Gleam and Skyscraper wheat

[Colin]

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?

Ears staring to come out here, only 30" tall. Had 0.1 then 0.2 moddus with 1.75 3c on light land with 200kg N.

 

[4course]

no gleam but skyscraper and gravity next to each other first year for both ,up to mid may the skyscraper looked a better variety but the gravity seems to have come on very well, both have big ears and plenty of tillers neither have had panic disease actions using a relatively cheap old chem approach , theve both been clean but so have others i.e.barrel lili kerrin and motown which of them all seems to be underated as did well here last year and looks well now as a second wheat --------------------------------------

 

[willy]

Bassett look bloody good here again. Don’t know why but it always delivers here

 

[kc6475]

We have tried gleam and gravity for the first time, planted side by side, so same field, same chems, and fert, they both looked identical back in April, but it's been dry here since, and the gravity looks far thicker now, noticibly more heads, will be growing gravity again unless there is a big surprise when the combine hits the field. The best looking so far is sundance, it's grown as a second wheat and looks fantastic, less spend on fungicide also.

 

[foul mouth phil]

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.

Have 30 acres of gravity next to 18 acres of gleam on some very light land, the field has had plenty of fym and after spring beans ,the gravity is much taller and leaner looking than the gleam both crops have had the same fert and sprays,the gravity does look very clean with very big heads but the gleam is a lot thicker and a stronger looking crop, time will tell I guess.

 

[dirty harry]

I hope gravity does better for you guys than it did for me last year, it looked amazing here & won the local crop competition etc, but when I got in it with the combine it was very deflating- lots of pink straw & very little wheat? Apparently it did ok elsewhere but not around here for whatever reason?
Growing a small field again this year to give it the benefit of doubt - which fingers crossed looks well...?
Cheers dh

 

[Mad Farmer]

We grew Gravity and Kerrin side by side last year. The gravity looked brilliant but come harvest the kerrin yielded .6t/ha more. But it was a dry year.

 

[willy]

I found gravity defied gravity (low bushel) last year but giving it one more chance this year. A bit of it has gone down already so maybe it’s name is apt after all.

 

[woodylane]

40acres of Gleam for seed, looks very well, clean all season and good height. Takes a while to get to GS31 but that worked to our favour in the west and allowed T1 to go on in good conditions.

 

[Wombat]

My skyscraper this morning

 

[david]

Have seen yellow rust showing up in untreated plots of Gleam - which is worrying !

 

[4course]

have some gravity next to some skyscraper up until today thought that the skyscraper much better having walked across both tonight im thinking I could be wrong as to which will yield the best, both first wheats both had same treatment except the gravity was sown nearly a week later, time will tell

 

[DRC]

Both fields of gravity have large laid patches now. It’s looked leggy all year and has had a lot of PGR . Heads don’t look particularly big either , compared to Graham and Costello.

 

[teslacoils]

Frontier trials tomorrow.....wonder which variety did best last year. I went for Grafton.

 

[solo]

Grafton is looking really good so far this year whilst crop walking. Trials in Shropshire of graham looked good too.

 

[farm]

How has gleam and skyscraper been yielding

 

[Wombat]

Just posted this in the other skyscraper thread

Cut my 7 acres of first wheat skyscraper and it did 4.66t/a a few bits quite badly laid so need to up the growth reg a bit but home saving the seed and growing a chunk more next year

 

[teslacoils]

Not into it yet. Gleam looks decent. But then everything looks decent right now.

 

[Wombat]

Not into it yet. Gleam looks decent. But then everything looks decent right now.

Yeah it’s very rare year when I haven’t cut anything under 4t/a yet

 

[teslacoils]

Yes, there's a lot of corn.