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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 16, 2013 13:01:13 GMT -5
What a great corn!!!! That's the variety that I grew up eating. We grew a vast crop and cut it off the cobs to fill the freezer for winter eating. Of course we ate it fresh also.
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Post by 12540dumont on May 16, 2013 15:06:36 GMT -5
Ox, Is Bronze Beauty your own creation?
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Post by oxbowfarm on May 16, 2013 19:15:25 GMT -5
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Post by 12540dumont on May 20, 2013 13:14:34 GMT -5
Dar's Cherokee Flour Corn Attachments:
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Post by steev on Jun 2, 2013 23:01:02 GMT -5
Joseph's Cherry Sweet that I planted last Saturday was sprouting this Saturday.
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Post by RpR on Jun 3, 2013 16:42:11 GMT -5
I have the south garden finished and put in:
Warners Strubbes Brown John Haulk Goliath Cheyenne Pencil Cob Aztec Giant White Incan Giant White
Plus some GMO type field corn whose I.D. number I never got before the sign was removed
Sweet: Bodacious Iochief Whipples White ---------------------------------------------
Corn appears to being germinating at a high percentage so far. Lots of rain in the past two weeks, with more coming. It looks good so far.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jun 13, 2013 7:20:43 GMT -5
Mike put a row of Ambrosia and a row of some other sweet, I can't remember the name of, right along the edge of the property we share with "The Farmer". He has planted (of all things) CORN this year! SO, the big question is, will our corn die when he sprays the round up? If it doesn't, we'll know SOMEbody is playing hanky panky with seed and not saying anything about it. If it dies, then we know we have a reliably seed source. Sorta sad....
All the other corn is doing well. All the wax types, the Truckers Fav, and popcorn too! Looking forward to the first ears of corn this summer.
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Post by RpR on Jun 24, 2013 14:34:32 GMT -5
A few weeks ago it looked like I was getting very good germination, now it is fifty percent if one averages all types out---- at best.
I can not figure it out. Even if the soil gave poor yield that would not stop germination and a couple of years ago I cleaned out old,very old seed and had incredibly good germination. The corn in the old Rose garden which has incredibly rich soil, one out three types planted came up.
Well this way I can get into the garden earlier this fall and put manure down as there is noting in many area to avoid driving on.
Even the volunteer pumpkins and squash which come up every year, no show.
Go figure.
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Post by Andre on Jun 25, 2013 17:15:14 GMT -5
Weeks "Giant Edible Field Corn" Do you know how giant is this one ?
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Post by RpR on Jun 26, 2013 1:44:07 GMT -5
Weeks "Giant Edible Field Corn" Do you know how giant is this one ? Should get from twelve to fifteen feet tall but sometimes the names are a bit optimistic. In that acidic soil your corn should grow well as would roses.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jun 26, 2013 11:33:12 GMT -5
Florianni Red Flint Cherokee White Flour and Joseph's Paradise Sweet The sweet is almost ready. Usually I plant at least 4-5 varieties and this year only 3. I'm slowing down. And I couldn't make up my mind between Dar's popcorn, John's Maize Morado and a yellow Italian corn. So, I haven't planted any of them. I guess I should go out and pick green beans. Can't get much motivation this morning. I canned till near midnight and I wish I could go back to bed for an hour! Leo shooed me out of the Paradise corn. I keep picking cobs to try. They aren't quite ready, but I bet by the 4th.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jun 26, 2013 20:28:25 GMT -5
Not yet Andre. The tallest corn so far for us is about 6' and that's the Trucker's Favorite. The GMO next door is already about 10', but he planted a couple weeks earlier than we did.
It never occurred to me that the plants themselves should be particularly large. I wanted to try it because the COBS are supposed to be huge. We shall see what we shall see!!!
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Post by steev on Jun 26, 2013 22:50:10 GMT -5
Really like your avatar, RpR; so minimalist.
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Post by RpR on Jun 27, 2013 14:12:00 GMT -5
I chucked most of the seed packets from the plantings that were doa, so, I replanted new seed that was on sale and while it did not pop out of the ground in seven to ten days, the replants may, by the grace of God, actually get near knee high by the fourth of July.
Golden Bantam replaced the Ruby Red and Jubilee replaced the NK199. Amarillo and Cuzco Cancha were hit and miss in germination but the Blue Claredge and Oregon Evergreen were near one hundred percent.
I may give Redwood Seed Company a call and ask them why there seeds have such abysmally low germination. Last year the odd weather played a big roll, but this year the weather was not that odd.
Down south, The Bodacious and Iochief, both from Farmer's Seed and Nursery were zero germination, yet Whipples White, from an even older packet in the same former rose garden had at least seventy percent germination. The Aztec White and Incan White form Redwood were also zero germination.
Warners, John Haulk and Goliath were about forty percent germination.
I transplanted those that came up into clusters so the one year I have no squash or pumpkins, I have more than enough room for them to grow in.
I will be heading south later this week, maybe a vine or two popped up int he past week.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jun 27, 2013 14:18:34 GMT -5
RPR, when you talk to Redwood, tell them my Lincoln peas had 0, that's right zero germination.
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