The biggest Wheat Ear challenge

[sahara]

A bit of fun here.

While out pulling Ryegrass this afternoon I could see that there are a few anomalous wheat plants, usually taller plants with a bigger ear.
So I started to look for the biggest one I could find.

Here it is, a Grafton Wheat ear at 14.5cm tall,

Can you find a bigger one?

 

[4course]

A bit of fun here.

While out pulling Ryegrass this afternoon I could see that there are a few anomalous wheat plants, usually taller plants with a bigger ear.
So I started to look for the biggest one I could find.

Here it is, a Grafton Wheat ear at 14.5cm tall,
View attachment 968433
Can you find a bigger one?

length isnt everything what really matters is the weight and numbers of seeds ,not just in wheat ears aparently

 

[Kildare]

Here is a long one 13 grains. Can't claim its my crop. Seen it in a amenity area in Oxford

 

[teslacoils]

Biggest wheat ears

Just wondering how long some wheat ears are? Have some love looking wheat at the moment the revelation has the longes ears and hopefully will fill.

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@Admin please merge.

 

[Kidds]

length isnt everything what really matters is the weight and numbers of seeds ,not just in wheat ears aparently

Length is absolutely everything in a longest wheat ear challenge.

 

[willy]

What about Noddys mate?

 

[wellingtonfarmer]

Here is a long one 13 grains. Can't claim its my crop. Seen it in a amenity area in Oxford View attachment 968444View attachment 968445

I have never found one longer than 13 Grains.

 

[Laggard]

Kerrin 13.5cm. The kids are determined to find a bigger one whilst rouging

 

[Barleymow]

Kerrin 13.5cm. The kids are determined to find a bigger one whilst rouging
View attachment 969116

How did you calibrate your tape measure?

 

[4course]

I reckon a better measure is a combination of ears/sqm grains/ear and tgw . some varieties have longer but less grain sites/ ear than others and some have more grain sites on shorter ears so just going by ear size whilst a pointer to final yield is not the b all and end all, I was involved in some trials years ago that showed thinner crops on less fertile land yielded far better than thicker ones mainly due to tgw of the grains and grains/ear(ie less ears/sqm) and yet farmers general response was to sow a greater number of seeds ,which is possibly why the old 12st an acre everywhere held true

 

[Laggard]

How did you calibrate your tape measure?

I made sure that the tape measure was at standard temperature and pressure (got it out of the wife’s handbag ) and calibrated it next to my daughter’s Hello Kitty ruler. This is all recorded for Red Tractor.

 

[Barleymow]

I made sure that the tape measure was at standard temperature and pressure (got it out of the wife’s handbag ) and calibrated it next to my daughter’s Hello Kitty ruler. This is all recorded for Red Tractor.View attachment 969120

Hope you had permission to rifle in handbag

 

[redsloe]

Hope you had permission to rifle in handbag

I'd be worried that it was in there in the first place!

 

[Laggard]

Hope you had permission to rifle in handbag

Don’t keep the rifle in there.

 

[fieldfarmer]

I reckon a better measure is a combination of ears/sqm grains/ear and tgw . some varieties have longer but less grain sites/ ear than others and some have more grain sites on shorter ears so just going by ear size whilst a pointer to final yield is not the b all and end all, I was involved in some trials years ago that showed thinner crops on less fertile land yielded far better than thicker ones mainly due to tgw of the grains and grains/ear(ie less ears/sqm) and yet farmers general response was to sow a greater number of seeds ,which is possibly why the old 12st an acre everywhere held true

Above is true if you're trying to estimate yield, however in a longest ear competition the length of the ear is the only thing that counts.

 

[4course]

Above is true if you're trying to estimate yield, however in a longest ear competition the length of the ear is the only thing that counts.

Ah but length isnt everything, ho ho

 

[Trying]

Here is a couple of ears of Extase as my entrance into the how big is yours.

 

[goodevans]

I made sure that the tape measure was at standard temperature and pressure (got it out of the wife’s handbag ) and calibrated it next to my daughter’s Hello Kitty ruler. This is all recorded for Red Tractor.View attachment 969120

She is a good kid if you have her out rouging and she still uses a hello kitty rule

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Nice example found walking a field for @Nick. today. Not sure of the variety.

Cracking piece of wheat Nick on the big field near Grove Farm, superb.

I seldom see any blackgrass at Nicks, and today I saw why. They’ve been out spraying what odd plants they do have with a napsack sprayer. Top work. Well, I presume it’s bits of black grass?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

But you are all but amateurs.

This is a variety @Kevtherev and I have been developing. We call it Weetabollix