What's Wrong With My Sweetcorn? Help please.

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What's Wrong With My Sweetcorn? Help please.
« on: May 12, 2013, 09:18 »
Morning All,

So, this morning's job was to pot on the Sweetcorn, which has been coming along nicely. I've noticed that two of the plants have some markings on the leaves but being such a newbie, I have no idea what is is?  :blink: :unsure:

Any ideas, and should I be worried about the other plants?







At the moment these are kept on the kitchen window sill with foil behind ala DD.

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Jim
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Re: What's Wrong With My Sweetcorn? Help please.
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2013, 10:42 »
Have you checked for aphids, not sure it is. But remember its a grass and can die. You might be over watering them.
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Re: What's Wrong With My Sweetcorn? Help please.
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2013, 11:07 »
Assuming it's only lying down because it's posing for its photo  ::) it looks fine to me (OK, a little marking at the end of one of the leaves which could be a touch of sun scorch or other damage but nothing that I'd be worrying about.)
« Last Edit: May 12, 2013, 11:09 by JayG »
Sow your seeds, plant your plants. What's the difference? A couple of weeks or more when answering possible queries!

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Re: What's Wrong With My Sweetcorn? Help please.
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2013, 13:00 »
I wouldn't give such damage a second look. They seem fine to me.
Did it really tell you to do THAT on the packet?

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Re: What's Wrong With My Sweetcorn? Help please.
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2013, 15:50 »
Thanks guys.

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Re: What's Wrong With My Sweetcorn? Help please.
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2013, 11:37 »
Hello again,

Probably another silly issue but here goes:

I was having a look at the sweetcorn this morning and noticed the base of the stem has changed/or is changing from purple to yellow. Is this normal? I've never grown these before  :blink: ???





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Jim

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Re: What's Wrong With My Sweetcorn? Help please.
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2013, 12:05 »
Still look good to me (I'm assuming the yellow colour on some of the leaves is a trick of the light!)

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Re: What's Wrong With My Sweetcorn? Help please.
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2013, 12:14 »
Looks better than mine, wanna swap. Mine has done nothing for about 3 weeks just sat and done nothing  :mad:

Couple of days and it's going out I am bored with it's sulk now  ::)

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Re: What's Wrong With My Sweetcorn? Help please.
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2013, 20:06 »
Hi RookieJim, I grew mine in exactly the same way using toilet roll inners, the same as last year, however this year I had to remove them and pot them on very quickly due to an attack of rust on the outside of the roll, so far there has not been a further attack. I think this was due to the adverse damp and cold conditions.

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Re: What's Wrong With My Sweetcorn? Help please.
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2013, 23:20 »
They look a lot better than mine!!

Elaine
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Re: What's Wrong With My Sweetcorn? Help please.
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2013, 23:32 »
Ha! I'll go with what Elaine above says - they're a lot better looking than what I get! Seriously, I wouldn't worry about them and keep up the good work!


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