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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 6535878" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>My stubble turnip seed has a TGW of 1.85g. I know that because I am sad enough to have spent the last hour counting them out and weighing them on some antique chemistry scales.</p><p>I broadcast at 2 kg per ha which works out at 108 seeds per square metre.</p><p></p><p>5 days after broadcast/rolling I have about 20 seedlings per square metre at best which I am not very pleased with, but more might emerge.</p><p></p><p>But for stubble turnips I like them thinly sown as there is more chance of growing a big root. If each root gets to 250g then that's 50 t/ha of root.</p><p>Its very late for stubble turnips but the idea was to test the rig rather than grow a crop, but a crop of turnips would be a bonus.</p><p></p><p>Not quite sure what rate to drill the rape, but I might stick to what it says on the bag and go for 100 seeds per square metre (4.5 kg/ha) especially as I am not sure how well they will come up behind this cross kill roller and also I reckon the Turbojet Wizard controller is exaggerating a bit and in fact isn't applying what it says on the screen, probably due to some error on my part or the fact its ten years old. I told it to apply 3 kg per ha of turnips and it only seems to have applied 2 kg.</p><p></p><p>All good stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 6535878, member: 2119"] My stubble turnip seed has a TGW of 1.85g. I know that because I am sad enough to have spent the last hour counting them out and weighing them on some antique chemistry scales. I broadcast at 2 kg per ha which works out at 108 seeds per square metre. 5 days after broadcast/rolling I have about 20 seedlings per square metre at best which I am not very pleased with, but more might emerge. But for stubble turnips I like them thinly sown as there is more chance of growing a big root. If each root gets to 250g then that's 50 t/ha of root. Its very late for stubble turnips but the idea was to test the rig rather than grow a crop, but a crop of turnips would be a bonus. Not quite sure what rate to drill the rape, but I might stick to what it says on the bag and go for 100 seeds per square metre (4.5 kg/ha) especially as I am not sure how well they will come up behind this cross kill roller and also I reckon the Turbojet Wizard controller is exaggerating a bit and in fact isn't applying what it says on the screen, probably due to some error on my part or the fact its ten years old. I told it to apply 3 kg per ha of turnips and it only seems to have applied 2 kg. All good stuff. [/QUOTE]
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