Sunflower question on plates for JD air planter

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Sunflower question on plates for JD air planter

Postby Duck$$$ » Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:26 am

What is the bes type of plate to you use on JD air planters for sunflowers ?
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Postby Duck$$$ » Mon Apr 24, 2006 3:26 pm

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Postby JimAire » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:43 pm

I have used both cotton plates and corn plates. Last year I used corn plates with a transmission setting of 20-27 and it came out to about 9# per acre. Be sure to count your seed per foot.
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Postby dukbum » Mon Apr 24, 2006 6:34 pm

man i aint no professional farmer but i gots a john deer number 51 2 row planter and i use my corn plates to plant sunflowers and of course da corn and it does fine :) that might not be of any help but my 2-cents :roll: good luck!
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Postby Sigmaster » Fri Apr 28, 2006 8:55 pm

they make a seed disk for sunflowers. Otherwise use the smallest corn plate you have and LOW vacuum. I shoot for 23K seeds per acre.

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