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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 7, 2014 11:52:22 GMT -5
You're probably right...the corn snapped it up. I think I'll have to call Davy Tree to grind the things, when they come out. It's official it's now taller than Santa Domingo Posole, which I thought were trees yielding corn.
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Post by grano on Aug 7, 2014 13:21:41 GMT -5
Holly,
What pre-plant irrigation do you do?
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 7, 2014 14:22:35 GMT -5
I put the drippers on as I'm planting. So I can see where to plant. Then I leave them go for 20 minutes as each corn is planted. 2 days later I water them again for 20 minutes. The following week they go on for 60 2x a week. Then to 120 minutes for the full gallon per week for the balance of the season.
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Post by grano on Aug 7, 2014 20:50:01 GMT -5
Amazing. You probably didn't get more than 6-7" rain last season. What is your soil type?
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 8, 2014 1:58:21 GMT -5
I have 90% Placentina Sandy Loam and a bit of Oxnard Silt about 10% for about 6 feet, below that is adobe clay, the yellow one. I have two seasons, lose your boot, break your shovel. We are in the break your shovel season. We are lucky that the soil holds water longer than some soils. However, we've had years when the soil was just so saturated that we would put down wooden pallets in the winter to get to the back field. Right now the soil is dust for about 3 inches. It's drier than I've ever seen it. At this point if I was going to till, I would have to irrigate....just to keep down the danger of fire, as well as keep my soil on the ground. I can see how a big wind could pick up all the soil and carry it away. Reminds me of something scarey!
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 9, 2014 19:41:27 GMT -5
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Post by DarJones on Aug 9, 2014 23:30:12 GMT -5
I distinctly heard Holly sniff when she said that. "Dar's 4 toed Corn" indeed! See if I send you any of this high protein corn that I have in abundance this year! >>>>
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Post by steev on Aug 10, 2014 21:53:30 GMT -5
High protein corn? Sniff. Where? Sniff, sniff.
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 20, 2014 16:35:32 GMT -5
I did not sniff, I had bloody nose from being on the ladder in this corn. Yeah, the altitude gets to me. I've lived at 289 feet above sea level most of my life. Those extra feet in the air looking at Dar's four toed corn...really got to me.
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 13, 2015 18:27:32 GMT -5
Now for some seriousness on Dar's 4 Toed Corn.
One of the reasons it's drought tolerant is that it has those toes. Apparently through some of the research I have been doing on drought and corn and heat and corn is that has a deeper root (rather than root mass) makes for more drought tolerant corn. Yields can be improved by hilling, which makes the corn less susceptible to drought, but boy are they harder to get out!
Dar's corn out yielded every other corn. I suspect that part of this is because of the size of the cobs. (more on this later). Now regarding heat, when corn is in anthesis viable pollen from the tassel must land on a viable silk and travel the length of the silk to fertilize the egg. Every kernel (egg) of corn on the cob has a silk or stigma that has to be fertilized in order to have a fully developed ear of corn.
Every future kernel must have a viable silk.
If temperatures exceed 95 degrees and it is dry during the anthesis of corn then pollination is unlikely to occur; which means no grain. It was not above 95 when Dar's corn was in silk, but it was darn close!
That’s pretty much the same with rice and wheat and tomatoes. So in the future, I have to worry not only about drought but these ridiculous temperatures. (Today is 75 degrees F!) (Plant early! Plant early!)
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Post by DarJones on Mar 13, 2015 22:19:17 GMT -5
I'm laughing at Holly thinking 95 degrees is ridiculous. My personal thermometer goes solidly into the "ridiculous" reading when it hits 107 in the shade. At that point, I drop whatever I am doing and go hide in the nearest creek until things cool down a bit. I spent 27 days in the creek in 1988 and 35 days in 2007. Fortunately, I carry my fishing rod and do something useful with my time. I sleep while the fish spend endless hours playing "wake the fisherman".
Holly, did you try making corn meal from it?
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 14, 2015 12:22:03 GMT -5
Dar, I'm still getting it off the cob! Okay, okay, I'll grind some and make muffins.
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