Gleam and Skyscraper wheat

[farm]

Any one growing these varieties how are they doing interested in planting some this autumn .

 

[Worsall]

30 acres of Skyscraper. Lots of PGR needed, and probably our dirtiest Septoria variety, with mild leaf tipping. Doesn't look pretty, but massive leaf and has the potential. Time will tell?

 

[Two Tone]

I’m growing Skyscraper for seed.
I like tall varieties to help out-grow Blackgrass.
It went through Winter as not very prolific then took off in the Spring.
Not too happy with the lowish Septoria resistance. We have put more fungicide on it than our Dunston and given it a higher rate of PGR.

It’ll need to yield well or it will get the boot in favour of Extase.
I’m told it should yield well, so let’s wait and see.

 

[Wombat]

I have some skyscraper and it's looked terrific all year, growing it on the back of some Sundance I grew last year and fancied another variety from LG. Growing Sundance again as well. We need varieties that tiller well in spring after 5 months in cold wet clay so sacked off Skyfall to grow it as that never seem to tiller well enough in the spring and didn't yield well.
It was a lovely green/purple colour before the rain now it looks like it would bite you. Fairly clean so far so will see at harvest. If it yields ok it's staying for my small bit

 

[teslacoils]

I have some gleam. Looks really good. Very little disease. Annoyingly it is next to some Bennington which although has needed more chem, looks head and shoulders better. Although it's what ends up in the shed that pays the bills. Both look better than Lili.

 

[John Slejpner]

. Both look better than Lili.

Lili's job in life is to boost the self-esteem of every other wheat in the parish.

 

[Jo28]

we have a little bit of gleam. looks clean and tillered really well. will see at harvest

 

[Gone Shooting]

Gleam growing for home saved use looking good here.

 

[Gong Farmer]

30 acres of Skyscraper. Lots of PGR needed, and probably our dirtiest Septoria variety, with mild leaf tipping. Doesn't look pretty, but massive leaf and has the potential. Time will tell?

IMO Skyscraper is another Santiago, costly to grow but a barnfiller which should pay for the inputs. However, looking forward the mantra that 'yield is king' will be a thing of the past.

 

[Dave b]

Gleam for the second year here very happy

 

[texelburger]

Growing Gleam for the first time and it's looking well.

 

[robbie]

Bit of topic but what's gravity like from a growers perspective, it sounds good on paper.

Quite like the look of skyscraper with tall straw for lightland.

 

[APJ]

Gleam here looking very well for the first time being grown, growing gravity for the second season seems to suit us, vigorous tillering nice and clean also stiff so suits fertile situations.

 

[APJ]

Pic of Gleam

 

[Brisel]

I have some gleam. Looks really good. Very little disease. Annoyingly it is next to some Bennington which although has needed more chem, looks head and shoulders better. Although it's what ends up in the shed that pays the bills. Both look better than Lili.

I'm also looking at Gleam as a replacement for Lili. down south we've lost 700k tonnes of milling capacity so feed only looks to be the order of the year. Early driller, lateish maturing, good septoria score.

Lili's job in life is to boost the self-esteem of every other wheat in the parish.

Lili hasn't done badly here, just not very well either. Hard to make protein & thresh in the combine too.

 

[teslacoils]

Lili is preferred to Siskin here simply on straw strength. In every other respect siskin is better. No mills really want the lili but you can chuck fert at it and it stays up.

I've been told gleam better than gravity . I've gravity growing elsewhere which is using plenty more chem.

 

[teslacoils]

Gleam is going to have to put a shift in to do better than the Lili which, apart from scruffy leaf tips, looks way better.

 

[yellow belly]

If it is tall this year and fall over what would it do in a good grown year
Fine for those who drill after the 25 October for black grass

 

[teslacoils]

All wheat seems tall this year. Less pgr?:

 

[willy]

I hate dry years as it makes pgr so much more difficult, hot and dry they spank it hard, at least a growy year you can just keep slapping the pgr on without worrying.

For me variable pgr next year is going to be my plan. As I have some gone down on some fields today ( they have had some) but the other end of the field and there are dead pr nearly dead and half the height.