Help Sweetcorn

Sorry for the urgency but promised my daughter we would plant sweetcorn today however when I've gone to get the seeds I started chitting Tues/Weds they have gone furry and spores of mould are on them will they be safe to use or do I need to start again?

Thanks
Missy

Thanks JayG will discard the chitting ones and try direct - didnt think of that

Missy

I lost a batch this year chitting on kitchen paper. I had pressed the moist kitchen paper well down onto the seeds; I've now changed my technique to make sure the seed is well moist to start with, and then raise up the upper layer of kitchen paper so that some air can circulate.

When I re-wet the container I pour all the excess moisture out - whereas for other seeds I leave it "wet" rather than "moist".

The modern varieties of sweetcorn have more problems with germination than their predecessors - and are often coat with a fungicide in order to improve their chances ...

I had 100% germination in four days, sowing into deep pots ( 3 to a pot) covered in cling film and then in a cold greenhouse.

 (weather was decent though  )

Sorry for the urgency but promised my daughter we would plant sweetcorn today however when I've gone to get the seeds I started chitting Tues/Weds they have gone furry and spores of mould are on them will they be safe to use or do I need to start again?

Thanks
Missy

Rinse them gently in luke warm water, it will only be a surface fungi, then get them in soil asap

If you plant 3 to a pot, do you only keep the strongest growing one, plant all 3 together, or split them on planting............you've got me guessing

The pots are 12 ins deep (bought roses in them years ago) and I separate out each plant carefully. The roots are thick and juicy and need careful handling, and it is best not the let the plants get too big for that reason.

Total success like this last year so fingers crossed for the same again 

I've always sown straight into pots but i had opened left over  packets in my seed bag, one dating back to 06.  So i chitted them on damp kitchen roll and got about 95% germinate.  They were all furry, but i potted them up anyway and they're all growing on well. 

If you look at the shooting seed some will have a shoot as well as a root.  Just by sure to get the root pointing down and the shoot up