Viku Jules

Joseph Lofthouse wrote:
I wonder if the other farmer's planted earlier in the fall?

Same time. +- couple days

Seeding rate normal, as always.

I can't understand if it's possible for phosphorus deficiency to show so early, at 4 leaves stage. Plant is small, there is phosphorus from fertiliser, and for cover crops. I think i'll try phosphorus foliar with manganese, zinc and urea, maybe i'll manage to get some spring tillers.

Ok, now it's still too cold, I get it. But they already have 5 leaves, and at this stage, they must have tree tillers. Or maybe I understand wheat development wrong - 3 leaves 1 tiller, 4 leaves 2 tillers and so on. All farmers in our area have beautiful wheats, three-four tillers, very hungry after warm winter, but they'll be ok. I'm the only one with regenerative practices, so it must be a fault in my growing program.

Hello. First, my English sucks, sorry about that. So, second regenerative year and my winter wheats have no tillers. Soil organic matter 2,2%, soluble phosphorus 98-108mg/kg, soluble potassium 180-280mg/kg, pH 6,7-7,2.Rotation - winter rapeseed, winter barley, two months of cover crop (mustard, terminated with disc cultivator at flowering), and now winter wheat. 60kg of MAP, row placed, at sowing. At three leaves stage foliar - copper 60g/ha, manganese 160g/ha, zinc 40g/ha. Now, after vernalization, about 70% of plants have no tillers, a couple of very small new roots and growing new leaf (sixth leaf is at about 40%). They are purple, so I suspect deficiency of phosphorus. Other 30% plants have 2-3 tillers, big beautiful new roots, but are purple too. Soil temperature at ~5cm depth is +2 degree Celsius. Any thoughts? Phosphorus deficiency because of small amount of fertiliser? Bad distribution (too few fertilizer pellets per meter)? Or deficiency of nitrogen?