that said, I am Expecting on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the first week of October. We plan to start turning some dirt on Monday and planting fri and sat.
My brother-n-law used to insist we always planted on Labor Day weekend. After watching army worms destroy our plots for about three years in a row, he finally decided in might be a good idea to wait a few weeks.
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