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Post by hunter7x on Aug 14, 2007 9:15:40 GMT -5
Put my biologic stuff in last night...in the Sahara desert  |
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Post by hunter7x on Aug 14, 2007 9:16:23 GMT -5
Looks like I timed it right, radar has a nice storm heading htis way.  |
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Post by hunter7x on Aug 14, 2007 9:17:33 GMT -5
Broke my...I mean my ex wife's tiller in the process. guess it's time to take it back !!   |
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Post by hornharvester on Aug 14, 2007 10:51:43 GMT -5
Hopefully this dry weather will change soon. By the time deer season rolls in you plot will be up and have deer every where. h.h.
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Post by hunter7x on Aug 14, 2007 11:56:30 GMT -5
we got rain this morning at my house. Not sure how much yet. I watered one part after I planted it last night. will water some more tonight.
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Post by hornharvester on Aug 14, 2007 13:02:30 GMT -5
Couple years ago I planted my plot and it rained. The plants came up and then no rain for over a month. They were looking bad so i hooked up the field sprayer which holds 200 gallon of water and spayed 400 gallon on the plot. It was more work and not worth the effort. Later it rained and the plot grew up and looked just as good as usual. h.h.
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Post by hunter7x on Aug 14, 2007 14:21:23 GMT -5
I wondered if I was making a difference or not. Is there some kind of formula for how many gallons of water it would take in a given area to equal an inch of rain ?!?!
It's a real pain and my sprayer is sllllooowwww. Glad to see this rain but I sure hope it continues on a regular basis.
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Post by drs on Aug 14, 2007 14:32:14 GMT -5
PLEASE send some of that rain down our way. |
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Post by hunter7x on Aug 14, 2007 15:00:14 GMT -5
Looks like it's headed right down the middle of the state.
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Post by hunter7x on Aug 21, 2007 8:56:53 GMT -5
Walked back in to the plot last night in the rain and was pleased to see everything green that I replanted. Over the weekend I got a wild hair and cut some more trees out to get more day light in. Everything you see coming up green in front of the camera is biologic to the left is part I planted earlier that I left. Next trip back I will clean up every thing and pull my soap in a sock deer spookers.  |
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Post by hornharvester on Aug 21, 2007 9:15:13 GMT -5
Looks good. Have you got you stand up yet? Or are you going to use a climber? I'll bet my plots will be up 4-5 inches tall with all the rain we got. h.h.
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Post by hunter7x on Aug 21, 2007 9:22:31 GMT -5
I wasn't planning on hunting over it other than Turkeys. I may set a ground blind up for my son or my girfriend.
I'm just trying to get the deer and Turks to spend more time on my property. I own 30 acres of timber that is a small part of 1000's of acres of timber. The next ridge looks just like mine. So it's more habitat enhancement than hunter placement !
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Post by hornharvester on Aug 21, 2007 11:55:15 GMT -5
Another thing you might do to attract more deer and wildlife is in the spring go around and fertilize all the oak trees and any fruit tree. Take a boring bit or something you can make a small hole hole 2-3" round and 2-3 ft deep and fill it full of fertilizer. Do this around the drip line of the tree. This will make bigger acorns and fruit and better browse for the deer. h.h.
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Post by hunter7x on Aug 21, 2007 12:26:51 GMT -5
I've heard of doing that before. What kind of fertrilizer is best for this? Also it's aspring thing isn't it ?
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Post by hornharvester on Aug 21, 2007 14:40:14 GMT -5
Id use 12-12-12 but im sure someone who knows more about trees can tell us the best fertilizer. I would think right after the ground thaws when the sap starts to run would be the best time to apply it . h.h. I found this article and its says 10-10-10 - 16-16-16. tinyurl.com/26pk7q |
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Post by hunter7x on Aug 21, 2007 14:57:21 GMT -5
the farm store in Wabash had trip 16 on clearance not too long ago.
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Post by hornharvester on Aug 21, 2007 16:53:33 GMT -5
I bought my food plot fertilizer at TSC in Wabash back in the spring on sale for 6.97 for 40 lb bags. It was triple 12. h.h.
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Post by danf on Aug 21, 2007 19:37:03 GMT -5
Triple anything is a good all around fertilizer for just about any purpose. Just so long as you stick with 12-15%, it's hard to over-fertilize. Get up into the 20++% range, and you really need to watch (and know) what you are doing. More so with nitrogen than the other two.
Trees don't really need the nitrogen, it's the phosphorus and potassium that they need more of. Potassium helps with the root system; if you have a healthy root base, the rest of the tree will follow. On a cost/benefit basis though, you can't beat 12-12-12!
Quick fertilizer lesson for anyone reading that doesn't know how they are labeled. The numbers represent the percentage of that element in the mixture. 12-12-12 has 12% nitrogen, 12% phosphorus, and 12% potassium. Only the nitrogen is in pure form, the other two elements are found in compounds (for general use, it's not terribly important to know that!). The numbers will *always* be in that order- nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium (NPK).
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Post by hunter7x on Aug 22, 2007 9:37:40 GMT -5
Good info Dan thanks
HH I paid $6 something for bags of trip 16 like I said it was on clearance at that tractor supply. I forget how big the bags are but they were bigger than 40 lbs. I won't have time this weekend to get over there but next time I go I'm gonna pick up a few abgs and give the tree thing a try.
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Post by hornharvester on Aug 22, 2007 10:36:08 GMT -5
Remember its an early spring thing. You will have better results applying it then. Right now I'd got around and mark all the trees you want to work with. Id concentrate on the white oaks first and then red oak. Deer and turkey like the acorns of the white oaks the best. h.h.
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