If anyone is looking to grow hulless oats, seedsave.org has a “Mother Oats Mass Composite” that contains considerable diversity. You can find the mix here: Oats, Hulless | seedsave.org
The mix appears to be mostly hulless. As you can see, there are a few hulls on what I received. I will have to wait until this fall to plant these out. I am currently growing Amber’s Hulless which has grown beautifully for me in hard clay soil that has only had one year’s worth of past crops on it and some mulch. I was surprised. A nearby plot of wheat in similar conditions is struggling while the oats appear lush.
Photos of the composite and what the seeds look like.
Thanks for the heads up. I have had good luck over wintering oats, but a recent frost knocked my stand back pretty well. I picked this up for a spring planting.
Thanks Lowell, on a quick note: once again I so much love the diversity of seeds you can access within the US!
As I am curious of your growing conditions: lovely oats in your field ! When did you sow them? September? Beginning of October? In my place, if I wanted to have them like that now, I should have sown it in september, not later.
I’m on a 30-degree latitude and typically have minimal temperature swings below 25 degrees Fahrenheit throughout winter, so I plant grains in late October and into November, ideally.
Only one year was there enough cold to hurt winter grains (17 F). But they all grew back fine after it passed in two days.
