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Eastern Arkansas | It won't help now, but have you ever considered 4 seed hill drop, instead of a drill pattern. On my farm and in my area the hill drop seems to be very forgiving on planting depth because the 4 seeds have a lot of pushing power. I also have a lot of fields with wildly different soil types from one end to the other and I like to plant at a depth where every seed is in the moisture.
As far as fixing the row now , I wouldn't worry about it. Cotton is very forgiving and will compensate very well. I picked a neighbors field a couple years ago that had a 2 row then 1 skip pattern. It was dry land and right next to an irrigated field of mine. He made 200 Lbs more than me.
If anybody sees the field and ask about it tell them it is an experiment.
It's probably to late now, and it would be hard to do on one row, but if I have a whole field with swollen stems and starting to turn down like in your picture I have ran a rotory hoe over it to break up the top layer of crust to help emergence.
Edited by reedfarmer 5/22/2013 13:04
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cotton planted too deep
