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Post by grano on Feb 15, 2014 12:14:36 GMT -5
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Post by raymondo on Feb 15, 2014 17:06:58 GMT -5
She's offering a landrace of moschata squash developed by Joseph Landreth from Utah. Amazing that there should be two Joseph's in Utah with their own moschata landrace.
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Post by RpR on Mar 12, 2014 16:27:48 GMT -5
I found Early Cogent hybrid shoe-peg corn at the American Seed Company in Penn.
That is the only corn I am absolutely trying this year so far as between 2012s corn looking like I had 12 ft tall plot of giant, though producing, grass and last years stand that look like I had simply let it try to reseed itself, I am not sure, with the possible late spring, how gung-ho I will be.
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Post by RpR on Jul 14, 2014 23:28:39 GMT -5
My corn this year, while germination was OK, is in bad shape.
Once again other matters prevented me from getting my sheep manure into the garden and one half the plants are a horrid light shade of green. Oddly some plants in the same row are normal and other are sickly.
When I get back I will have to fertilize the heck out of it but I have never had corn go from excellent to pathetic so quickly before.
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Post by DarJones on Jul 17, 2014 22:08:03 GMT -5
I got in a few rows of Cherokee Squaw and had a successful cross with a couple of types of high protein corn. Also have a few rows of my drought tolerant white corn that is derived from Hickory King but has been repeatedly selected for drought tolerance. And I grew a couple of rows of Country Gentleman X Silver King which happens to make fantastically good creamed corn. I'm saving seed from the CG X SK with the intent of developing a sugar enhanced shoepeg corn.
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Post by steev on Jul 17, 2014 23:09:09 GMT -5
Anything of drought tolerance is of great interest to me.
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Post by flowerweaver on Jul 18, 2014 9:46:48 GMT -5
She's offering a landrace of moschata squash developed by Joseph Landreth from Utah. Amazing that there should be two Joseph's in Utah with their own moschata landrace. Joseph cleared this up somewhere on the forum. She is offering his seed, she just couldn't read his handwriting which said 'Joseph's Landrace' and that got translated to Landreth. I think he said she's corrected it online now but not in her print material.
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Post by flowerweaver on Jul 18, 2014 9:52:13 GMT -5
Cherokee Squaw was the only corn out of twenty that had seriously poor germination in my drought landrace project. Other seeds from the same source had no issue. I may try it again from a different source.
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Post by raymondo on Jul 19, 2014 7:08:05 GMT -5
She's offering a landrace of moschata squash developed by Joseph Landreth from Utah. Amazing that there should be two Joseph's in Utah with their own moschata landrace. Joseph cleared this up somewhere on the forum. She is offering his seed, she just couldn't read his handwriting which said 'Joseph's Landrace' and that got translated to Landreth. I think he said she's corrected it online now but not in her print material. Yes, it has been cleared up. The comment was just a little fun, not serious.
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Post by RpR on Jul 23, 2014 10:40:13 GMT -5
Now that I have my Aunt settled in I do not get down to the south garden weekly as I did earlier. As I said though last I saw it it looked animic and I pulled enough weeds to fill to the point of no more the garden waste container the city give us. It is five feet high and about three feet in diameter.
I have a lot of nitrogen fertilizer both granular and liquid. Would it be better to side dress heavily or mix the liquid up and dribble some down the center of each stalk as it is designed to be absorded?
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Post by DarJones on Jul 24, 2014 0:44:18 GMT -5
Dribbling liquid nitrogen into a corn stalk whorl will kill the leaves and the stalk. Foliar fed nitrogen is made to be absorbed when sprayed in a very thin layer onto leaves. Your best best is to side dress with the nitrogen at a rate of about a level teaspoon per plant.
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Post by 12540dumont on Jul 24, 2014 19:54:23 GMT -5
foothillfarm.blogspot.com/ How tall Dar's "Drought Tolerant" corn has grown. All the other drought tolerant corn is half this size. You can't get too close because the noise of it growing is deafening. Also today, I got to meet Grano! I purchased a C.S. Bell La Campana from Grano. Now I can make Masa! Tortillas are in my future. Corn tortillas. Heck, we have flour tortilla every week. So, I brought Grano some HG Goodness... Crooked Joe crookneck Jade Numbat ala Ray & Oxbow Cherokee Flour Corn ala Dar A Mill Creek Onion from the onion trials and Saffron Shallots from this year's onion extravaganza. It's so fun meeting folks from HG. I also got a great bottle of Chabo Wine from Grano. So no more typing for me. I'm going to have a cold beer.
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Post by grano on Jul 24, 2014 20:57:27 GMT -5
That's charbono, Holly. A very pleasant afternoon. Lots to talk about. Looking forward to culinary delights.
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Post by DarJones on Jul 25, 2014 3:31:22 GMT -5
Oh My!!! Please tell me you did NOT water the corn at night Holly. Surely you didn't. Don't you know? If you water drought tolerant corn at night, it turns into gremlin corn trees! They will be invading your garden and taking over your raised beds. <<shaking head, forgot to tell her that was really Mogwai corn!>>
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Post by RpR on Aug 10, 2014 2:06:08 GMT -5
I used hose-end spray liquid nitrogen (mixed with Ironite as there was not much and it was simpler to just use one bottle) and on the really sick stuff mixed up some fish and seaweed organic fertilizer in five gallon pails.
All corn is now looking a nice acceptable green and after a heavy dose of irrigation (it is now overly dry here. July was over an inch short of normal rain) seems to be doing OK but stalk size is all over the board so I do not expect a great number of actual ears of corn.
The foliar spray fertilizer worked as well as expected but I was very pleased with how well the corn responded to having the five gallon pails simply poured on the ground in the rows of corn. The dosage was far higher than standard.
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