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I didn't break any world records this year, but I broke almost every single personal best for every type of plant that I grow.  Of the corn I measured so far, tallest are as follows: (I still have several around 20 feet tall or so to measure so the list will change)

Tehua - 25 feet 9 inches (personal best for tallest corn)
Tehua - 25 feet 2 inches
Tehua - 24 feet 6 inches
Uchima - 23 feet 2 inches (personal best for this race)
Olotillo-Tuxpeno - 22 feet 3 inches. (personal best for this race)
Uchima - 22 feet 3 inches
Olotillo-Tuxpeno 21 feet 1 inch
Montana 19 feet 5 inches
Uchima 19 feet

I also have a personal best for my giant amaranth (Amaranthus australis) at 24 feet 4 inches.  I also have a new personal best for my sterile-hybrid amaranth (Amaranthus hybridus X Amaranthus australis) with two plants at 22 feet this year.  I also have a new personal best for a Amaranthus hybridus at 19 feet 2 inches.  I also had a personal best for Amaranthus cannabinus (tidal marsh amaranth) at 21 feet.

25 feet 9 inch tall tehua maize


same plant next to a street light


same plant next to my garage.  Plant in the front is a giant amaranth


24 feet 4 inch giant amaranth - Amaranthus australis


19 feet 2 inch tall Amaranthus hybridus


Row of giant corn and amaranths


another angle


a 22 feet tall sterile-hybrid amaranth (A. hybridus X A. australis) at my garden plot at my job in Princeton, New Jersey


55 pound zucca gourd and some vegetable marrows


15 inch sunflower heads


Daughter in my main garden under a giant amaranth


Mom and kids next to some giant mexican tehua maize


daughters with a vegetable marrow

[tode]

Do you get giant cobs on your giant corn  ?

[cob nut]

  Wow!

[madcat]

Wow!  It's like sleeping beauty, all the plants growing up and hiding the castle!   

[sunflower_info]

Do you get giant cobs on your giant corn  ?

Some of the plants do not produce either tassles or ears.  Others produce tassles with no ears.  Some varieties I am very successful at producing ears, such as Olotillo-Tuxpeno.  The longest ears are from a variety named Jala, but I didn't grow any of those.  The ears can get about 2 feet and the ears up to 18 inches inside.

[viettaclark]

What on earth do you feed them?

[sunflower_info]

What on earth do you feed them?

   This year I went high on the nitrogren.  I would top dress with Urea every week and then I used daily or every other day with a small amount of nitrate nitrogen.  I was also experimenting with foliar sprays of plant hormones as well.