🌱 Whitetail Institute Tall Tine Tubers – 12 lb

✅ Basic info

• Bag: 12 lb

• Coverage: ~2 acres

• Type: Fall annual (turnip-based brassica)

• Purpose: heavy fall attraction + strong late-season root food

🌿 What it is

• A specialized turnip variety (NOT a mix)

• Designed specifically for deer after years of testing

👉 Think of it as:

maximum turnip performance (tops + bulbs)

🦌 What it does (why you’d run the 12 lb)

🥬 1. Dual food system

• Leafy tops → early & mid fall

• Underground tubers → late season

👉 Deer feed in stages:

1. Leaves first

2. Bulbs after frost

🥔 2. Produces massive bulbs

• Tubers can grow softball-size or bigger

👉 This gives:

• serious calories

• food under snow

• long-lasting attraction

❄️ 3. Becomes deadly after frost

• Leaves + bulbs both get sweeter

• Deer shift hard to it late season

👉 Perfect for:

• rut → post-rut → winter

⚡ 4. Heavy tonnage for big plots

• Grows fast

• Produces huge food volume

👉 That’s why you run the 12 lb:

• holds more deer

• prevents overgrazing

🧊 5. Handles tough conditions

• Tolerates:

  • drought

  • cold

👉 Very reliable crop in Michigan weather

📅 When to plant (Michigan sweet spot)

• Late July – mid August

• Best:

  • early August

👉 Needs:

• ~6–8 weeks before frost

🌱 How to plant

1. Disk/till

2. Broadcast evenly

3. Cover lightly (~¼")

4. Fertilize heavy (key for big bulbs)

💡 Pro tips

• Fertilizer = EVERYTHING (bigger bulbs = more attraction)

• Don’t plant too early (can get tough)

• Frost makes it explode with activity

• Works best in sunny areas

👍 Bottom line

12 lb Tall Tine Tubers = bulk food + late-season power

• Massive bulbs ✔

• Two-stage feeding ✔

• High tonnage ✔

• Holds deer deep into winter ✔