[MichaelPye]

Hi,
Chitted Suttons Sweet Corn F1 Sundance mid-March and transferred to Routrainers, and moved into greenhouse. Planted out mid-May into well drained, manured, sunny location.
Plants now approx 60cm high, and are throwing out tassels at the top. Grown previously and Sundance normally gets to 1.5m or taller.

Stressed ?, planted too early ?, any ideas ?
Is it worth leaving in the ground, some 30+ plants and take up quite a bit of space ?

[mumofstig]

They seem to have spent a long while in the root-trainers............mine are usually up and outside pretty quick

Someone else is having the same problem this year with early tassels
http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=78241.0

[JayG]

They do seem to have been planted out early given the conditions this year and have probably been stressed into reproducing before growing to full size.

Funnily enough I grew Sundance a few years ago and the plants were similarly stunted, although that was at a time when I was still learning about how hungry sweetcorn is and how poor my soil is!

Alas, the crop was virtually non-existent - I don't think you can expect much growth now they have decided to seed, but don't do anything in haste until you have (hopefully) had some further opinions.

[Kristen]

I think too long in pots too.  I reckon on three weeks (including a weeks hardening off) from germination to planting out.

My first plant this year (in greenhouse) Tassel'd early (as per the link in MoS's post), this was the largest in the batch planted out, and I think was more stressed than the others as a consequence.

[MichaelPye]

Thanks everyone.
Managed to find some replacement plants at a local nursery, shame as everything else I have grown from seed this year.