Gravity wheat
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dirty harry
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- Location
- east of east midlands!
I’ll tell you after harvest!!
Has looked great since the day it emerged here & tillered well & clean so far, looks promising?
Cheers dh
Has looked great since the day it emerged here & tillered well & clean so far, looks promising?
Cheers dh
pipestretcher
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
Really pleased with ours, looks well seems to have kept fairly clean but is partial to a bit of Mildew.
dirty harry
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- east of east midlands!
John Slejpner
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- Location
- Brick clay near Bedford
I am not convinced its OBM resistance is 100% - have a few orange larvae on developing grain - are lemon midge larvae a strong orange in colour?
This time last year at a trials site i was told NOT OBM resistant in answer to the direct question.
That aside looks well.
This time last year at a trials site i was told NOT OBM resistant in answer to the direct question.
That aside looks well.
- Location
- S E Glos
Strange; yellow midge larvae are definitely not deep orange. Are they alive? The mechanism lets them in but then kills them.
It looks well here but as said before the combine will let us know for sure. I would be surprised if it is not our best yielder this year. Worried about comments on not OBM resistant. I saw a rogue plant standing tall in a field of Skyfall yesterday and it was full of larvae. Just been out to look at our Gravity and could not find one larvae fortunately. It would have been well tested as we had swarms of the little orange buggers.
John Slejpner
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- Brick clay near Bedford
Just taken apart a 7 spikelet length of a Gravity ear
30 good grains
6 rubbish grains associated with a larvae - dead and orange
5 grain sites entirely wrecked full of larvae - lemons - same length as orange but less girth - alive
All figures approximate - dissection by an amateur - but the combine is not going to be any more precise - 20+% is either not there or going to be blown over the back
30 good grains
6 rubbish grains associated with a larvae - dead and orange
5 grain sites entirely wrecked full of larvae - lemons - same length as orange but less girth - alive
All figures approximate - dissection by an amateur - but the combine is not going to be any more precise - 20+% is either not there or going to be blown over the back
I will go and have another look later. Resistant varieties are crucial to us as in a hotspot for them. If it has not got resistance I would not want to be in the suppliers shoes as RAGT categorically states it has. Could be a lot of compensation claims heading their way for associated damage if not. Be interested to here is anyone else has found the same.
- Location
- Suffolk
I can certainly find OWBM in gravity here... but to be fair I can find them in all varieties. It was such a high pressure attack that there was bound to be some vulnerabilities. On the whole resistance seems to have worked well though.
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- Location
- West Suffolk
What part of Suffolk are you @farmerfred86 ?
John Slejpner
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- Brick clay near Bedford
I think those in your photo are lemon - like you, all varieties here have them because the lemon are immune to the mechanism that works on Orange.
3 to 5 grain empty sites per ear of lemons would be typical
- Location
- Suffolk
The best part... south Suffolk
- Location
- West Suffolk
- Location
- Suffolk
Thats right.
Given the numbers of OWBM we saw here i'm not surprised to see so larvae have made it into the ear. I don't think these are Yellow/lemon midge. But the varietal resistance appears to have done its job. I think the lack of rain is going to have a far greater bearing on the yield though now.
Given the numbers of OWBM we saw here i'm not surprised to see so larvae have made it into the ear. I don't think these are Yellow/lemon midge. But the varietal resistance appears to have done its job. I think the lack of rain is going to have a far greater bearing on the yield though now.
