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I plant my garden with a JD 246 planter. But I always forget to look for plates for popcorn. This year I designed one in Solidworks and made a set with my 3d printer. It took 13 hours to print 2 thin plates and 2 filler plates. And it took 30 seconds to plant 2 rows of popcorn. At least my back isn't sore.

The cells aren't perfect. About 50/50 singles and doubles. Occasionally 3 or 4 seeds at once.


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Does that popcorn 🍿 yield pretty well ? You must have access to quite the 3D printer if you can make something like that
 
Popcorn seeds also vary in size so that is not too bad. This may be crazy but wasn't there a plate for soy beens? I remember my dad trying to find several size plates for stuff like that. Buck wheat takes a special plate too. He had trouble finding plates for sweet corn because it is much smaller than cow / horse corn. If you want to try again make the little curved slots just ever so smaller. I remember some of the special plates had a little slope at the leading edge. Are your fingers nice and square and springs strong enough. Havent looked at a planter in more than 40 plus years. Fantastic what you can do with a 3D printer. Will they last a whole field or just enough to get the job done? Looks like fun.
 
I dont know the yield but its heavy. They only fill the trailers about 3/4 and still overload.
 
I?ve got several plates for JD two row planters,but i?m Not sure what there for. Is there somewhere to check the plate numbers.?
 
Just a bit more. I grew popcorn maybe 17 or18 years ago. Entered it in the farm fair just for giggles. Several people were saying how sickly it looked for corn. After you told them it was popcorn they are standing there asking "you can really grow it"???
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All plates had that sloped edge to the cells. And Deere did make I think 3 different bean plates. Don't have my plate book avaible now. Then the plastic plates had 3 different sizes for beans but cell size did not match Deeres cast plate sizes. And for beans Deere had a different floor plate with one side a wide grove for beans (narrow grove was for corn) but you could use the flat side of either plate for beans or for larger beans or heavier population put the wide grove toward the plate. Then if you wanted to measure out single seeds you could use a round cell plate and made in dozens of cell sizes. I never did try that but I had all the cast or plastic bean plates. And would very the plate combination depending on a very small bean to medium size bean to large bean.
 
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