The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: suziequeue on September 13, 2010, 08:49:07 pm
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My GOD!!!
What happened?
SHould I take it down to the local clinic?!!!!
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oh heck that looks a wee bit poorly, im so sorry but that has made me laugh, but on a serious note i hope someone can tell you what is up with it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It hasn't fully pollinated / fertilised. The corn only forms once the male tassels have fertilised the female cobs with attached silks.
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Ooh!! my hubby used to run a clinic for things like that :o I had to squint to try and work out what it was LOL!! yet to check my corn, think I better haveing seen yours. better luck next time ;)
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It hasn't fully pollinated / fertilised. The corn only forms once the male tassels have fertilised the female cobs with attached silks.
Ah right - I did read something about that on the forum a while back..... but ignored it..... thinking that - well - there's fields full of corn all over the place and the farmers can't all be going around shaking tassels and rubbing silks ;-)..... in public!!!
So I now have two questions:
Why does the corn in the field seem to do it on its own?
How can I get them to shake their booties next year?
I have to say these seeds were a great disappointment. Only one germinated out of ten and they looked like something you would find down the back of the sofa to start with!!
:-)
Susanna
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It hasn't fully pollinated / fertilised. The corn only forms once the male tassels have fertilised the female cobs with attached silks.
Ah right - I did read something about that on the forum a while back..... but ignored it..... thinking that - well - there's fields full of corn all over the place and the farmers can't all be going around shaking tassels and rubbing silks ;-)..... in public!!!
So I now have two questions:
Why does the corn in the field seem to do it on its own?
How can I get them to shake their booties next year?
I had teh same problem last eyar - very disappointing. I just buy the baby ones from Tesco now ;D
I have to say these seeds were a great disappointment. Only one germinated out of ten and they looked like something you would find down the back of the sofa to start with!!
:-)
Susanna
I had the same problem - not trying them again.
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Dont forget wind pollination in a big field would be incredibly effective.
Try planting it in "blocks" rather than rows, and in not too windy a position, and when you walk past just run your hands against the stalks to encourage the pollen from the tops to reach the cobs.
Where I am I find it much more reliable when planted in my polytunnel
All the best
Sue
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At first I thought it looked like a sick courgette :P ;D
I did as I was told in spring on here ;) and we had lovely corn. I had 2 lots, one in the polytunnel and some outdoors. Indoors I shook them once the tussells were showing ,so they were pollinated. Once the indoors ones finished flowering (the male flowers finish earlier ::) ) the outdoors ones started, so I took some pollen from there. I have even there 3 cobs growing outside! wind did the job . I'll definitely grow them again like that, would love some exotic variety, like red or blue corn. If anyone has any seed, please let me know! :&>
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Ours did quite well planted outside in a block, only had a couple that looked a bit like suziequeues - the chicks enjoyed them. We planted them inside an old coldframe so they were fairly well protected until they reached a decent height. Didn't shke them at all, but have taken on board darkbrowneggs tip and will run my fingers through their hair next year ;D But hopefully we shall have a polytunnel by next year...
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We've had good and terrible results with corn. Hopefully if we get a polytunnel up, we'll get more reliable results.