Alligator Brand 13700020Click To Copy Tifleaf 3 Pearl Millet Seed 50# Certified

Tifleaf Pearl Millet is generally used as a temporary summer pasture crop or in some areas as a food crop. It is a tall, erect, annual bunchgrass growing form 6-15 feet in height. It is particularly well adapted to nutrient-poor, sandy soils in low rainfall areas. Stems are pithy and leaves are long-pointed with finely serrated margins. The plant tillers freely and produces an inflorescence with a dense spike-like panicle 14" long and 1" or less in diameter. The mature panicle is brownish in color, and spikelets are borne in fascicles of two, surrounded by a cluster of bristles. Each spikelet has two florets; one of which is generally staminate. The upper floret is fertile, with the caryopsis (seed) being enclosed by the lemma and palea from which it threshes freed during harvest. Pearl Millets are generally cross-pollinated. Several varieties and hybrids have been developed. Uses of Pearl Millet include hate, pastures, silage, seed crops and feed. Planting rates for Tifleaf are 25 to 30 lbs per acre.