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Booyah blend and Whitetail Institute's Pure attraction

livetohunt228

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Hey all! Hope everyone is having a good summer. Was looking for a little feedback from my fellow hunters. Looking at putting down Horny Buck Seed's Booyah blend and Whitetail Institute's Pure Attraction. An acre of each. Anyone have any luck with either of these 2 blends? Also looking to make my own clover blend, also an acre. Thinking about Ladino and Crimson Clover with some wheat and rye mixed in. Was just going to get these seeds from my local feed store. I understand a lot of research and experimental stuff goes into developing the name brand seeds but do you guys think the name brand seed blends are really any better than buying seeds and creating your own blends? What do you guys/gals think of my clovers, wheat and rye mix? Would you add anything or change anything? Any recommendations on how much of each to do an acre? I'm new to food plotting so forgive me for all the questions that might sound stupid. I know the manufacturers put a recommended planting date for each seed but when do you guy/gals think I'd be best to put in the ground? I'm in Southern OH on the OH, KY border. Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
 

bigten05

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90% of the guys here buy there seed from a seed store and make there own blends saves lots of money that way. good luck to you, either way you go it should work.
 

MK111

"Happy Hunting Grounds in the Sky"
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Never heard of the Booyah blend so looked it up. What bothered me was the list of seed and the last one was 'weeds'.

By chance I today ordered WTI forage oats. And grandparayoutdoors.com frosty delight.

A good forum for food plots is deerhunterforum.com
This forum saved a lot of the old QDMA forum when they shut it down in 2016.

I'm is SW Ohio also.

Plant food plots and the deer will come. It took the 3rd year before the deer eat all the turnip bulbs. The first 2 years all the tops were eaten then the 3rd year also all the bulbs were eaten out of 1.2 ac. I think the deer has to learn to eat a new food.
For 21 yrs I never seen over 3 deer in a group on my farm now I see up to 16 deer feeding in my food plots.
 

MK111

"Happy Hunting Grounds in the Sky"
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90% of the guys here buy there seed from a seed store and make there own blends saves lots of money that way. good luck to you, either way you go it should work.

I'm one of the 10% who buy from WTI and grandparayoutdoors.com.
I spend couple extra dollars and get what I what and need. I tried other common seeds for 2 years and had failures both years.
At 73 I can't waste a year on saving $10-20 on seed and having a half ass crop.
 

Bigslam51

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Where do you think all the farmers get their alfalfa, clover, wheat, and rye blends? It sure as hell isn't from whitetail institute. I've counted up to 30 deer feeding in the alfalfa on one of the farms I hunt, crop looked good to me.
 

MK111

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I only have to satisfy one person. ME and my way works for a extra couple dollars.

I watch deer walk out of the brush lines into my neighbor's horse hay field. They don't stop and walk straight to my food plots to feed I know I have better deer attracting deer food.
 
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livetohunt228

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Never heard of the Booyah blend so looked it up. What bothered me was the list of seed and the last one was 'weeds'.

By chance I today ordered WTI forage oats. And grandparayoutdoors.com frosty delight.

A good forum for food plots is deerhunterforum.com
This forum saved a lot of the old QDMA forum when they shut it down in 2016.

I'm is SW Ohio also.

Plant food plots and the deer will come. It took the 3rd year before the deer eat all the turnip bulbs. The first 2 years all the tops were eaten then the 3rd year also all the bulbs were eaten out of 1.2 ac. I think the deer has to learn to eat a new food.
For 21 yrs I never seen over 3 deer in a group on my farm now I see up to 16 deer feeding in my food plots.
Thanks for the info, greatly appreciated! The Booyah blend is that hunter Chris Brackett's blend by Horny Buck Seed. I watched a video he did when he was mowing it earlier this summer and it looked amazing. I know a lot of the brands put fillers in the blends but weeds as one of the ingredients is definitely not a good thing. We all battle too many of them already. Lol. Good luck with your seeds. Keep me/us posted
 

livetohunt228

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I'm one of the 10% who buy from WTI and grandparayoutdoors.com.
I spend couple extra dollars and get what I what and need. I tried other common seeds for 2 years and had failures both years.
At 73 I can't waste a year on saving $10-20 on seed and having a half ass crop.
What seed blends from them have you used and had success with?
 

Iowa_Buckeye

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If it has the words 'Booyah' AND 'Horney' in the title, it must be good!!!

Your clover idea sounds good. We also have good luck with Alice White Clover. Just remember to mow off the rye/wheat before it heads out in the spring. You may also want to consider frost seeding it again in the spring to thicken it up.

As for your other 2 acres, I would get a few different types of brassica seed from your dealer and maybe do a half acre of each (skip paying for the marketing of the pretty bag, the seeds in it are no better). If you do mix them, they may compete with each other and you may also not know which one of the mix the deer favor. If they are split up, it is easier to tell.

We have real good luck with Purple Top Turnips and Bonar Forage Rape. Also decent luck with Groundhog Radish and Dwarf Essex Rape. There are lots of brassica varieties, so lots of options. These types of seeds are cheap by the pound so it is not much of an investment to do some experimentation.

If you want a green source for early season, grab a bag or two of seed oats while you are at the seed store (and don't pay 4x the cost for the Buck Forage Oats - they are no better, just marketed to hunters).

And plant per the recommended rate!!! When we first starting plotting we thought 'more has to be better' with our brassicas. But what happened was it was planted so dense that the tubers didn't develop any size. Set your seeder so you don't really think enough is coming out and walk the field a few times vs. opening it's throat too wide and emptying it too quickly.

Seed bed prep is very critical for small clover/brassica seed. Work the ground up, pack it, spread the seed, and pack again. Oats/rye/wheat should be lightly drug in though prior to packing, but pretty much grow no matter what you do (pretty hard to screw them up.....).

Have fun whatever you decide to do!
 

giles

Cull buck specialist
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I hope it works out for you man. I personally like to keep my money local. Them guys in that drive-through have to sell you shit that works to keep the doors open. Who cares if the bag doesn't come with direction and fact pictures.
 

Just 1 More

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I only have to satisfy one person. ME and my way works for a extra couple dollars.

I watch deer walk out of the brush lines into my neighbor's horse hay field. They don't stop and walk straight to my food plots to feed I know I have better deer attracting deer food.

I'm with ya on this.. I've planted a lot of different stuff over the years and i've gotten my best results with Whitetail Institute clover and WGI Shot plot & Pro Graze
 

livetohunt228

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If it has the words 'Booyah' AND 'Horney' in the title, it must be good!!!

Your clover idea sounds good. We also have good luck with Alice White Clover. Just remember to mow off the rye/wheat before it heads out in the spring. You may also want to consider frost seeding it again in the spring to thicken it up.

As for your other 2 acres, I would get a few different types of brassica seed from your dealer and maybe do a half acre of each (skip paying for the marketing of the pretty bag, the seeds in it are no better). If you do mix them, they may compete with each other and you may also not know which one of the mix the deer favor. If they are split up, it is easier to tell.

We have real good luck with Purple Top Turnips and Bonar Forage Rape. Also decent luck with Groundhog Radish and Dwarf Essex Rape. There are lots of brassica varieties, so lots of options. These types of seeds are cheap by the pound so it is not much of an investment to do some experimentation.

If you want a green source for early season, grab a bag or two of seed oats while you are at the seed store (and don't pay 4x the cost for the Buck Forage Oats - they are no better, just marketed to hunters).

And plant per the recommended rate!!! When we first starting plotting we thought 'more has to be better' with our brassicas. But what happened was it was planted so dense that the tubers didn't develop any size. Set your seeder so you don't really think enough is coming out and walk the field a few times vs. opening it's throat too wide and emptying it too quickly.

Seed bed prep is very critical for small clover/brassica seed. Work the ground up, pack it, spread the seed, and pack again. Oats/rye/wheat should be lightly drug in though prior to packing, but pretty much grow no matter what you do (pretty hard to screw them up.....).

Have fun whatever you decide to do!
Thanks SO much for all the info and suggestions... It's greatly appreciated!