No doubt about that

Planning when you'd like to plant totally depends on which variety of millet you're using and if you're wanting it for teal season or big duck which can vary whether you're wanting for opening day or spread out throughout season(which is what we do). No matter how well you plan, Mother Nature will throw you a curve ball from year to year pertaining to moisture needed to plant or a lack of. Having the ability to flush helps manage these curve calls to an extent.

If you're in an area that has good duck or goose numbers early in the season, don't have water in your ponds for very long in Oct otherwise they'll wipe it out before you ever get to hunt them.

Which varieties would you plant for late season and when would you plant them?

Jap millet around Aug 15th+/- a week depending on moisture for first split ponds and first week in Sept. for ponds we're flooding for 2nd split. We have a long growing season and the temps don't usually get to cold in early Nov. If we get a good early winter then it'll hurt our late season millet.

Brown top July 1st +/- a week for teal. 60 day growing period
Jap July 15th +/- a week for 1st split. 90 day growing period
Chiwapa July 15th +/- a week mid 1st split and only plant where ducks feed/roost. 120 day growing period
Jap Sept 1st +/- a week for 2nd split. 90 day growing period

Brown top doesn't like standing water and Jap/chiwapa can handle it like rice once it gets up 6-8 inches as long as plant isn't totally under water.

**We flag all our ponds that are planted exactly where we plant and where we don't plant. We also take pictures throughout the growing process because we leave runways in/out of blinds unplanted along with area around blinds to throw decoys. When we come back in and disc/shred/spray our runways/decoy area we don't want to take any chances on someone saying we manipulated anything which is why we use construction flags from the get go on want is/isn't planted. We've been told that we go overboard and don't need to do all that, but in our mind it is worth it to make sure we never have an issue and we'd rather do way to much than barely get by and an issue arise out of it.**

Hope this helps. Again this is how we go into planting season for our area and normal weather patterns and every year it changes a little depending on Mother Nature.

Wow that is a great post, thank you for all the details and dates! Glad to hear your process to avoid manipulation issues. I've personally seen these cases built against hunters who were doing wrong and your method should remove all doubt.

Thanks guys for the info.

Also do you think millet would go bad just sitting around
in an attic?

no clue, with the amount of time, effort, and money that goes into planting...quality seed is the last thing I want to roll the dice on. how long you wanting to keep it?

I'm planting 35ac real soon