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Post by raymondo on Jan 30, 2013 23:11:01 GMT -5
Not me thankfully though we've had lots of rain just recently, nearly two inches in one day and one inch the next! Not too bad though as everything was very dry. It was the tail end of a cyclone that hit further north. Where my son lives, much closer to the cyclone, they had major flooding. The town centre was under water for a day! His house was quite safe as it's high up on a hill. His neighbour down the hill wasn't so lucky.
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Post by raymondo on Feb 23, 2013 19:00:05 GMT -5
In the sweet corn patch, a mix of Astronomy Domine, various se+ hybrids, Golden Bantam and a couple of Jospeh's cherry sweet corn, I love the flavour of the bicolour se+ corn, Ambrosia I think, and I tried one of Joseph's cherry sweets. Amazing colour and a great corny tasting cob. I like the sweets that have a good corny taste. This patch is just for seed so I can plant a nice big patch next season.
In the flour corn patch, the Peruvian corn that was among the seeds from cortona is the tallest in the flour corn patch now. It's a very slow grower. It hasn't tasselled yet either, which I suppose is to be expected given its origins, which is not coastal Peru I'm thinking! Each of the corns in that patch have tasselled and silked at quite different times so this year there has been almost no overlap, despite my staggered plantings. I will have to spread them out further next time in order to mix up the genetics.
From what I've read on this forum and elsewhere, I get the feeling that I might have better success with flint corn rather that flour corn. The Northern Tablelands shares rainfall patterns with the tropical zones further north - wet summers and dry winters. To that end, I'll grow out the flint corns I have next season instead of the flour corns. I have some Cascade Creamcap and Floriani Red to try. I'll add some popping corn and some coloured corns of unknown origin that I have. They appear a little glassy so I suspect are more flint than flour.
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Post by templeton on Feb 23, 2013 19:42:13 GMT -5
Ray and adamus have had above average rain, I've had driest spring on record. Even the old Eucalypts in the forest are dying. And I thought the Howard Drought was bad. Not much corn to report, but will take some pics this week. T
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Feb 23, 2013 20:44:22 GMT -5
Ambrosia is the best selling sweet corn at my local seed store.
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Post by steev on Feb 24, 2013 23:56:40 GMT -5
Ray, glad to hear you're growing some of that Joseph's Cherry Sweet; you've eaten it before I have, but I intend a large patch this year.
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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 25, 2013 1:32:47 GMT -5
Joseph, This reminds me. Leo and I have been haggling over the sweet corn plot. So that I don't kill myself like last year, we plan to put in only 2 plantings of sweet corn. (Each about 15 days for each other). Last year I put in 4, which was a perfect amount of corn but too much work for me.
Mystique 74 days which is a SE+ 74 days and either Frosty or Ashworth SE? Which do you think? Which do you need seed of next year?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Feb 25, 2013 9:32:40 GMT -5
Holly: I took your review to heart, and tasted every cob of Frosted before harvest. Selected for tender cobs and sweeter taste... Hoping that doesn't interfere too much with good germination. I've already put seeds in your box. I forget that some of you live in warmer climates. When do you need to be planting corn? Ha! I have plenty of seed from Frosted and Ashworth. Enough already to last for years.
The corn I am most excited to grow this coming season is Paradise. It's getting close to being an open pollinated sugary enhanced sweet corn. Might have been there already if I hadn't flubbed the seed selection process last winter. I'm still working on the poor germination issue... I'm hoping that a cross with Frosty will provide the genes necessary to resolve that problem.
Ashworth is the more refined sweet corn. About 60 days: more consistent.
Frosted is rough around the edges. More like a 70 to 80 day corn. I guess that's to be expected considering the high proportion of Hopi genes that it carries.
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Post by cortona on Feb 25, 2013 13:41:51 GMT -5
wath about your flour corn Joseph?
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Post by templeton on Mar 2, 2013 3:09:22 GMT -5
Well, pulled corn this week. The Ashworth X se+ Some variation in color, didn't get to taste it. There is a difference in the kernels, most very wrinkled, some mildly wrinkled, and a the odd kernel here and there completely smooth. There;s an obvious errant kernel on the third cob from the left. I might just have enough diversity to go on with - if I decide to keep growing corn that is. T Attachments:
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Post by templeton on Mar 2, 2013 3:21:11 GMT -5
southern harvest continued The so called 'Aztec coloured corn' As i was harvesting today i noticed some of the leaves trimmed, then culms lying on the ground, then pelleted poo, then little hoof prints - the goats have got out and into the corn patch - along with the 'roos, lucky to harvest anything really. This was from 'sow by colour' block - It was a block called 'bluey brown pinky' derived, no less, from selected bluey, brown, and pink kernels. If anyone has time, could they explain the correct terminology for some of these kernel colors - i get all confused when people talk about lilac, and purple, and red and blue and black and magenta corn. And how about the stripey red, and the half white half red or yellow kernels? I was never growing corn again until i saw this lot. Close ups to follow T Attachments:
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Post by templeton on Mar 2, 2013 3:22:34 GMT -5
I'm going to post a few close ups, scroll down if you get bored. Attachments:
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Post by templeton on Mar 2, 2013 3:23:21 GMT -5
and a few more... Attachments:
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Post by templeton on Mar 2, 2013 3:24:13 GMT -5
and still more. Attachments:
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Post by templeton on Mar 2, 2013 3:25:00 GMT -5
and still more Attachments:
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Post by templeton on Mar 2, 2013 3:26:39 GMT -5
and what's with the red color on the cob core? I think the chewed kernels are cocky damage. T Attachments:
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