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West Texas | My kinfolk refer to it as "scenically-challenged", Bill, but they're also town people, so what do they know.
I do have trees around the house for shade and windbreak, and that's pretty common out here on the Llano. See a tree, there's either a house there, or there once was a house. You can pretty much tell the age of a home by the size of the shade trees.
For this particular bluestem field, we tried a drill, and planted in a crosshatch pattern and aimed to plant 4 lbs/acre PLS. Worked just as well as the field I planted with a cotton planter using fuzzy-cottonseed hoppers or the one we broadcast and rolled. Equal success, no matter the method or variety. Not a very fussy plant, but some varieties take longer to set than others.
Don't scrimp on the pounds per acre.
The info I have on the OWB indicates it spreads from a Mother plant to fill in gaps between other Mother plants. I believe it propagates by seed. Once a Mother plant is established, attempting to fill in bare spots with another planting results in something resembling autotoxicity. I guess these Mamas are out to protect their turf.
Oh yeah ... it's pretty dry here ... humidity tends to be 20% or less. All my baling is done in the morning, when RH is at least 55% to start with. Below that, and I'm baling straw.
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makin' hay
