white tail institutes exteme food plot
 

is this a good foodplot for texas i hunt in west texas with very liitle rain and nothin wants to grow over there.well was this a good food plot?

RE: white tail institutes exteme food plot
 

just bumping it for you. I'm curious what others say about this stuff too since I just planted some in some sandy soil in minnesota. should be sprouting already, i just haven't been able to check it. we've had very little rain this year too. so, i'm worried about it.

RE: white tail institutes exteme food plot
 

same here im still not sure to get it or not because there is little rain in texas

RE: white tail institutes exteme food plot
 

I've got the Extreme planted in south/central GA. It was planted last fall on a hilltop and oncewe got rain it came up well. Deer seemed to like it.This year in March the rains shut down for almost 4 months. The plot, which was about 12" tall in March was burned down to basically nothing with the 90-100 degree heat and no rain for 98 days.

IN the last couple weeks, we've started to get rain and the plot is coming back. Two weeks ago there was nothing there and now it's a couple inches tall and it looks like it made it. I couldn't believe it. All my friends plots are long gone.

The plants need alot of nitrogen. I fertilized with 400 pounds per acre of 17-17-17 at planting time and again 45 days after planting with 100 pounds of 34-0-0. This kept the plants going when the original nitrogen was almost gone.

This February we added another 200 pounds per acre of 17-17-17 to jumpstart the plants again and it worked. They put on about 8" of new growth in a month or so. Then it stopped raining.

In my opinion, the product is sound but it needs to get the additional fertilizer to thrive, especially in sandy soil. I think that may be the key. I know the sand leaches the nutrients so we keptthe N, P and Kup by adding fertilizer.

If the Extremeplanting held up on a hillside in GA this summer, I'm a believer. It was the worst I can remember and the place I planted had never supported a perennial over any summer in 9 years of planting it. I've got a couple fields that are better quality dirt and I bought my Extreme last week at BPS. We get hot and dry every summer and this may be my best option.

Check your soil pH. My best guess is if you plant it in a situation that will be stressful to the seedling plants, ie sandy soil, you need to have a decent pH at planting time.

Hope this helps. Don't forget the additonal fertilizer. I don't think it would have worked without it.


Buster

RE: white tail institutes exteme food plot
 

SB, I planted Extreme last fall and it did pretty good. I also found that secondary fertilizer applications helped. Mine has survived the summer and is starting to green up nicely. I will fertilize again this weekend. Is it too early to add nitrogen.

POP