milo and sorgum

[greatlawn]

I put some milo and sorgum in around the first of June in Emporia Ks. My problem is it got up about knee but never headed out. I fertilized with a 18-24-12. What did I do wrong? Did I plant to early? Did I plant to deep?

Thanks

 

[southernblues]

how much moisture did you get? mine was similar with ultra drought in SEK, however i did get some heads on milo and sunflowers. i worked the soil and broadcast the seed and worked in with hog fence pulled behind atv.

 

[greatlawn]

moisture was lacking. I put in two more plots July 9 they look great. I did however use up some old 32-3-8 fert that I had.

 

[1GB]

When you say you fertilized, did you fertilize enough for what you planted? A soil test would have told you how much fertilizer you'd need.

I suspect you might have no had enough N in your first planting. When I plant I'll do an initial fertilizing similar to what you did, then once the plants are around knee high I'll top dress around 100 pounds of "urea", aka "46-0-0" per acre right before a big storm comes in (need rain to work the urea down in the soil).

 

[greatlawn]

Thanks for the info in the process of getting the soil test for next year.

 

[Ranger Rick]

A sidebar question - was hunting some milo strips this past weekend that were full of sand burrs, when none of those nasty things in the surrounding cover. Are the seeds mixed in with the milo that they end up in there? Nasty, nasty buggers, they are!

 

[oldandnew]

Conservation department here in Missouri must seed cockleburr's in with the crop. Really nice thick stands, makes you wish you trimmed the dogs prior to entry. it's either worse than I remember as a kid or I forgot how bad it can be. See whole cut fields sometimes 40 acres, dark brown with cockleburr. We are to far east for sanburrs but a hundred miles west they are the pits.