🌱 Whitetail Institute Tall Tine Tubers – 3 lb

This one is a straight-up turnip powerhouse — built to grow huge bulbs + leafy tops and keep deer coming back late season.

✅ Basic info

• Bag: 3 lb

• Coverage: ~½ acre

• Type: Fall annual (turnip-based brassica)

• Purpose: fall attraction → strong late-season root food

🌿 What it is

• A single specialized turnip variety (not a mix)

• Took 6 years to develop for deer attraction

👉 Key idea:

• This is NOT a blend

• It’s built around one super-attractive turnip

🦌 What it does (this is why guys love it)

🥬 1. Two food sources in one plant

• Leaves (tops) → early & mid-season

• Tubers (bulbs underground) → late season

👉 Deer eat:

• tops first

• then dig bulbs later

🥔 2. BIG tuber production

• Bulbs can grow softball size

👉 That means:

• tons of calories

• food deep into winter

❄️ 3. Late-season magnet

• Tops get sweeter after frost

• Bulbs become prime food when temps drop

👉 This is when:

• rut ends

• bucks need calories

⚡ 4. Fast, aggressive growth

• Establishes quickly

• Produces heavy tonnage

👉 Good for:

• new plots

• short planting windows

🧊 5. Very tough plant

• Handles:

  • drought

  • cold conditions

👉 Reliable even in rough years

📅 When to plant (Michigan)

• Late July → mid August

• Ideal:

  • early August

👉 Needs:

• ~6–8 weeks before frost

🌱 Planting

1. Disk/till soil

2. Broadcast evenly

3. Lightly cover (~¼")

4. Fertilize (huge difference for bulb size)

🟢 Best uses

✅ PERFECT for:

• Fall food plots with big root production

• Late-season feeding areas

• Holding deer into winter

• Mixing with grains

❌ NOT ideal for:

• variety (it’s one plant type)

• balanced plots by itself

💡 Pro tips

• Fertilizer = bigger bulbs (don’t skip)

• Frost improves taste

• Deer may ignore it at first → then hammer it later

• Works great in rotation with summer crops

👍 Bottom line

Tall Tine Tubers = heavy tonnage + late-season roots

• Two food sources ✔

• Massive bulbs ✔

• Great after frost ✔

• Keeps deer through winter ✔