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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: JimG on April 02, 2008, 21:37

Title: Sweet Corn
Post by: JimG on April 02, 2008, 21:37

I want to grow sweet corn this year for the first time.  I've picked up some different varieties (and a couple of oddities, including Black Aztec Corn!) but wonder about the chances of cross polination.  I suppose the easiest way is to stagger the planting so that the different varieties mature at different times but there must be a chance that the time taken to get to that stage could vary too.

Any thoughts, folks?

Cheers,


Jim

Title: Sweet Corn
Post by: gobs on April 02, 2008, 21:59

If you have any supersweets you would be struggling to make any use out of them at your location, to say the least. Without them there are not many probs at all.

Title: Sweet Corn
Post by: fivespud364 on April 02, 2008, 22:22

sweetcorn falls in to different catagories and super sweets should not be grown near others or they will cross pollinate also never grow the minipop sweetcorn next to normal or you will get cobs that are large at the bottom and tiny at the top

Title: Sweet Corn
Post by: JimG on April 03, 2008, 21:18

Thanks, both.  I've not got any super sweet varieties (I think), so will keep my fingers crossed.  What with the forecast for the weekend, I've given up all hope of growing anything 'tender'!

Title: Sweet Corn
Post by: cawdor2001 on April 03, 2008, 22:02

JimG, i am sure you were not going to plant now but just in case it is way too early for any maize/sweetcorn now, do not plant outside, even inside i reckon it is too early.

Cawdor

Title: Sweet Corn
Post by: compostqueen on April 03, 2008, 22:37

not sowing any til the month end  :D