buck forage oats tips turning purple??/
09-22-2008, 07:56 PM
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Fork Horn
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buck forage oats tips turning purple??/
they started to come up great and are about 4 inches tall but now havent grown any lately. we've had plenty of rain lately, and now all the tips are turning purple. does this mean there dying already???
09-23-2008, 03:59 AM
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RE: buck forage oats tips turning purple??/
Sounds to me like to much water. I planted these last year in a bottom and they looked awesome. The deer ate the fool out of them, then the rain came and they turned purple and died. Some of the plot that was on higher ground still looked good until it was finally taken over by the water.
09-23-2008, 09:21 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: buck forage oats tips turning purple??/
purple color in your plants is a sign of stress of some sort.
could be too much water, but it could be not enough Phosphurous - maybe not enough Nitrogen.
We see it in corn when its young, stress - usually whenits too cold to get going. I've seen it in areas where the soils were lacking in nutrients. Sometimes, conditions change and the plants "come out of it" - However - if the soil is very acidic, or lacking in a ket nutrient, it will remain stunted.
FH
could be too much water, but it could be not enough Phosphurous - maybe not enough Nitrogen.
We see it in corn when its young, stress - usually whenits too cold to get going. I've seen it in areas where the soils were lacking in nutrients. Sometimes, conditions change and the plants "come out of it" - However - if the soil is very acidic, or lacking in a ket nutrient, it will remain stunted.
FH
09-24-2008, 05:11 PM
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Fork Horn
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RE: buck forage oats tips turning purple??/
well my ph levels were 5.7 when i planted, i had put down about 2 tons an acre of lime about a week before that. We didnt get any rain for a few weeks after planting and then got about 5 inches in a weekend than another 3-4 a week or so later. It hasnt rained anymore in about a week and a half. What do you do about it know, or do you just sit back and watch??
09-24-2008, 10:22 PM
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RE: buck forage oats tips turning purple??/
5 inches i alot of rain at 1 time but that shouldnt kill them. i have planted them for several years and have never had any trouble with them turning purple, but my plots are on well drained soil
09-29-2008, 08:31 PM
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Fork Horn
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RE: buck forage oats tips turning purple??/
well it dried up quite a bit before today, today it rained about an inch and things are looking alot better. as you prolly know this is my first food plot and first thing planted in the land in 11 years, just wondering when i should fertilize, what are the recommendations on fert and how much, as my seed has prolly been in the ground a month and is about 4 inches now.