🌾 Whitetail Institute Conceal – 7 lb

This one is NOT a food source like your other seeds — it’s a cover/screening plant. Think of it as a hunting tool, not a feeder.

✅ Basics

• Size: 7 lb

• Coverage: ~¼ acre

• Type: annual screening blend

• Purpose: create tall, thick cover

🌿 What it actually is

A mix of fast-growing plants:

• Sun hemp

• Multiple sorghum varieties

👉 Each grows a different height → gives layered thickness from ground to top

🌱 How tall it gets

• Typically 6–10 feet tall

👉 It’s basically a living wall.

🦌 What it’s used for (BIG difference vs your other seeds)

🔒 1. Screening

• Block view from:

  • Roads

  • Neighbor properties

• Hide your food plot

🪜 2. Hide your access

• Walk to stands without deer seeing you

• One of the biggest advantages

🛏️ 3. Bedding cover

• Gives deer security → they stick around

🧭 4. Funnel deer movement

• Force deer to move where YOU want them

🎯 5. Improve daylight movement

• Deer feel safe → show up earlier

👉 This is why serious hunters love it—it changes how deer move, not just what they eat.

🔥 Key benefits

• Grows FAST and thick in one season

• Extremely dense top-to-bottom cover

• Works almost anywhere with decent soil

• Makes your whole setup huntable in daylight

⚠️ Downsides

• ❌ Not a food plot (deer won’t eat it much)

• ❌ Must replant every year

• ❌ Needs warm weather to grow (not for fall planting)

📅 When to plant (important)

This is a spring / early summer plant

📍 Michigan:

• Mid-May → June is ideal

👉 Rule:

• Plant once soil warms up (no frost risk)

• Treat it like a warm-season crop

🌱 How to plant

1. Kill weeds / prep soil

2. Broadcast seed

3. Cover lightly:

   • ~¼ inch deep

4. Fertilize (likes nitrogen more than clover or peas)

🟢 Where to plant it (THIS is how you win)

🔥 Best uses on your property

• Along roads or property edges

• Around food plots

• Along access trails

• Between:

  • bedding → food

  • woods → open fields

🧠 Perfect setup (with the seeds you bought)

If you’ve got:

• Oats / Oats Plus

• Destination

• Winter Peas Plus

• ✅ Conceal

👉 Here’s how to use it:

✅ Layout

ROAD / ENTRY
||||||||||||||||  ← Conceal (screen wall)

Oats / Oats Plus (early draw)

Destination (mid season)

Winter Peas Plus (late season hot spot)

✅ Also use it for:

• Hidden entry lane to your stand

• Small “pocket plots” deer feel safe entering

💡 Pro tips (very important)

• Plant 10–20+ ft wide strips for real screening

• Narrow strips don’t block sight as well

• Combine with:

  • tree lines

  • natural cover
    → makes it even more effective

👍 Bottom line

Conceal isn’t food—it’s strategy.

• Creates security for deer

• Hides you getting in/out

• Helps you kill deer in daylight

👉 Honestly, this is one of the most underrated tools in deer hunting.