Home saving conventional OSR
- Thread starter Laggard
- Start date
- Location
- Lincolnshire
No Roundup
snipe
Member
- Location
- west yorkshire
Home saved our seed for last 3 years. Used roundup, astrokerb. No problems yet.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It depends if there is some seed under ripe at the time of spraying, but roundup spraying reduces yield anyway so not bothered here for at least 20 years.
Zebbedee
Member
- Location
- Scotland in the best bit
Combine losses always seem to germinate well enough
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It would be hard to tell if they only had 50% germination though.
Zebbedee
Member
- Location
- Scotland in the best bit
Up here not to roundup osr would be a bold move, but yield must take a penalty. Out of interest how many days later would you be cutting compared to a desiccated crop
Zebbedee
Member
- Location
- Scotland in the best bit
Yes totally but surely the point of home saved seed would be to spend less time establishing the crop and just double the seed rate as the seed cost is minimal
Zebbedee
Member
- Location
- Scotland in the best bit
A week is neither here nor there and well it’s got to go through the drier anyway, but up here in north Scotland you could be nearer a month I reckon, it takes three weeks for roundup to sorta work,,,,,,, thick green stems are hard work to harvest, but having said that I may trial a tramline with no glyphosate
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Yes thats what we did.. (flee beetle put a stop to growing it) but never roundup-ed, oddly 90% of the seed mix was home saved and never had a flea beetle problem, then once the ban came in we lost the crop.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Be gentle with the thrashing, its thrashed before it gets to the drum so get it out the back without smashing the stems and you will be OK.A week is neither here nor there and well it’s got to go through the drier anyway, but up here in north Scotland you could be nearer a month I reckon, it takes three weeks for roundup to sorta work,,,,,,, thick green stems are hard work to harvest, but having said that I may trial a tramline with no glyphosate
- Location
- Bedfordshire
We just leave the best acre or 2 of crop without roundup. Combine the rest and come back to the seed section and faf about putting in tonne bags out of the combine spout.