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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 2, 2013 4:32:00 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 Color is all in the eye of the beholder really. In the case of the red-striped kernels with either white or yellow (or maroon) underneath they are usually referred to as "chinmarked" i believe. But i don't really like that term, so striped is perfectly fine with me. I think there might be another common term for it, but i can't think of it at the moment. If anyone else can think of the other term for the striping please chime in. Nice corn! I have some of those same colors in my Indian Corn that i grow. So much more interesting than whatever boring colored corn most people grow!
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 2, 2013 4:35:18 GMT -5
and what's with the red color on the cob core? I think the chewed kernels are cocky damage. T Depending on the genetics you can get corn that has completely red or deep dark purple cob cores (usually along with purple husks). Those are really a sight to behold! Very beautiful in my opinion!
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Post by raymondo on Mar 2, 2013 6:13:35 GMT -5
Looks great T. Some beautiful corn there. Any chance of a few kernels from the red cob?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 2, 2013 11:28:48 GMT -5
Templeton: Thanks for photos. The first year I grew Astronomy Domine corn, I saved the seeds in opaque paper envelopes. And on the outside of each packet I wrote things like "Red" or "Yellow"... The primary colors that I learned in Kindergarten. Then, I thought that I would group them into similar colors when I planted them... Ooops!!! That was a disaster, because the seeds were not red. They were maroon, and rust, and cherry, and copper, and salmon, and burgundy, and port, and lavender, and terracotta, and pink, and all sorts of other reddish colors that were not in my vocabulary then and that I don't yet have a very firm grasp on. Same thing with the blues, and grays, and greens, and yellows, and whites. Art is foreign to me so I don't really have the vocabulary to describe corn colors. I only saw one "Black". That was on corn I received from Cortona. Gorgeous black blotches on a white background. These days, I save corn seeds in clear plastic envelopes. That way, I can group the colors together even if I don't have names for them.
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 2, 2013 12:15:12 GMT -5
Templeton, Very nice work. Did you get to eat any of that Ashworth?
I think corn is one of those plants that likes lots of friends.
I would really like to have 200 seeds from this year, 200 seeds from last year, 200 more from some one else and keep mixing them and planting them, saving them and mixing from the year before.
I keep hoping that Cortona finds more of the Trentino/Florianni red corn for me. That's the one that is really short in the Gene pool.
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Post by raymondo on Mar 3, 2013 15:51:54 GMT -5
Long after everything else has finished silking, the Peruvian corn has begun tasselling. It's autumn here with the deciduous trees on the turn. I'm hoping that there is enough time before Jack returns to harvest a cob.
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Post by templeton on Mar 4, 2013 0:26:14 GMT -5
Looks great T. Some beautiful corn there. Any chance of a few kernels from the red cob? A big chance. I take it you mean the cob with the red cob material rather than the red kernels (tho you are welcome to both, of course) Spent a half hour last night just inspecting the cobs, dreaming of whole blocks of corn with violet, lavender, pink and purple cobs...cornography? T
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Post by steev on Mar 4, 2013 1:10:10 GMT -5
Contemplating a designer line of out-house supplies?
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Post by templeton on Mar 4, 2013 2:16:01 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Mar 4, 2013 11:47:01 GMT -5
Perfumed goose necks versus corncobs, truly stark the contrast of divinity with humanity.
Corn downunder indeed.
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Post by RpR on Apr 19, 2013 16:32:18 GMT -5
Are you boys down there is the last days of harvest or beyond that?
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Post by raymondo on Apr 19, 2013 16:41:24 GMT -5
Where I live, Jack arrived last night. Not sure what the temperature was but must have been -2 or -3°C. Frost wasn't forecast but I decided to harvest what was left of my corn (and chillies and eggplants) which was drying down on the plants but is now hanging inside to finish. No more corn till next summer. I just sent some corn off to another Australian board member who lives in the tropical north. He can grow corn pretty much all year round as far as temperatures are concerned. His issue is the wet season.
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Post by rowan on Apr 19, 2013 17:23:33 GMT -5
Jack arrived here for the fist time this year last night also. A very light frost but enough to have me planning my oca and yacon harvest later and reminding myself to get some storage bins for the harvest. My corn and sorghum have already been harvested - the sorghum by the parrots
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 19, 2013 21:40:20 GMT -5
Templeton...That's corn porn. We were Sears Roebuck girls. Ahh, just when you think it's safe...after 2 months without a frost, we had one 2 nights ago. The first frost after April 15th in 20 years of farming. The taties look bad. Jack is a very bad man. Sigh.
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Post by steev on Apr 19, 2013 22:02:38 GMT -5
"The tropical north", what a concept, very mind-expanding; it's such a big world, however much it seems to be shrinking.
I'm just in process of up-potting my peppers and eggplants from sprouting, looking to plant out in May.
Corn transplants are looking as impatient as I am, though I've not yet the nerve to plant direct-seed. I think the peas had better get it done, as it's feeling like bean-planting time, though I well remember when I jumped the gun with Urd beans: they sprouted well and got frost-killed; slower ones sprouted and got frost-killed; the truly laggard ones sprouted, got frost-discouraged, and didn't produce diddley.
Oh, well; nothing ventured, etc.
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