Sorghum at Seed Production phase, Any cause for concern?
Hello Hive
Happy new morning to us all, I'm glad and happy to see that our guinea corn are now at seed Production phase having see how much these have giving us every cause for concern about a week ago.
It wasn't visible that the guinea corns were already producing panicles and some tiny grains already until I pulled down a stalk of it to observe the tip of the plant. In no less than a week from the time I have checked this the panicles are now very much visible on the top of the tall plant as you can see here.
The major reason we were worried about this is because the rains have gone and any crop that hasn't started producing it's food at this time will no longer be able to do so as the ground is getting dried really fast.
Hopefully now that it has gotten to this stage it can utilize the available moisture in the soil to complete it's seed production stage. The rains have gone already and the dry seasons have taking over. Even though we are still expectant if Dew as another form of moisture that waters the ground, this isn't totally certain and doesn't have much effect on crops as dews often times do not wet the ground as much as the rains will do.
The location of the Sorghum farm isn't such a one that irrigation farming can be possible on this as sometimes we do deploy irrigation system whenever certain crops like rice is going bad totally due to lack of rain. One may never be able to wet the ground enough to have any positive effect for guinea corn.
Our guinea corn has produced really well and the height doesn't cease to amaze me unlike corn guinea corn takes longer time to grow and produce seeds about 6 months while we have corn that takes not more than 4months. We have constantly argued at home about which one producing more food when cultivated on specific area of land.
Our corns didn't do well to produce foods for us this year hence we are relying on getting as much food from the Sorghum in order to utilize them for the purpose for which we would have used the corn plants since both can be used interchangeably for similar purpose.
It's going to be another day and work at the farm today as we love to get to the farm early to accomplish one or two things before the scourging sun sends us back home as temperatures are usually very high these days.
