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Post by adamus on Dec 29, 2012 15:30:05 GMT -5
Yep, mine are hammering away Richard. The ones without tassles are just a much bigger plant, and they've all got tassles now. The second and third lots i planted are catching up fast. We seem to have good years for different things up here. This year seems to be melons and corn and zucchini.
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Post by richardw on Dec 31, 2012 13:54:51 GMT -5
Same here,not only the corn also but all the different beans are another one doing really well
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Post by adamus on Jan 1, 2013 23:18:31 GMT -5
It's a great year. The unexpected heat is a real treat. I just planted the last(really, I promise), of the sweet corn. Kandy Korn hybrid. It looks great, at 2 1/2 metres tall, with maroon flecks on the leaves. Thought I'd just push the envelope a little. See if I get corn before frost. Like you, the beans are really going for it. And the eggplants.
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Post by steev on Jan 3, 2013 1:04:23 GMT -5
You're bragging; grumble; s'okay; that's half the fun. May you prosper and revel in it. More profit than necessary is a beautiful thing, which makes for happy "lean" times.
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Post by adamus on Jan 4, 2013 5:22:49 GMT -5
Sure does Steev. last year, we had so much rain, my corn looked like the germination lost the lottery. Fat cobs alright, but only six rows of poorly filled cob, and the rest was empty of kernels. Heartbreaking.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 5, 2013 20:24:46 GMT -5
pictures pictures pictures please!
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Post by adamus on Jan 7, 2013 16:42:35 GMT -5
Here ya go. Some pics... This is the watermelon. I'm pretty sure it's Early Moonbeam. Attachments:
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Post by adamus on Jan 7, 2013 16:45:36 GMT -5
This is the late corn, with the early stuff tassling in the background. Attachments:
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Post by adamus on Jan 7, 2013 16:46:49 GMT -5
My Blue Hubbard Pumpkin as a baby. Attachments:
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Post by adamus on Jan 7, 2013 16:48:22 GMT -5
And, these are my "Farthest North Mix" melons. Attachments:
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Post by raymondo on Jan 7, 2013 19:03:01 GMT -5
The Astronomy Domine is starting to tassel, first noticed at 295 GDD:10°C and currently at 362 GDD:10°C. The flour corn hasn't shown any signs yet and it's currently 486 GDD:10°C. Edit: I didn't look carefully enough. Cortona's flour corn is tasseling.
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Post by steev on Jan 8, 2013 2:17:05 GMT -5
Well, that's certainly very specific. Damned shame I don't know what it signifies. 'Spose I should, but I don"t.
Good luck, however.
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Post by adamus on Jan 8, 2013 4:56:18 GMT -5
I don't know either Steev. Maybe God Does Deliveries.?
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Post by 12540dumont on Jan 8, 2013 13:23:19 GMT -5
That's Growing Degree Days, which Joseph and a few others have made long posts about. You can look up your growing degree days and it's more accurate than a package that says 120 days till maturing. As in are those 120 days in Point Arena, CA (where it's foggy a lot), or 120 days in Needles, CA (where you can fry eggs on the sidewalk)? Growing degrees (GDs) is defined as the number of temperature degrees above a certain threshold base temperature, which varies among crop species. So for corn that threshold base is 50F or 10C. So your GDD is the high for the day + the low for the day, divided by 2 (-50 F or whatever your threshold is). 80F High + 40F Low = 120 (divided by 2 = 60) minus 50 = 10 That's your GDD for the day. April through mid May I NORMALLY have 15 GDD each Day From May on I have 20-25 GDD And in late Summer I have 30 GDD. So how does this help? I need 125 GDD between pollens of corn (5-7 days). Augusta Corn 79 Days to Maturity - 1248 GGD from planting to silk, 1856 to maturity. Sugar Buns 70 Days to Maturity - 1113 GDD from planting to silk, 1645 to Maturity. (If I plant them on the same day, no big deal, but what happens if I plant the Augusta and then 2 weeks go by, is it safe to plant the Sugar Buns?) IF your corn package has the days to maturity on it, multiply it by 23.5 to find the days to maturity (Sugar Buns = 70x23.5 =1645. GDDs to silk = (15.1 times "day" rating) minus 311.56 ex. a 120 "day" variety ~ (15.1 x 120) - 356 = 1500 GDDs to silk
82 "day" sweet corn hybrid that documented ~ 1300 GDDs to silk. Using that as a foundation, I used the "15.1" value from the above equation and either added or subtracted GDDs based on (15.1 x "days" difference from 82).
ex. Your 70 "day" Sugar Buns = 12 "days" shorter than 82, so (-12 x 15.1) = -181 GDDs. Subtract that from the 1300 GDDs of the 82 "day" equals 1118 GDDs guesstimate. This value differs slightly from what I first gave you because the multiplier was actually 15.075 and I rounded it to 15.1 for these examples.There, that should make your day. I was given this information by Rob Nielsen from the Chew & Chat Cafe at Purdue University. Who helped me figure out a complex planting of 8 wildly different corns and thankfully provided me the math to do it myself in the future. Be careful mixing sweet corns and dent/flour corns using this math, as sweet corns grow slightly differently. I have used this for 2 seasons and it works for me
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Post by RpR on Jan 8, 2013 14:17:52 GMT -5
Does anyone, whether farmer or gardener, grow any of the old fashioned open pollinated or hybrid field corns down there. Here a catalog called Shumway's sells, in bulk old fashioned types such as Lancaster Sure Crop, Silvermine, Boone County White, Goliath etc. that are all tall, 12-15+ feet high.
Some is grown for feed and silage, while I just grow it mostly to feed the squirrels. (Got a couple of real fat ones this winter.)
I was just wondering if the old types are available down there or if you have other old types we do not.
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