What's this rot and what's caused it??
The rot is just rot.
What the splitting is caused by could be Boron Deficiency .
What sort of ground are they grown on?
That's a nice sales pitch for your slagIt looks just like Boron to me - I had a 20 acre field just the same- sprayed it and it stopped it - used slag after and never had a problem again
600kg/ha of 10-20-10+B applied pre sowing.
I didnt think that would be too much, but maybe it is?
It has been a growthy year in starts and stops which may have led to splitting.
An optimistic 40% affected.
Too much slagMine were more like this - rotting under the stem View attachment 911490
Slag will grow roots like nothing else - that I have proven, another good one is Limex , Puffin spuds use tons of itToo much slag
Wouldn’t mention them around here with the cauli department...Slag will grow roots like nothing else - that I have proven, another good one is Limex , Puffin use tons of it
Wouldn’t mention them around here with the cauli department...
Having used limex when working near Newark and the return loads for beet I took in was limex I know the product well.
Exactly, which is how I’ve done so much with it when I wasn’t far from Newark and was delivering in.My understanding was that beet growers would take Limex back with their empty trailers as it cost bugger all, which was about what it was worth.
On that basis, I’m not sure how the figures could stack up if it has to be hauled over West from ever more distant beet factories.
Was that the drier stuffExactly, which is how I’ve done so much with it when I wasn’t far from Newark and was delivering in.
The efficiencies of some arnt always to be admired. Look at the AD boys hauling maize 100+mile, sometimes you need to waste the money so that you can tighten down on costs when push comes to shove. Topping and ploughing in a big acreage of cauli’s on expensive rents When you havnt even picked them can’t stack up....
Exactly, which is how I’ve done so much with it when I wasn’t far from Newark and was delivering in.
The efficiencies of some arnt always to be admired. Look at the AD boys hauling maize 100+mile, sometimes you need to waste the money so that you can tighten down on costs when push comes to shove. Topping and ploughing in a big acreage of cauli’s on expensive rents When you havnt even picked them can’t stack up....