Fungicides will save lentils

[sumdumguy]

Came back to Old Agriville. Breath of fresh air.

I went out for a lentil tour yesterday. Man, the fields that weren't sprayed with fungicide are a write-off. They might get 3-10 bushels of mottled seed. Some fields around here are not worth the effort to combine. The fields sprayed 2 and 3 times, are filling to the top. No question - even lentils on lentils that were sprayed 3X, not bad at all. It's an eye-opener.

[JDGreen]

And here it's a different story.. Everything sprayed or not sprayed will be poor at best. You can spray 3 times and still after 9-11" of rain in first 3 weeks of July the lentils are toast.

[farmaholic]

I would have no problem "giving the crops everything it requires and multiple times if needed", but ****en pay me for it when I produce the crop even if it is in abundance......I'm sick of being punished for success!

How can you tell its getting to "that" time of year for me! Expect it to get worse before better. You ready for the tsunami of negative waves farming101? I'm going to drag everyone out to sea with me. Misery loves company....maybe I'll be lonely?

[ado089]

My organic lentils on oat stubble have no disease.

[sumdumguy]

This hot weather with rain everyday didn't give the lentils a chance to dry out under the canopy. The same happened to peas in a community garden near me. Once the stems are diseased, they become so weak that they can't hold the plant up, causing more of a problem because air can't get under to dry them out. We like spraying with the plane because it seems to blast it hard enough to stick some fungicide to the bottom of the leaves and stems instead of misting the tops. even though a lot of our stems don't look pretty, the root seeems to be feeding the plant.

[iceman]

Sprayed or not sprayed are all screwed.

A plane the best coverage into the canopy

I says pardon

Iceman out

[Klause]

Sprayed ours once. 30 pods and another 15 to 20 flowers nice and green to tge bottom lots of rihzobia


Pods are mostly 2s some 3s a few 1s



They are getting super weedy now though pissing me off.



May have to spray for aphids

[sumdumguy]

This is the first year that we were at all concerned about aphids. But have you noticed no diamond back moths or army worm in Canola? Now that's a bonus. Good Luck Klause, watch them closely. You may need to give them another shot if they are soggy underneath.

[Klause]

Bordeaux

[Klause]

Bordeaux


Nothing in canola so far