[sellickbhoy]

i've about 5 or 6 cobs on my sweetcorn plants.

i'm having a BBQ tomorrow and want to try fresh sweetcorn straight off the plant, onto the bbq and into my tummy!! but how do i know if my sweetcorn is ready?

[rustyme]

your corn should be ready about 3-4 days after the silk at the top goes brown ......if you peel back back the husk and pop a kernal with your finger nail , if it is thick and milky ...you have waited too long .....the corn should be plump and when popped the milky stuff should be sort of see through/cloudy ...a few days over won't make too much difference , it just may not be as sweet as it could be, if left too long.   Hope that makes sense ??

cheers

Russ

[little blue]

 The tassels at the end should be turning brown when it starts to ripen.
If you gently peel back the husks, and look at the corn - it should be nice and yellow and quite big. If you dig your nail into a corn, the liquid should be slightly milky.

Enjoy!

(I'm a very slow typist - Russ beat me to it!!)

[sellickbhoy]

well, the silks coming out the end were brown (a bit beyond that actually)

anyway, pulled one off and unwrapped it - took a wee while

half of it looked like sweetcorn, but the half towards the tip was under developed.

overall - wouldn't say it was an edible specimen!! there are several more though where th esilks are still white, so i'll keep an eye on them and hopefully they'll come good.

thanks

[aparker155]

I had my first successful corncob this year - it was quite white (as opposed to yellow) but it tasted nice anyway!! 

[Fluffywelshsheep]

1st time in this house for sweetcorn here not great high but the male parts have formed can't see any femail cobs yet but i was a bit late putting them in and they do have to compete with the squash underneath them