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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 25, 2015 21:53:26 GMT -5
Turns out the segregation around the truck was approximately Teachers/Students. The tortillas were ok in texture... Great tasting. Pretty coarse because they were made with a grain mill instead of a metate. And I wonder about how effective the nixtimalization/rinsing were. I got to sort through a pickup truck full of glass gem corn, and I brought home some that I thought might pop well. I'm keeping the name a trade-secret for the time being, but some of my choices worked out very well:
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Post by steev on Mar 25, 2015 23:36:23 GMT -5
Well, I'm sure you'll trade secrets with us when it's time.
Fourth drought year be damned! I hope for a good corn year; couldn't be worse than last year. I am committed to planting this month, two months earlier than ever; I have nothing to lose but the seed and effort; if it flies, I will gain a great deal. Inshallah, my work will be rewarded! If not, I've never been the cosmos's favorite son, so what's new?
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 26, 2015 15:52:04 GMT -5
Well, Steev, I could always send you a few "Purgatorio" Beans. Steev, Leo's tilling the field this weekend, and I'm starting the corn in trays. Here I thought I was early, as it's still 3 weeks before we normally plant corn. Today I drove by a commercial organic farmer and their corn is 4 inches high. My tomatoes are in, I guess it's time to start cukes and zukes to trays too.
Nice looking popcorn Joseph. (Of course!) Can't wait to hear what you call it. I seem to remember another Joseph with a coat of many colors.
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Post by steev on Mar 26, 2015 20:24:55 GMT -5
Re the corn-harvest photo: well, of course, there was Joseph, the two-fer teacher/student, smack in the middle.
"Purgatorio" beans? Are those the kind I got, and which got me back, that time in Mexico?
As to the lack of "Winter", if this keeps up, it's gonna kill me; I rely on cold, wet weather for guiltless time off.
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Post by Stump on Mar 26, 2015 21:05:17 GMT -5
I found a punnet of glass bead corn in our local big box hardware store. They marketed it as "Painted Mountain" corn. I only found it quite late in the season, and was a failure. The plants only grew 3 feet tall, and only one ear actually made a small cob, that was not very colourful. Just a hint of faded purple and reds, but mainly yellow kernels. The normal sweetcorn that was planted late at the same time grew 10 feet tall, and I just fed the first cob to my youngest little boy for lunch today. I read somewhere that the glass bead matures quick once the ears form?
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Post by blueadzuki on Jul 7, 2016 20:15:11 GMT -5
There was recently an article on Glass Gem in Heirloom Gardener. Among other things it actually answered the question that has been bugging me, what the hell is that miniature GG I find in the fall (a Canadian company attached them to dowels and sells them as floral displays). I turns out there is indeed a mini version of GG (the variety parameters allow for ears as small as 4 inches) The larger version is just a lot commoner.
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Post by Drahkk on Jul 8, 2016 12:34:06 GMT -5
I found a punnet of glass bead corn in our local big box hardware store. They marketed it as "Painted Mountain" corn. I only found it quite late in the season, and was a failure. The plants only grew 3 feet tall, and only one ear actually made a small cob, that was not very colourful. Just a hint of faded purple and reds, but mainly yellow kernels. The normal sweetcorn that was planted late at the same time grew 10 feet tall, and I just fed the first cob to my youngest little boy for lunch today. I read somewhere that the glass bead matures quick once the ears form? Painted Mountain and Glass Gem are two different varieties. I believe Painted Mountain is the older of the two. As for growing, I cannot speak from experience. This is my first year growing Glass Gem (from a sample I got in trade). It is about 7 feet tall and just starting to tassel. Looking forward to the results!
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Post by rowan on Jul 8, 2016 14:28:14 GMT -5
My glass gem corn only gets to about 5 feet and the cobs are around 4-5 inches.
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Post by blueadzuki on Jul 8, 2016 18:46:48 GMT -5
This is probably going to get rather muddled, I'm having difficulty finding the right words to convey what I am trying to say.
What I am trying to get at is that there seem to be two strains of Glass Gem (or based on the photo I mentioned, two extremes of a very wide spectrum.)
The commoner one seems to be a "normal" sized ear (that is one about the size of a standard cob of eating corn, say 7-8 inches). It has kernels that I would describe as "standard" Indian/full size ornamental corn shape (sort of blocky and comparatively thick with a fairly curved top. Sort of the shape of 4-5 slices of bread)
The other one seems to be a miniature ear. Besides being a lot smaller (say 4-5 inches) it has a kernel shape more like what is typical for a small seeded popcorn (taller, flatter, more tapered and often with a SOMEWHAT more flattened top (nowhere near the near inverted triangle many dent corns are, but with a much less pronounced kernel arc)). Tellingly, it also pops a lot more readily than does the larger one THAT is what keeps showing up in the Canadian stuff (though based on what Rowan says it may also be the one she has)
There do seem to be ones in between but the ones I have seen seem to all have the larger ones kernel shape. It isn't until you get to the full mini you start seeing mini shapes.
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Post by rowan on Jul 8, 2016 20:59:44 GMT -5
Yes, I do think there are two types. This is mine, most of my ears are the smaller ones. Ignore that they are not filled as well as they could be, I was in drought this summer and GG doesn't seem to do well in very hot, dry conditions.:
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Post by steev on Jul 8, 2016 21:12:13 GMT -5
Although not up to your hopes of productivity, those are very pretty ears.
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Post by blueadzuki on Jul 9, 2016 11:56:07 GMT -5
Yes, I do think there are two types. This is mine, most of my ears are the smaller ones. Ignore that they are not filled as well as they could be, I was in drought this summer and GG doesn't seem to do well in very hot, dry conditions.: OK that looks like the "normal" sized one. Here's a scan of some ears of the other kind
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Post by gray on Jul 18, 2016 18:07:09 GMT -5
The one blueadzuki calls the other kind is the one that looks like what I grow. It is like the one I originally received seed for.
Though I get colors like rowan also. Mine has the full spectrum of color and size.
I dont understand why some photos show cobs not filled out. When I grow it even in very small plots 8 plants it seems to pollinate well.
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