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I don’t think you’ll see any of that until the fall. I’m thinking that there's probably a certain threshold with soil and maybe air temps that trigger seeds like that to sprout or stay dormant. Just like with my crimson clover. I just produced a LOT of seed that has now gone to ground. Its just gonna lay there until the fall though and then suddenly I’ll see anther patch of crimson clover emerge. I would say that daylight hours could possibly effect it but that doesn’t seem likely with a seed since its not really even seeing the sun. If you produced a bumper crop of cereal grains with big long seed heads I bet you’lll be surprised how much comes back volunteer….especially with cereal rye. Due to the seed shortage I didn’t even plant cereal rye this last year except for just what small amount was in the mix I bought. When I walked around this spring though….there was cereal rye seed heads every damn where….even places like my peach orchard where I haven’t planted in 2 or 3 years. Its nowhere near as thick as we’d normally like to see with our fall plots but it definitely still had a strong presence.