one ear of sweet 🌽 from last fall

[tamrock]

I picked this dried out ear of sweet corn after the first snow from the ones I planted last year with store bought kernels. Thought I'd try the kernels from this one ear this year. Boy did they ever pop up quick. Hopefully they'll produced some tasty sweetcorn this summer.

 

[UnderMiner]

Looks great!

 

[Tpmetal]

Looks great! I'm literally about to walk out the door to till and plant my corn patch. I'm a bit late this year so hope it works out

 

[releventchair]

I picked this dried out ear of sweet corn after the first snow from the ones I planted last year with store bought kernels. Thought I'd try the kernels from this one ear this year. Boy did they ever pop up quick. Hopefully they'll produced some tasty sweetcorn this summer.

Wow.
I know some folks live in tiny houses ; but you have a tiny tiny house!

Good start on this years crop.

 

[worldtalker]

Sure hope that ear was not hybrid.

 

[rginn]

Yeah if it's hybrid, you never know what you might get.

 

[UnderMiner]

Yeah if it's hybrid, you never know what you might get.

Yeah, like I remember this one year...

...luckily we had fire to contain its rampage.

 

[tamrock]

Wow.
I know some folks live in tiny houses ; but you have a tiny tiny house!

Good start on this years crop.

Efficiency has been my quest.

 

[tamrock]

Sure hope that ear was not hybrid.

From what I understand every kernel of corn today is a hybrid. I read once maize described as the greatest gift ever handed down to us by the ancient people of the Americas and if it all of a sudden cease to exist the modern world of today would suffer immensely.

 

[AU Seeker]

From what I understand every kernel of corn today is a hybrid. I read once maize described as the greatest gift ever handed down to us by the ancient people of the Americas and if it would all of a sudden cease to exist our modern world of today would suffer immensely.

If that is true then the corn you planted this year will not be the same as the corn you planted/harvested last year, when you plant a seed from a hybrid the resulting plant will be one of the strains that created the hybrid but not the same as the hybrid the seed came from.

 

[tamrock]

Yeah if it's hybrid, you never know what you might get.

I'll name verity, front range white. I was gonna order seed from Olathe but didn't get around to it.

 

[tamrock]

If that is true then the corn you planted this year will not be the same as the corn you planted/harvested last year, when you plant a seed from a hybrid the resulting plant will be one of the strains that created the hybrid but not the same as the hybrid the seed came from.

I wondered about that. It isn't recommended I now know, but not always a failure. If anything really good western Colorado grown sweetcorn in the store is cheap come August.

 

[pepperj]

I wondered about that. It isn't recommended I now know, but not always a failure. If anything really good western Colorado grown sweetcorn in the store is cheap come August.

Well might have some good corn stalks, or you might have some cobs on those stalks.
You're just going to have to wait and see.
Fingers 🤞

 

[tamrock]

Well might have some good corn stalks, or you might have some cobs on those stalks.
You're just going to have to wait and see.
Fingers 🤞

Right. If anything it'll grow up all tall and pretty and those who come and visit will see my garden and say - Oh Wow!!!

 

[pepperj]

Looks great! I'm literally about to walk out the door to till and plant my corn patch. I'm a bit late this year so hope it works out

I just planted this weekend also. Wet cool spring has delayed planting, and what was planted is kind of dormant.

 

[Tpmetal]

I just planted this weekend also. Wet cool spring has delayed planting, and what was planted is kind of dormant.

Yeah it has been a rough spring for planting

 

[tamrock]

Yeah if it's hybrid, you never know what you might get.

Come to think of it I planted three types of corn all together last year. I had a white, a yellow and a cream peach or something like that verity. So if they did any cross pollination, it'll be interesting to see the results. As far as what's coming out of the ground now they look healthy and grow about a quarter inch a day.

 

[rginn]

I saved seeds from a couple of outstanding tomato plants one year and planted them, and they all came up cherry tomatoes, which was still ok. From experience, never plant cucumbers and squash close together, cause they will cross-pollinate. About corn, one year I planted a second crop, dumped a ton of fertilizer on it, and poured the water to it. I had corn stalks that grew 10 feet high, but no ears. People pulled over to the side of the road to look at it and ask me about it. I told them I was growin that for silage to save face.

 

[unclemac]

oh no! Monsanto is gonna come plow you under!!!

 

[tamrock]

I saved seeds from a couple of outstanding tomato plants one year and planted them, and they all came up cherry tomatoes, which was still ok. From experience, never plant cucumbers and squash close together, cause they will cross-pollinate. About corn, one year I planted a second crop, dumped a ton of fertilizer on it, and poured the water to it. I had corn stalks that grew 10 feet high, but no ears. People pulled over to the side of the road to look at it and ask me about it. I told them I was growin that for silage to save face.

We had hail come down in a wind whipping dump yesterday. It really did a number on shredding them up and knocking some over. Not sure how well they'll pull through now.