Whitetail Institute Power Plant - Maine 2018 video time lapse
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- This time of year it's hard to remember what a green leaf looks like! I know there's a bunch of people on here doing food plots and Maine comes with it's own set of challenges for sure. I put together a time lapse video of one of my one acre plots that I planted last year with Whitetail Institutes Power plant which is mostly a blend of soybeans and sunflowers. What I learned is that these plots have very little attraction value in the fall during October and November but are amazing summer plots. My soil PH was optimum at 6.8 or higher and I planted around June 1st. I absolutely love the soybean and sunflower blend but will do my own seed blend in the future and plow it all under in mid august to make way for fall planting. Hope this helps anyone considering this for planting.
The Sunflowers are great attraction and nutrition for the deer and other animals. It also builds up your soul for future plantings so I'm not sure why some are complaining about you disking some under and planting oats. That's what I've done this past year and will do this Spring. The deer love the sunflowers all Spring and Summer and hammer the oats and winter wheat or winter rye all fall through the next Spring. What works in one land managers area isn't always the best in every area and that's okay. We each need to keep experimenting and plant what we feel is the best. Some guys like clearing the land completely and some like and need to plant varieties that help build up their soil.
Thank you for sharing a great video
That power plant plot looks pretty good. But why did you cut it down instead of leaving it?
It was the first time planting it and wasn't sure how attractive it would be come November and I'm glad I did because it had nothing left. In my area it's a great summer feeding plot but if you want to hunt over it in November there 's much better stuff to plant.
Also how tall do the plants get? Do the deer like them taller?
The deer didn't really care about the height but if you plan on hunting over it then the shorter the better.
How much work did you have to do to the soil before hand?
Whatever the soil sample recommended I can't remember exactly but I'm guessing a ton of lime and 250 lbs of fertilizer. Then just disk it all in a long with the sunflower seeds.
What’s in this mix of seed??
This is a one acre plot and I planted 50lbs of Whitetail Institutes power-plant blend (check out label for seed blend) and 20lbs of black oil seed bird seed
What sunflower seed did you use and where did you get it?
Just regular old black oil sunflower seeds that you can buy at Wal-Mart or any place that you buy birdseed
MasterGuideMaine thank you
Did this attract doves?
In Maine we can'y hunt doves so I really didn't pay attention but I can tell you it attracted a ton of birds in general so I'm guessing yes it would definitely attract doves. Just a side note... I've stopped planting the expensive whitetail powerplant and switched to just planting black oil sunflower birdseed it comes up great for a fraction of the cost.
@@MasterGuideMaine damn no doves that sucks. But that's a good idea. I might try that and make my own blend for deer. Here in Maryland we plant black oil sunflowers strictly for dove, they love it.
We don't have a ton of doves there around but not in any great numbers. The black oil sunflowers are a deer magnet and they devour them. I plow most of it under in now to make room for fall crops. If planted heavy they have excellent shade value and help with weed control.
Why would you disc that down. It has beans and many other forages which would have been amazing for winter nutrition and attracting during the hunting season. Complete waste of 75% of the food plot.
Because the soybeans had been devoured and the sunflowers had become large and unattractive to the deer. The decision was made to terminate half of it because I felt it was going to have little attraction in November and I was right. Sorry the video disappeared you, Have you ever planted them?
Yes I plant 15 acres of food plot every year. Which includes 3-5 acres of power plant
I had 2 acres of it planted (1 acre each on 2 different plots) and with the soybeans already eaten I felt that that it would be of little value come hunting season. So I decided to disk in the thin spots which ended up being about half and planted oats which the deer here in my area go crazy over.
It looks like too many sunflowers for a deer blend. They probably shaded out a lot of the soybeans and cowpeas as thick as they are. The varieties of peas and soybeans used in PowerPlant are selected for forage quality more so than seed production. They aren't going to provide near as much nutrition to deer in the fall and winter as would brassicas, ag soybeans, oats, or clover. I'm going to try some PowerPlant this year and am very hopeful. I'm not adding anything to it because I think that Whitetail Institute only sells products that are proven the way that they design and blend them.