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Texasmark1

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Soon I am going to use my Tractor and mower to cut this year's winter crop and want to reseed for next year in the process. My
question is timing. If I can put my hand around a seed head bundle, with just enough pressure to feel resistance, pull up, if I have at
least 50% seeds in my hand would that maturity, if dropped in the field during harvest, germinate next year....considering we are only
talking about the ability of the seed to germinate if the right external conditions occur?

Thanks,
Mark
 
It's not the contact, it's when does a seed possess the necessary traits to create a new plant. I have a neighbor that runs a summer haying operation and he leaves his last cutting, allowing it to mature in the fall. In the spring he discs the plants with remaining seeds plus what fell on the ground in the winter, in the March time line...when it's dry enough to get in the field and come June he has a bumper crop.

I want to do the same thing but with a winter, not summer crop, so the time line is much shorter...like the seed pods are prolific right now but I want to wait till they are mature enough to make me a winter crop (field density improvement) after I disc them this fall. I want to hay the existing crop as soon as the fields dry enough and mother nature shuts the spiggot off so I can harvest it and get it dried enough to roll without spoilage.

Thanks for the reply.
 
Thinking about what I just said and want to do, if nothing else when you can gently pull a hand full of seeds off a stem. The haying operation will scatter a lot of seeds since they are ready to leave the plant and that may be the answer (with weather's help).....since I want seeds deposited on the soil for field improvement.
 
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