🌾 Triticale
Field Crops · growing reference
| Days to maturity | 55 days – 220 days, by type |
|---|---|
| Germination | 7 days |
| Planted as | lb |
| Water | ~0.60–1 in a week |
When to plant
In USDA zone 6, for example: Plant around Mar 18 — as soon as the ground can be worked.
| Spring | Fall | |
|---|---|---|
| Zone 3 | Apr 17 | Sep 6 |
| Zone 4 | Apr 9 | Sep 11 |
| Zone 5 | Mar 29 | Sep 24 |
| Zone 6 | Mar 18 | Oct 6 |
| Zone 7 | Mar 4 | Oct 27 |
| Zone 8 | Feb 15 | Nov 11 |
| Zone 9 | Jan 23 | Nov 26 |
Dates are the typical window for each zone's average frost dates — your own last frost can differ by a couple of weeks. Zone 10 and warmer is effectively frost-free: plant to the season, not the frost. Southern Hemisphere: shift six months.
Triticale Uses
- Forage · 60 days · 100–200 lbs of hay/plant — Lush, palatable graze or silage — more tonnage than rye, softer than wheat; the popular use.
- Cover · 55 days · 30–60 lbs of green manure/plant — A hardy cereal cover — rye-tough biomass and weed suppression; terminate before heading.
- Grain · 220 days · 15–30 lbs/plant — Winter triticale run to grain — feed and flour; fall-sown, harvested the next summer.
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