Did you have a follow up vid to this? I didn't see it in your profile. Thanks! I have an area of my property that is in a flood zone. If you dig a foot down there is plenty of water. Thinking about digging my own pond with our excavator. Just not sure how to go about it. We have a seasonal creek that runs along side it and through a culvert.
I've planted millet lots of times on Labor Day weekend... always does well! As long as you don't have a crazy early frost, you should be fine. You got some neat clips on the game camera!
Thanks Joel! Hoping with the fertilizer I will at least have fully formed heads by the first frost. Would you hit it with another application of fertilizer?
@@HokeOutdoors not sure it’s needed. I’d suspect that pond bottom is pretty rich in nutrient. Maybe a bio stimulate... that would assist the plant in uptake.
Great video, debating whether or not to do a video on "Duck Farming". I have some content from last year and this year. Our planted swamp went from normally holding a dozen woodies in November to over 200 this past year for the opener. Only one change, we drained and planted it...
We did the same thing at a lot of our low areas in South Carolina this year. Planting this late yields more food for the birds come duck season, however the army worms will make there way in there and wipe it out in short order. I’d check it regularly for army worms if you have the time. I’m excited to see the progression!
I appreciate the info and I will certainly keep that in mind and try to get out there a little more than I was planning on. Hope your spots that you planted are looking good!
In South Carolina. I drained and acre and a half pond down to expose about half an acre. I had red root flatsedge, smartweed, rice cutgrass, and fall witchgrass grow. Then I planted Japanese millet late, just like you. Slender spikerush is a problem though. It grew in-between the other moist soil plants and the millet couldn't get soil contact there. The millet coming up looks like its in danger of getting destroyed by deer. But I'm real happy with the moist soil plants.
That sounds like a great mix of moist-soil plants and I hope your millet makes it as well! Thinking I'm going to let this come up in moist-soil next year if I have the proper water control
I have a 25 acre wetland/huge pond/ series of sloughs that I have been working on the last 2 years. I draw the water down in the ealy summer and plant jap millet in all the sloughs and shallow areas. There's also a ton of penn. smartweed and wild millet that comes up to. Last year it helped a little bit, but this past season...holy crap. I have seen more ducks there than I have ever seen in my life put together. In our early season there were around 200 to 300 using it, a mix of woodies mallards and teal. Then we got cold weather right after new years and it went to about 500-700 primarily mallards, during most of January, but now for the last month, there has been 500-1000 birds that pretty much stay there during the day, but when the sun goes down there's around 2000 ducks or more that comes in to feed at night. It turns into a loud jungle after sunset. The hunting season is over obviously but I love going up there and watching them come pouring in at sunset. The feeling that this is the payoff of my work during the hot humid 100 degrees days walking in mud ,fighting off mosquitoes, humid as all hell, spraying herbicide on all the undesirables, planting millet and rice, and everything else. I really cant put into words how awesome it has been. Cant wait to get started again this year. Hopefully it gets I little better every year. That's the plan anyway
That's awesome! Hard to find a better feeling than when all that hard work finally pays off. Hope you can get the ducks in there again like that next season!
I used to plant 300 acres of 500 acres of millet and have learned for the that moist soil management is more productive. It does look good to sit over a field of nice headed up millet
We get lots of ducks that use our pond both Spring and Autumn, pass through. We manage the pond for fishing, not hunting though. What we did last Spring and again this Spring was to plant pin oak trees. I get them free from my parents yard, literally thousands pop up each spring. We have put in well over two hundred now, 50% seem to make the next year. Put fencing around them now to keep animals off them. Will be food for years once they produce. You have a perfect setup for doing pin oaks too. Ask around, am sure you can find for free as we have.
I planted bout 3ac of golden millet on two ponds in central TX. They are doing great just getting into 5 leaf phase. Ur vids have helped a bunch! I can’t control water level so just have to rely on Mother Nature
I planted some millet on a lake in north Texas on public land hit about 9 spots all of September. Experimented with broadcasting on bare ground and then turned in some spots with a metal rake. I'd say 70% or so on broadcasting and nearly 100% on the stuff we worked in. My home lake can rise or fall 5 to 10 feet in level so we had to plant and different elevations because we have no control of water storage. Big gamble just have to get lucky.
I broadcast rice in beaver swamp in early August. The seed on mud and tree tussits took but what hit water never germinated. I think the woodies ate it. Either way it helped my little duck hole. When the hurricane rains came in September the headed out rice was perfect. 🦆
I planted millet back in April here in California after we pulled water off of the ponds. I had about 70% of the seed sprout.. not bad considering that I wasn’t able to irrigate it all and we never get shit for rain out here. I’m about to broadcast 50 lbs of wild rice seed next week after we flood up so we’ll see if the rice takes better than the millet.
Has it already dropped it's seed heads or was it a long maturity millet? I've got a little wild rice as well that I'm going to try, hope yours takes well and keep me updated on it if you can!
@@HokeOutdoors my plants are still standing with the seed heads still intact. The seeds are a golden brown color. I’m curious to see how long the millet lasts after the birds find it.
The rice is supposed to mature and seed out in 75 days which will provide feed when the migrators get here in December. That’s if everything goes right.. I hear growing rice is either a hit or miss.
There was good germination and the plants made it to about two feet by the end of September, but we had a relatively cold October and it completely stunted them. I kept the trail cams up there all winter and the only waterfowl that used the pond were hooded mergansers, although there was a big flock of turkeys that fed on the millet for a couple weeks in November. I may try it again this year depending on when I get back to VA
Did you have a follow up vid to this? I didn't see it in your profile. Thanks!
I have an area of my property that is in a flood zone. If you dig a foot down there is plenty of water. Thinking about digging my own pond with our excavator. Just not sure how to go about it. We have a seasonal creek that runs along side it and through a culvert.
I've planted millet lots of times on Labor Day weekend... always does well! As long as you don't have a crazy early frost, you should be fine. You got some neat clips on the game camera!
Thanks Joel! Hoping with the fertilizer I will at least have fully formed heads by the first frost. Would you hit it with another application of fertilizer?
@@HokeOutdoors not sure it’s needed. I’d suspect that pond bottom is pretty rich in nutrient. Maybe a bio stimulate... that would assist the plant in uptake.
I'd checked some out last year but didn't pull the trigger, I'll have to look into them again
Great video, debating whether or not to do a video on "Duck Farming". I have some content from last year and this year. Our planted swamp went from normally holding a dozen woodies in November to over 200 this past year for the opener. Only one change, we drained and planted it...
Definitely do duck farming/management content. There's not enough on UA-cam. I watch all I can.
Wow that is an incredible transformation! Would love to see you create some video on duck farming if you have the time!
We did the same thing at a lot of our low areas in South Carolina this year. Planting this late yields more food for the birds come duck season, however the army worms will make there way in there and wipe it out in short order. I’d check it regularly for army worms if you have the time. I’m excited to see the progression!
I appreciate the info and I will certainly keep that in mind and try to get out there a little more than I was planning on. Hope your spots that you planted are looking good!
In South Carolina. I drained and acre and a half pond down to expose about half an acre. I had red root flatsedge, smartweed, rice cutgrass, and fall witchgrass grow. Then I planted Japanese millet late, just like you. Slender spikerush is a problem though. It grew in-between the other moist soil plants and the millet couldn't get soil contact there. The millet coming up looks like its in danger of getting destroyed by deer. But I'm real happy with the moist soil plants.
That sounds like a great mix of moist-soil plants and I hope your millet makes it as well! Thinking I'm going to let this come up in moist-soil next year if I have the proper water control
I have a 25 acre wetland/huge pond/ series of sloughs that I have been working on the last 2 years. I draw the water down in the ealy summer and plant jap millet in all the sloughs and shallow areas. There's also a ton of penn. smartweed and wild millet that comes up to. Last year it helped a little bit, but this past season...holy crap. I have seen more ducks there than I have ever seen in my life put together. In our early season there were around 200 to 300 using it, a mix of woodies mallards and teal. Then we got cold weather right after new years and it went to about 500-700 primarily mallards, during most of January, but now for the last month, there has been 500-1000 birds that pretty much stay there during the day, but when the sun goes down there's around 2000 ducks or more that comes in to feed at night. It turns into a loud jungle after sunset. The hunting season is over obviously but I love going up there and watching them come pouring in at sunset. The feeling that this is the payoff of my work during the hot humid 100 degrees days walking in mud ,fighting off mosquitoes, humid as all hell, spraying herbicide on all the undesirables, planting millet and rice, and everything else. I really cant put into words how awesome it has been. Cant wait to get started again this year. Hopefully it gets I little better every year. That's the plan anyway
That's awesome! Hard to find a better feeling than when all that hard work finally pays off. Hope you can get the ducks in there again like that next season!
I used to plant 300 acres of 500 acres of millet and have learned for the that moist soil management is more productive. It does look good to sit over a field of nice headed up millet
Definitely going to try letting moist soil plants come up at this spot next year!
We get lots of ducks that use our pond both Spring and Autumn, pass through. We manage the pond for fishing, not hunting though. What we did last Spring and again this Spring was to plant pin oak trees. I get them free from my parents yard, literally thousands pop up each spring. We have put in well over two hundred now, 50% seem to make the next year. Put fencing around them now to keep animals off them. Will be food for years once they produce. You have a perfect setup for doing pin oaks too. Ask around, am sure you can find for free as we have.
That sounds like a good setup! I'll have to look into procuring some oaks
@@HokeOutdoors Not just any oaks, Pin Oaks.... best wishes
I planted bout 3ac of golden millet on two ponds in central TX. They are doing great just getting into 5 leaf phase. Ur vids have helped a bunch! I can’t control water level so just have to rely on Mother Nature
That's awesome! I bet you'll have a bunch of cool stuff coming through with you being in that area. Hope everything works out well for with the water
I planted some millet on a lake in north Texas on public land hit about 9 spots all of September. Experimented with broadcasting on bare ground and then turned in some spots with a metal rake. I'd say 70% or so on broadcasting and nearly 100% on the stuff we worked in. My home lake can rise or fall 5 to 10 feet in level so we had to plant and different elevations because we have no control of water storage. Big gamble just have to get lucky.
Sweet Virginia, Mt Momma… hahaha. Keep them coming
I broadcast rice in beaver swamp in early August. The seed on mud and tree tussits took but what hit water never germinated. I think the woodies ate it. Either way it helped my little duck hole. When the hurricane rains came in September the headed out rice was perfect. 🦆
That's great to hear! The millet I planted this year didn't make it in time because of an early frost
How are you going to get water back in this pond ?
Sweet video 👍🦆
Thanks brother!
Looks like that will be a good hole enjoyed it Thomas
Unfortunately it didn't work out last year but I may try it again this year
I planted millet back in April here in California after we pulled water off of the ponds. I had about 70% of the seed sprout.. not bad considering that I wasn’t able to irrigate it all and we never get shit for rain out here.
I’m about to broadcast 50 lbs of wild rice seed next week after we flood up so we’ll see if the rice takes better than the millet.
Has it already dropped it's seed heads or was it a long maturity millet? I've got a little wild rice as well that I'm going to try, hope yours takes well and keep me updated on it if you can!
@@HokeOutdoors my plants are still standing with the seed heads still intact. The seeds are a golden brown color. I’m curious to see how long the millet lasts after the birds find it.
The rice is supposed to mature and seed out in 75 days which will provide feed when the migrators get here in December. That’s if everything goes right.. I hear growing rice is either a hit or miss.
That's what I've heard as well. Are y'all warm enough in CA to grow it during the winter?
@@HokeOutdoors yeah we can pretty much hunt in a t shirt through November. High’s in the 70’s, low’s in the 40’s
We plant as late as late September and it heads up in 30 days. It is miss alluvial dirt; so it’s very fertile
I'm going to go check mine tomorrow but at 30 days it was only shin high this year unfortunately
Looks like it'll really be a sweet deal... good job
Thanks Kraig! Hopefully it turns out
Do the deer eat the seed heads up?
Like the music choice at the end. 👍🏻
Thanks! It's a new favorite song of mine for videos
Yo good vid. Probably going to plant millet we will see
Thanks brother! You should have a decent bit longer window till first frost depending on where you are in NC
@@HokeOutdoors yea near the coast so yea
Love your vids
Thank you!
Where are you guys at in Va?
This is in Cumberland
How’d this turn out?
There was good germination and the plants made it to about two feet by the end of September, but we had a relatively cold October and it completely stunted them. I kept the trail cams up there all winter and the only waterfowl that used the pond were hooded mergansers, although there was a big flock of turkeys that fed on the millet for a couple weeks in November. I may try it again this year depending on when I get back to VA
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