Maize 2023
- Thread starter Bald Rick
- Start date
Find a nice young lady with small hands to hold it, I’m told it’ll make things look bigger…
- Location
- somerset
neighbour getting ready to cut now, grains as hard as concrete, he tells me.
- Location
- M6 Hard shoulder
my grains as hard as concrete too, freshly laid
- Location
- somerset
ours is soft as butter, but it went in 6 weeks before ours, and some doesn't look very good.
Quite happy to wait for ours, its why we changed from growing h/rye between, rye has to be in, in sept really.
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
8-9 foot tall
Tasseled
Cobs growing
It'll be fine
Tasseled
Cobs growing
It'll be fine
lazy farmer
Member
- Location
- som/dor border
Ok………
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
£50 says that it's harvested before december
I’m not saying you’re wrong but cutting dates don’t really mean very much. I could cut ours tomorrow if I wanted…actually I probably couldn’t because my father would shoot me
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
60 days from tasseling in summer, max 90 days for this stuffI’m not saying you’re wrong but cutting dates don’t really mean very much. I could cut ours tomorrow if I wanted…actually I probably couldn’t because my father would shoot me
- Location
- somerset
neighbour cut some yesterday.
ollie989898
Member
Won't be long before folk get going but the 9th of September would be unusually early in my neck of the woods?
Fedupfarmer
Member
That Maize will never ripen if the weather turns.
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
Might not be by the time it's fit
Got told it wouldn't be tall enough for the harvester when I planted it
lazy farmer
Member
- Location
- som/dor border
Said lieutenant colonel Custer.
ollie989898
Member
The worst that will happen is that he has to harvest it a bit green. Which the bulk of dairy farmers don't seem at all bothered by. One judges if their maize is fit or not by watching to see if a forager appears in next doors crop. I bet the stem on all these crops is wringing with juice in 2 weeks time and no one will bat an eyelid.
Jdunn55
Member
- Location
- Helston, cornwall
When the bottom set or two of leaves are dying back nicely that's when you want to harvest is what I've always thought