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Disappointing Sweetcorn!

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Re: Disappointing Sweetcorn!
« Reply #30 on: September 16, 2009, 04:57 »
Tassels on the top of the plants. Silks on the cobs.

The silks need to catch the pollen sufficient to pollinate each kernel.

(Why is the noun "pollen", yet the verb is "pollinate"?).
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Re: Disappointing Sweetcorn!
« Reply #31 on: September 16, 2009, 08:27 »
"(Why is the noun "pollen", yet the verb is "pollinate"?)."

Isn't the noun Pollination, and "Pollen" something else?  :wacko:

I tried shaking the plants this year, never saw any pollen falling, so I reckon the wind was doing it "ongoing" and not giving me the chance.

(The ones I grew in the greenhouse I shook, and definitely saw loads of pollen :) great fun bending the plants to try to get the silks in the middle of the falling cloud of pollen!)
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Re: Disappointing Sweetcorn!
« Reply #32 on: September 16, 2009, 08:37 »
dictionary.com

pollen 

–noun 1. the fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses.

–verb (used with object) 2. to pollinate.

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Re: Disappointing Sweetcorn!
« Reply #33 on: September 16, 2009, 09:02 »
The male bits are on top: the flowery thing.
The female parts are underneath, at the end of the cob: silks ('cos they look like ....).
There's only one male part per plant, so if you have several cobs, by the time the lower ones have developped the male part hasemptied his ... er ... reserves.

When the pollen is ripe and dropping, you should see that the leaves are covered in yellow dust: pollen. (If its not raining every day  :(  )
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Re: Disappointing Sweetcorn!
« Reply #34 on: September 16, 2009, 09:11 »
I am going to pull up my plants this week, can I put them in the compost bin?

Also, can I plant my wintering springs and cabbage in the space where i pulled them from?
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Re: Disappointing Sweetcorn!
« Reply #35 on: September 16, 2009, 12:34 »


Sorry I read that first time as

Quote from: Riala on September 16, 2009, 09:11
I am going to pull up my pants this week, can I put them in the compost bin?

Also, can I plant my wintering springs and cabbage in the space where i pulled them from?
  :lol:
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Re: Disappointing Sweetcorn!
« Reply #36 on: September 16, 2009, 12:37 »
I was just thinking: "Haven't heard from LittlePinkFrog for a long time"  ......
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Re: Disappointing Sweetcorn!
« Reply #37 on: September 16, 2009, 12:40 »
 :tongue2: @ tode
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Re: Disappointing Sweetcorn!
« Reply #38 on: September 16, 2009, 12:43 »
Quote from: DD. on September 16, 2009, 08:37
dictionary.com

pollen 

–noun 1. the fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine, powdery, yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses.

–verb (used with object) 2. to pollinate.

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pollination

–noun Botany.
the transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma.

Origin:
1870–75; pollinate + -ion

but I'm a byslexic dastard, so don't even know why I would enter into linguist syntactical debate :(
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Re: Disappointing Sweetcorn!
« Reply #39 on: September 16, 2009, 13:58 »
Wot ?
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Re: Disappointing Sweetcorn!
« Reply #40 on: September 17, 2009, 18:42 »
Quote from: Kristen on September 15, 2009, 11:28
I have had very good results with Swift F1 this year. They seemed incredibly early (01May sowing harvesting 20Jul, 01Jun sowing harvesting 14Aug onwards), and clearly are bred for that purpose - the cobs are born one leaf joint lower than the old conventional taller type, and the plant is that much smaller too, which I think gives them time to mature within our climate.

I'm curious to know what varieties folk were growing (and which had difficulty, which not) - I wonder if some of the failures are with the older-type taller / later varieties?

I grew Swift and Two's Sweeter, about 40 of each grown 9" apart in blocks of 40, both did really well, along with eating fresh I have about 80 cobs in the freezer as well.
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