Hey guys just wanted to share a few pictures of one of my food plots planted in Mass Builder. This area is roughly 1 1/2 acres in size. Over three quarters will be planted in mass builder while the remaining quarter will be planted in GRO's Fall Draw later this summer. Will be updating with more pics as the season progresses.
This picture was taken on 5-30-17, day of planting
Third and fourth picture were taken on 6-23, only 24 days after planting
WOW! WI_Plotter, that's an awesome looking food plot!!!!
Noqs that's a great choice, please post some follow up pics, I'm eyeing on planting some for next year.
So far I've been very impressed with all of the mixes I've planted from John. Just took a walk around the fall draw and was astound to find a 7" radish that was pulled from ground and being eaten on by deer.
I love the GRO liquid plant foods! Nice looking plots WI_Plotter!!!
That is some great response. I switched up some of my plantings from my original plan. Just planted Deer Cafeteria 8/23. Will get some pictures when I get some growth. Unusual weather in northern LP Michigan. 41 degrees this morning.
Under a week since spraying field with 9-4-9
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Mass builder also responded well after spraying
Nope not a sill question. Honestly there's really no wrong way of doing it. The approach I took was that I walked the entire field with the nozzle on mist then I took a few more passes with it on a direct stream. I also watched the weather and applied it a few hours before it rained. My goal was to ensure I got good coverage on most the plants and then let the rain do the rest. Hopefully this helps answer your question.
Placed my order yesterday, seed and 9-4-9. Kinda silly question, do you "soak" it, spray just the growth or cover the entire field?
Noqs I used the amount posted above by adding 1-3 oz per gallon of water. When it came time of application I decided to purchase an affordable 2 gallon hand held sprayer from TSC, since our sprayer on back of ATV was filled with round up. Downside of doing it this way is it's more work and it took longer than if I had done it with an ATV.
I'll try to get back next week to show growth after spraying.
No problem!
Thanks for the info and update.
The site has been updated to show it now. Also you can click on "More" for further directions.
If you are asking on how to mix the 9-4-9, it ends up being around 1- 3oz per gallon of water or 1 - 2qts per acre. It should also say on the jug itself when you get it.
I will be getting some more seed from John for 2 fields and some 9-4-9. How did you mix it? I did not see instructions on this page.
AWESOME!!!!!
Just a quick update.
After being away for a couple weeks was able to make it out to the farm and check my plots. Only been 23 days since seeding and Fall Draw is over ankle high and starting to fill in nicely. I also took along some of GRO's 9-4-9 liquid foliar plant food so I could add micro nutrients on both plots and a bag of turnips to fill in spots that were bare. Needless to say as you can seen from the pics didn't need much of the turnip seed. I will however use what's leftover of the turnip seed and broadcast it into my corn fields.
Thanks. I want to see how it fills in.
Cody I'm right there with ya, can't wait to see how it turn out.
Noqs the method we used was we first tilled the soil with a walk behind, spread fertilizer and tilled in, broadcast one bag of fall draw seed by hand then finished by compacting it all by running over it with a lawn roller behind atv.
How did you seed?
Can't wait to see pics of it in a few weeks!