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<blockquote data-quote="Farmer Roy" data-source="post: 6604252" data-attributes="member: 71668"><p>What are your max / min temperatures & also soil temp at 9.00am?</p><p></p><p>sorghum likes a fair bit of heat</p><p></p><p>we plant it in our spring, so it is growing through our summer & grain crops harvested in autumn . . .</p><p></p><p>The pics below are of a failed grain sorghum crop I planted in November last year. Dunno how much you know about our current weather, but due to extreme heat & lack of moisture it didn’t produce any grain. We cut it in June for hay, to retrieve something out of it. No rain since then, with no subsoil moisture. We’ve already had temps well up into the mid - high 30’s C even though it’s early spring. This is the plants 3rd attempt since then of having another crack at life ( the other 2 times were burnt off by frost / cold weather )</p><p>It is happiest in temps from say mid 20’s - low 30’s C</p><p>I don’t know if you would have enough heat units for it to reach its full potential ?</p><p></p><p>we don’t plant it till soil temp at 9.00am is 12 C & rising . . .</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]839311[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]839315[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]839311[/ATTACH]</p><p>sorry for the lack of ground cover. We are fully zero till & that sorghum was planted into standing wheat straw, but it has long since decomposed, oxidised or just physically broken down since then . . .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farmer Roy, post: 6604252, member: 71668"] What are your max / min temperatures & also soil temp at 9.00am? sorghum likes a fair bit of heat we plant it in our spring, so it is growing through our summer & grain crops harvested in autumn . . . The pics below are of a failed grain sorghum crop I planted in November last year. Dunno how much you know about our current weather, but due to extreme heat & lack of moisture it didn’t produce any grain. We cut it in June for hay, to retrieve something out of it. No rain since then, with no subsoil moisture. We’ve already had temps well up into the mid - high 30’s C even though it’s early spring. This is the plants 3rd attempt since then of having another crack at life ( the other 2 times were burnt off by frost / cold weather ) It is happiest in temps from say mid 20’s - low 30’s C I don’t know if you would have enough heat units for it to reach its full potential ? we don’t plant it till soil temp at 9.00am is 12 C & rising . . . [ATTACH type="full"]839311[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]839315[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]839311[/ATTACH] sorry for the lack of ground cover. We are fully zero till & that sorghum was planted into standing wheat straw, but it has long since decomposed, oxidised or just physically broken down since then . . . [/QUOTE]
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