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Re: Sesame [Re: poorcountrypreacher] #3684701
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Originally Posted by poorcountrypreacher


The fields look pretty good 5 weeks after planting. The field my uncle and I planted has gotten several good rains and is doing really well. The other field I planted had some soil moisture when I planted, so some came up and some didn't. Then it went 3 weeks without a drop of rain and after that got several inches in one day. The diuron requires rain to activate, so I didn't get good weed control. Now we are back to drought, with no rain in sight.

It still oughta make some dove food if it will ever rain.


I planted mine last week mr. Steve. Soil was fairly moist, but no rain on it yet. We’ll see


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Here's a picture for anyone interested in Sesame. This is 49 days after planting, and it had only one rain. I'm very surprised that it looks as good as it does. I have read that sesame is very drought resistant, so that idea is definitely being tested. One of the things I wondered about was how well the sesame would shade the ground and block out the weeds once it was up and growing. It seems to be doing that very well. There is a little johnsongrass in it, but I don't think it will reduce the yield a lot.

The Egyptian wheat is still getting taller and hasn't produced any seed heads. The dove magnet mix that has several different types of millet has already produced a lot of seed. I just need it to rain. My uncle's field continues to get rain and looks much better.

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Re: Sesame [Re: poorcountrypreacher] #3693602
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I went and looked at my sesame this morning Mr. Steve. Looks like it just sprouted and is about 3/4” tall


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Originally Posted by TurkeyJoe
I went and looked at my sesame this morning Mr. Steve. Looks like it just sprouted and is about 3/4” tall



I sure hope you get more rain than I have. After another week of 100 degree heat and no rain, the plants are close to death. I don't think I've ever seen it this dry this early in the year.

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We got a good one yesterday evening


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My friend who owns the field just text and said they got 2” yesterday. Hopefully it wasn’t too late


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Re: Sesame [Re: poorcountrypreacher] #3699385
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We planted the wms dove magnet with the sesame in it this year. The sesame is really doing good. Our field is looking great. Sunflowers started opening today and we got an inch of rain this afternoon. The only thing I haven’t noticed is the grain sorghum but I’m sure it’s out there somewhere

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I've finally gotten some rain, but haven't been able to check the field. It will be interesting to see if it has recovered.


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[img]https://imgur.com/a/R0YwTQt[/img]
Sesame we planted in the dove magnet mix on 5/1. Not sure how to get the pic to show up.

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Amazing what a little rain will do:


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The Dove Magnet mix has already made a good crop, and the sesame looks like it still has a chance to make one. Just need a few more rains. There are some millets in the dove magnet that I've never grown before, but they have made an impressive amount of seed.


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Originally Posted by halljb2
[img]https://imgur.com/a/R0YwTQt[/img]
Sesame we planted in the dove magnet mix on 5/1. Not sure how to get the pic to show up.



Looks really good! Is that Pearl millet that has made so much? Mine has produced a lot of those seedheads too, and each one has a bunch of seed in it. If I don't get any doves from this field I am giving up on them


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I think that is the German foxtail with the large heads on it. There was also dove proso and white proso in the mix. I’m very impressed with how everything has turned out. Most of the sunflowers are open now too. I broke one of the seed pods open on the sesame and there were hundreds of seeds in it. I feel the same way, if the doves don’t come to this field then they just aren’t around.

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Originally Posted by halljb2
I think that is the German foxtail with the large heads on it. There was also dove proso and white proso in the mix. I’m very impressed with how everything has turned out. Most of the sunflowers are open now too. I broke one of the seed pods open on the sesame and there were hundreds of seeds in it. I feel the same way, if the doves don’t come to this field then they just aren’t around.



I think you are right; I've never grown either before. I meant to save the tag that listed all the different plants in that mix, but I seem to have lost it. The tag didn't match what their website said; they may vary it depending on what they can get. I have grown proso before, but there is a plant in the mix that has a much taller stalk than what I grew in the past. That proso looked very similar to browntop.

Edit: I did a little research and the taller stalk millet is White Proso.

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Re: Sesame [Re: halljb2] #3713599
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Originally Posted by halljb2
We planted the wms dove magnet with the sesame in it this year. The sesame is really doing good. Our field is looking great. Sunflowers started opening today and we got an inch of rain this afternoon. The only thing I haven’t noticed is the grain sorghum but I’m sure it’s out there somewhere


The dove magnet has really made a lot of seed, and should start to dry out with the hot weather expected next week. It's interesting that you have sunflowers with no grain sorghum; mine is just the opposite with a lot of heads of sorghum and not a single sunflower. I have never been able to make sunflowers on this place. The deer usually eat them as soon as they come up, but I don't know if that is what happened here.

For anyone interested in Sesame, it is still blooming and the plants are still growing and adding pods. Some of the plants already have over 50 pods. I cut a pod open and it looks like there's over 100 seed in each. The seed are bigger than millet and I can see why doves would like them.

My biggest concern goes back to what several of you warned about from the start - will the seed ever be available for the doves? I would think it's going to require the plants being very dry and then slowly going over them with the bush hog, but even then I wonder how well the seed will scatter. Anyone got any advice on that?

I will let most of it stand until the second season if it will. It should be interesting to see what it does and how the wildlife deals with it.

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At seed maturity could you spray a defoliation herbicide or just gly? Seems if you had a dead plant and then bush hogged it would help disperse the seed. I’ve heard folks bush hog then burn to get the residue out of the field and the seeds stay intact.

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Originally Posted by YellaLineHunter
At seed maturity could you spray a defoliation herbicide or just gly? Seems if you had a dead plant and then bush hogged it would help disperse the seed. I’ve heard folks bush hog then burn to get the residue out of the field and the seeds stay intact.

I know several folks around here that spray there sunflowers at maturity to kill them in order to speed up the drying process.

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Thanks guys, I've used gly on browntop to make it dry quicker, and I've seen places that have been burned afterwards. It has seemed to me that gly and then burning makes an ideal dove field, but the problem is that it doesn't last. The first time it rains, the seeds sprout and that's the end of it. If you are planning for one big shoot, that's probably the way to do it, but I'd rather keep feed available for most of the season, and into the second season if possible. You can't plant wheat in the second season, so any crop that will last until then would be ideal.

I would think that the bush hog would scatter it if it's dry enough, I'm wondering if much of the seed will naturally fall to the ground if I do nothing. Anyone tried this? Will those pods stay in the plant, or will they start dropping off once it has finished growing? Do other things like turkeys knock the plants over to get at the seed?

I don't think I have ever seen a sesame plant growing before, so I am just experimenting here. Be interesting to see if the turkeys will eat it; I'm pretty sure none of them have ever seen one either. smile

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Could you do an area at a time? Like divide your field area in quarters or whatever works best? I’ve done a field where we cut some and left some standing to be able to hide in the un cut and shoot over the cut. Some dove were hard to find that landed in the uncut but it was good work for the dog.

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Originally Posted by YellaLineHunter
Could you do an area at a time? Like divide your field area in quarters or whatever works best? I’ve done a field where we cut some and left some standing to be able to hide in the un cut and shoot over the cut. Some dove were hard to find that landed in the uncut but it was good work for the dog.



Oh yeah, I will definitely manage it in strips. Thanks for the idea. The dove magnet is on one side, and the sesame on the other, with a narrow strip of Egyptian wheat in between. I planted it mainly for a place for the hunters to hide. We planted my uncle's place the same way.

We both have room to plant a strip of wheat every week, so the plan is to get as many hunts as we can.


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Hope y’all get several barrel burners off of yalls fields! Hope to see some pictures of how it all turns out

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