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Post by Blueflint on May 16, 2008 8:34:13 GMT -5
Silver Queen is the name everyone knows...city people, old timers, kids...everyone. It is an old single cross type with it's only benifit being the hybrid vigor allows it to mature probably 7 to 10 days eariler with possibly other minor "improvements" over its O.P. parentage. My question is does anyone know for sure what the parentage is? I have heard many times one parent is Stowell's. Anyone ever seen documented proof? Which parent is the "father" and which is the "mother"?
Anyone ever selectively bred out an "O.P. Silver Queen"?
Too much time here with all the wet weather...another 1 1/2" of rain last night. I did manage to plant about 2,000 total row feet of sweet corn 10 days ago which is just showing thru.
Blueflint
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Post by canadamike on May 16, 2008 22:33:15 GMT -5
If alan can't answer, I would ask that quetion at the SSE forum in the ''Plant and finder service''. You would probably get thr answer quick.....I too have heard of stowell's, I even remember having read about the pedigree, but can't remember where or any precise detail but the presence of Stowell in the parentage. I have the vague ''half memory'' that the other was known too, but it could very well be my mind playing tricks on me.
Michel
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Post by Alan on May 19, 2008 23:20:47 GMT -5
Yes, stowells was one parent, the other I'm not sure of and doubt it's been publically disclosed since the seed is still in commerce, or the other may just be a generic breeder line, I'll do some research here locally with some hybrid seed corn growers and see if I can find the answer, but the short and long of it is that Stowells Evergreen is a parent in almost if not every modern white sweet corn. You just can't beat greatness and Nathanel Stowell had it right!
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Post by canadamike on May 20, 2008 0:44:29 GMT -5
Grungy is looking up an entry in GRIN of a dwarf 3.5 feet white sweet corn...
I am salivating...
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Post by Blueflint on Nov 22, 2008 13:42:00 GMT -5
While digging and digging thru papers and reading online about short season white sweet corns I have read several times that Luther Hill was one of the Silver Queen's parents. If this is true then it would have to be a large late season corn for the other parent since silver queen is much larger and later than Luther Hill...possibly leaning towards Stowell's as the other parent...which I read was one paernt several years ago but I have not read recently. Possibly Stowell's x Luther Hill?
On a side note, since money is tight (and getting tighter) I did save about 8 pounds of F2 Silver Queen seed from this years crop. I may push it into production as a main crop in 2009 if thigs don't get better. I know there will be some segregation of genes but that is o.k. (I studied genetics in college and know what to expect). I would rather use Stowell's as my main crop if seed money allows though.
Blueflint
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