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Quick update, thought I would show growth pics of the plot. My long narrow plot is coming along awesome, great germination and should be a killer stand of brassica. My back kill plot something happened with my seed, it’s seems to have consolidated in areas getting awesom germination and then some bare patches in others. So that plot will have some good pockets of brassica but will almost certainly be getting 100lbs of winter rye come Labor Day. In terms of weeds, well there are non. This no till method has absolutely destroyed the weed competition and honestly I’m sold on this process it’s worked darn near perfect. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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Never quite figured out how to get that to work with paddletail swimbait jigs. I could bust out my stinger hook buck tails though Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Lol you serious? Yah I’m just murdering every laker [emoji849]. All released and all shot back down to the bottom. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Went back to Cayuga cause I just love Lakers on the jig and they did not disappoint. I had over 25 “hits” today but they must have been grabbing short. Kind of amazing how many fish grabbed my lure and didn’t get hooked lol. Either way I boated every fish I hooked which was nine and the action was fast and furious. One thing I have noted is these fish do not seem to like jigs just being popped. It’s either hit on the way to the boat or being sent to the bottom. Almost no bites just jigging it traditionally. Also, good electronics make this so much easier and very fun. Another good day on the lake and I got a nice feeling I am dialing it in even a little better! Big fish of the day weighed in at 9.5 lbs. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Germination results are fantastic! So far so good with the no till method! Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

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Been itching to jig Cayuga for the first time for Lakers and finally got to do it. I got married on 7/31, so the wife and I took the week off to kick back and relax for this full week. We launched out of deans cove and tried right out of the cove, plenty of lookers but no action. Ran south to a flat just north of sheldrake and started getting into them. I went 6/9 and my wife Rachel managed to jig one up all on her own! I also hooked something 20 ft down over 60 that was all over bait head shook like crazy before spitting the jig, was wondering if maybe it was a nice brown. Either way, awesome first trip out! Cayuga Lakers are much more willing than the Lake Ontario ones [emoji23][emoji23] Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Absolutely! Just PM me when you get back and we will link up! I can grab your phone number for easier coordination.

Started it pretty early eh? Any specific strategy to that?

Promised pictures and here they are! Brasscia seed is lying safely under its new bed of rolled and now today sprayed buckwheat (ReelFanatic). In a few weeks we should know what my germination results look like and of course I will document that. We did get rain last night but I’m hoping for a few more thundershowers to optimize germination. We might get one on Tuesday! Here’s to hoping we don’t have a total drought in August!

Alright, big n beasty was seeded into both plots tonight along with 250 lbs of triple 15. Buckwheat smashed over top of it and it looks so cool! I will get pics tomorrow. 70% chance of rain (in Brockport) tonight so it should be perfect. I will up front make a disclaimer that I had the seed setting on my spreader way too open for my longer narrower food plot. So if it comes out as weird thick strips, that will be totally user error. I may hit over the top with a generic brassica mix to make up for it. Either way, that plot will almost certainly be getting 100lbs of winter rye come Labor Day. last thought, holy cow does that buckwheat hold mosisture. My legs were getting wet just when I was breaking it walking through it seeding.

Little update for everyone, buckwheat is now easily chest high! In some places neck high! The time is near for seeding, fertilizing and then crushing the buckwheat. I will say this is working perfectly. The buckwheat has shaded and choked any undergrowth weeds and it’s just moist bare dirt ready for the brassica seeds. This has worked better than I could have hoped. Oh, and there are honey bees and butterflies in the buckwheat by the thousands!

When is the earliest you guys would do brassica? I'm toying around with the idea of this Friday. Looks like rain and I wouldn't mind have them in the ground prior to the 1st of August for a little jumpstart.

As of right now I would guess there is little to no browse, which is perfect. I don’t need them hammering the buckwheat 😂.

I won’t be disking mine in, but I will be top dressing my .5 acre plots with 200 lbs of triple 15 fertilizer and seeding my brassica before a rain. This will be going into standing buckwheat that I will be crushing over the fertilizer and seed with a cultipacker, the moisture insulation of the dying buckwheat along with the rain moisture should get that fertilizer working and seeds germinating. Going heavy on the rates to account for not working into the soil.

Do you gentlemen apply granular fertilizer at time of seeding or do you wait for germination?

Update, growing like crazy! Buckwheat is starting to flower and is over knee high! Definitely a smothering the weeds out. As an added bonus, the flowers are highly attractive and beneficial for pollinators.

Circling back through our productive zone in that shallow water was hugely important today.

Just a little update here, BW is growing great in both fields, as of a few days ago tallest stalks are around 10-11 inches tall. Thought maybe they would be taller by now but the lack of rain in the last two weeks probably has quite a bit to do with that. In any case if we get any rain I believe I’ll see a big surge of growth in July. Pics below.

For whatever reason it won’t let me upload the second half of the video so I’ll explain, but as you can see the buckwheat is coming in fantastic. It will act as a smother crop, that shades out weed competition during summer and acts as a pollinator crop. When brassica time comes I will broadcast the fertilizer and brassica seed into the standing buckwheat and then smash the buckwheat down with a roller and spray the plot with gly. This will ensure great seed to soil contact as well as creating a layer of “mulch” over my seeds to trap moisture and build my top layer of soil. On top of that it should kill any small amount of broadleaf weeds that did germinate during summer. The first portion is going well so I can’t wait to see the fall results!