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<blockquote data-quote="cquick" data-source="post: 6577509" data-attributes="member: 35800"><p>I bought a tonne of birdseed red sorghum for £400. I was feeling generous and wanted to feed the crows on my covers.... Unfortunately some of the bloody stuff grew didn't it!</p><p>It's a bit pathetic this year, drilled around 10th August. It all germinated quickly but sat at two/three leaves for a month, until the last few weeks when it's started pushing on again, but it's still less than 10cm tall and is quickly getting outcompeted. Maybe because it was probably F2 hybrid seed, but it could also be the conditions this summer. I have also read that those are the symptoms of 'long fallow disorder', caused by a lack of mycorrhizal association, but considering this is year 21 of no-till here I doubt our soils lack AMF.</p><p>I didn't get any in time to go after the OSR, which was where I had hoped to put it, so that's next year's experiment and hopefully it'll grow faster if drilled in July.</p><p>The slugs hate it, the young and stressed leaves are very bitter and contain cyanide, however I have read that lush growth is quite grazeable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cquick, post: 6577509, member: 35800"] I bought a tonne of birdseed red sorghum for £400. I was feeling generous and wanted to feed the crows on my covers.... Unfortunately some of the bloody stuff grew didn't it! It's a bit pathetic this year, drilled around 10th August. It all germinated quickly but sat at two/three leaves for a month, until the last few weeks when it's started pushing on again, but it's still less than 10cm tall and is quickly getting outcompeted. Maybe because it was probably F2 hybrid seed, but it could also be the conditions this summer. I have also read that those are the symptoms of 'long fallow disorder', caused by a lack of mycorrhizal association, but considering this is year 21 of no-till here I doubt our soils lack AMF. I didn't get any in time to go after the OSR, which was where I had hoped to put it, so that's next year's experiment and hopefully it'll grow faster if drilled in July. The slugs hate it, the young and stressed leaves are very bitter and contain cyanide, however I have read that lush growth is quite grazeable. [/QUOTE]
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