November Flowering OSR

[hallshoney]

Maybe in france cant see it here brother inlaw grows around 550 acres of and they finished drilling 3 weeks ago.

 

[Andy Duff]

It could be mustard or it could be purple sprouting broccoli. My PSB which should be ready next April is sprouting and flowering now!

 

[mbc]

http://www.beekeepingforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=14380
definately autumn sown rape flowering now round here

 

[BB King]

august/ sown oilseed rape will not flower in the same calendar year. The flowering plants in the fields will be charlock - yellow or runch - white. Both are brassica species weeds which commonly infest rape crops and are difficult to control with selective herbicides as rape is also a brassica.

 

[gavin]

Could also be some sort of spring rape contamination in a winter OSR crop. Farm-saved seed that had crossed with a nearby spring rape field, or a field with soil carrying dormant spring OSR from a previous crop.

Occasionally a farmer or seed merchant can mix up seed stocks and sow spring rape in September by mistake. Then the whole field rushes into flower and gets cut down by the frosts.

G.

PS mbc's patchy rape field in the other thread will be one of the options in my first paragraph.

 

[Hombre]

I understand that field beans are being dropped by some farmers as the price of rape and wheat is significantly high to make them the crops to grow . . .

Don't know where all the nitrogen is going to come from unless it's added from sewage waste etc.

 

[Somerford]

no, it was definitely OSR - too tall for mustard, and it had been drilled in, not the tailings after the combine......

guess it'll have to be ploughed in and resown

also it stank like OSR !

Happy Guy Fawkes Night - do bees have ears ?

S

 

[hallshoney]

no, it was definitely OSR - too tall for mustard, and it had been drilled in, not the tailings after the combine......

guess it'll have to be ploughed in and resown

also it stank like OSR !

Happy Guy Fawkes Night - do bees have ears ?

S

Try google image. charlock plant look identical to OSR as same family

 

[mbc]

its f....ing rape , ok
sown at the end of Aug beginning of Sept normally due to flower end of March beginning of April ( round here ) but two to three inches high in foliage and some flowering
I'll post a picie if I can manage the pwter work

 

[hallshoney]

its f....ing rape , ok

Calm down dear no need to swear we are all have a right to a piont of view. I could show you half a dozen fields round here that are out in flower all are pasture reseeds never had OSR sown on them yet they bright yellow.

 

[oliver90owner]

The missing letters 'lower'. Nothing else, surely? Wouldn't want to upset the touchy ones on the forum!.

The stuff I saw was a strip barely 1/2 metre wide at the most and about 7 or 8 metres long adjacent to a road hedge, but away from the edge of an approx 6-8 hectare field, so not a game crop. Could have been other flora than drilled, but didnt look like it. The field was sown very early and the crop is 'well on' - much further on than some adjacent fields. I'm not going to go and inspect, because I can't be a----d. As far as I am concerned it is autumn sown OSR gone mad. Some trees are dropping leaves while new leaves are developing/unfurling - yes, on the same tree! Peculiar weather!!

RAB

 

[MuswellMetro]

august/ sown oilseed rape will not flower in the same calendar year. The flowering plants in the fields will be charlock - yellow or runch - white. Both are brassica species weeds which commonly infest rape crops and are difficult to control with selective herbicides as rape is also a brassica.

well i talked to the farmer who owns the fields , both fieilds are Auugust/ first week of September sown and a standard low euric acid food grade OSR all 0-0 certified

all his fields are now ahead of the usual season, he expects an early crop from them and that they will just re flower but 5% lower yeild

 

[mbc]

The missing letters 'lower'. Nothing else, surely? Wouldn't want to upset the touchy ones on the forum!.


RAB

Quite RAB, what else ?
Flowering rape of course !

 

[MuswellMetro]

A bit misty but this feild was wheat last year, now a yellow glow

it is the drilled OSR that is flower not reseeded as it is all in straight rows

farmer said it did the same last year but not previus years

 

[Somerford]

I've got next week off (HURRAY!!!!) so might take a pic of the offending fields too...good idea, why didn't I think of it ?!!

regards

S

 

[MuswellMetro]

The flowers are very near to the ground not poking their long tall flower spikes up so not strays reseeds growing all summer. it is the drilled plants that are flowering in lines with stunted flower spikes

 

[Jimmy]

Similar growth of OSR here in SE Worcestershire, some fields look like they think it's late March/early April. Will be interesting to see how it fares if we get heavy snow this year.
It seems to be variety dependent - another field that I think was sown in August and is well established only has ankle high dark green plants. The early flowering plants do look a touch lighter coloured compared to the plants showing only vegetative growth.
I guess they are showing the difference between being day length dependent and temperature dependent.

 

[paulgid]

there is a feild at the back of my house in flower and i know it is osr as the farmer told me

 

[Haughton Honey]

Funny you should say that, I saw quite a large field of it near Cholmondeley in Cheshire last Wednesday. But I didn't think to stop and check for bees

They were on it last week on a warm day. I have an apiary at Cholmondeley!

 

[Gardenbees]

I've noticed OSR in flower around here (Gloucester area), mostly "volunteer" plants and strays. For some reason it isn't attracting insects very much, either because it isn't producing as much nectar this time around, or just because the beasties aren't so interested right now.