[senrab_nhoj]

38 cobs off 9 plants, Thats good, What variety were they ?

4 or 5 cobs a plant... oooo do tell what variety

[Bombers]

38 cobs off 9 plants, Thats good, What variety were they ?

4 or 5 cobs a plant... oooo do tell what variety

&/or what you fed 'em with!  

[mother hen]

Been a lovely day today so I felled 12 corn on the cob plants we have eaten anything that resembled a cob, quite a range of shapes and sizes !  Daughter did comment on how good they were, but she meant her and her brother for not moaning not the corn!  

Think we didnt get enough sun, will try again next year and give them a bit more space.

They made the plot look good anyway

[gobs]

38 cobs off 9 plants, Thats good, What variety were they ?

4 or 5 cobs a plant... oooo do tell what variety

Babycorn.

[Mike.white]

Afternoon all.

I planted Sweetcorn this year to take up some space on my new huge plot.  I planted 36 plants in late May 2008 and they took off like rockets.  I felled the sweet corn forest in late September after cropping the better part of 100 cobs since mid August.  These were my favourite crop of the year.

I used a F1 variety that I had picked up in a B&Q sale.  I planted them in below my forest of tomatoes (also planted to take up space in my first year).  Based on the size and height of my corn I'd say that they benefited from the tomato feed that trickled down the gentle slope to the corn.  I will definitely be feeding my corn with an organic tomato feed next year.  I think I lucked out a bit this year with the feeding, it must have made up for the lack of sun to some extent. Some of the cobs that I harvested in September were a little unfinished at the top but they all tasted great.  I've frozen plenty for the winter but nothing beats them fresh off the plot.


Pictures on my blog.  Please feel free to visit the link is below.

That's a great blog!

[gingercharlie]

Afternoon all.

I planted Sweetcorn this year to take up some space on my new huge plot.  I planted 36 plants in late May 2008 and they took off like rockets.  I felled the sweet corn forest in late September after cropping the better part of 100 cobs since mid August.  These were my favourite crop of the year.

I used a F1 variety that I had picked up in a B&Q sale.  I planted them in below my forest of tomatoes (also planted to take up space in my first year).  Based on the size and height of my corn I'd say that they benefited from the tomato feed that trickled down the gentle slope to the corn.  I will definitely be feeding my corn with an organic tomato feed next year.  I think I lucked out a bit this year with the feeding, it must have made up for the lack of sun to some extent. Some of the cobs that I harvested in September were a little unfinished at the top but they all tasted great.  I've frozen plenty for the winter but nothing beats them fresh off the plot.


Pictures on my blog.  Please feel free to visit the link is below.

That's a great blog!

no not babycorn all good sized corns,never grew them before and as the variety i have no idea,it was just a f1 packet i got from wilkos.i grew them to 18 inches in the greenhouse before planting out,i never fed them at all just let them grow.

[yummy]

Ours were brilliant last year, but this year it has been a load of pants tbh. Most are not pollinated properly, or are nowhere near ripe yet and the plants are dying off now. We have eaten about 3 cobs.

[gobs]

no not babycorn all good sized corns,never grew them before and as the variety i have no idea,it was just a f1 packet i got from wilkos.i grew them to 18 inches in the greenhouse before planting out,i never fed them at all just let them grow.

Well, as far as I know, some open-pollinated varieties will produce 3-4 cobs. All hybrids, especially F1s were bred to produce one good sized cob and some 'prolific hybrids' to produce 1-2 cobs per plant, the reason being that these provide the best harvestable and marketable yields. That's not just machinery reasons, also due to pollination problems in many cobs and the more cobs the smaller the size nature of corn.

A lot of 'baby corn' is just corn suitable for growing on close spacing, these on close planting will produce 3-7 small cobs.

There are always the tillers, of course. Unless you counting these, it sounds a miracle. :shock:

[SnooziSuzi]

well next year I've decided to grow mine in a poly tunnel just in case it rains as much as it has the last couple of years.

I only really got about 5 useable cobs off 24 plants so was quite disappointed     The best thing though was just before I felled them last week I found a couple of cobs which, althouh each were only about 20% polinated, and cooked them on my little camping stove.  Yum Yum  :chef: