Post by blueadzuki on Sept 9, 2014 11:02:17 GMT -5
Hi all
Yesterday began the first overtures of ornamental corn selling season at the local supermarkets and I already have something to report
You remember last year I mentioned finding a miniature popcorn cob that, based on the appearance SEEMED to have some Glass Gem in it's ancestry (note this has nothing to do with Joseph's work on trying to interbreed Glass gem and popcorn, this is completely independent)
Well it looks like someone else got hold of an ear, and bred it out, because there is now a LOT of it around. I wound up with about 8 ears, but there was probably a lot more (the dim light in the supermarket made it a little hard to see color wise. Next time I'll remember to check everything with my flashlight.)
In fact one ear I bought appears to be BETTER than the one above (the one above has an awful lot of white), according to my admittedly arbitrary standards of what makes a Glass Gem ear "better" or "worse". I tend to focus on a wide selection of colors, with no color noticeably predominating or absent ( a lot of the GG sold around here is mostly white, or yellow, or blue, a true "gem" of an ear is rare)
No clue as to where it is all coming from. The corn packages said "Product of Canada" but that may not be accurate. Canadian law says that a product can be marked as a Canadian product if 51% or more of it's value was created in Canada. The corn in question had holes drilled in the center of the cobs and dowels glued in, to make them usable in floral arrangements. If the drilling and gluing added more value to the product than the cost of the corn ears themselves, they could be from elsewhere. The original cob came from David Shantz farms, Zion Pennsylvania. Since he stocks corn to all of the supermarkets, it would not surprise me if he stocks to some floral supply companies as well.
Yesterday began the first overtures of ornamental corn selling season at the local supermarkets and I already have something to report
You remember last year I mentioned finding a miniature popcorn cob that, based on the appearance SEEMED to have some Glass Gem in it's ancestry (note this has nothing to do with Joseph's work on trying to interbreed Glass gem and popcorn, this is completely independent)
Well it looks like someone else got hold of an ear, and bred it out, because there is now a LOT of it around. I wound up with about 8 ears, but there was probably a lot more (the dim light in the supermarket made it a little hard to see color wise. Next time I'll remember to check everything with my flashlight.)
In fact one ear I bought appears to be BETTER than the one above (the one above has an awful lot of white), according to my admittedly arbitrary standards of what makes a Glass Gem ear "better" or "worse". I tend to focus on a wide selection of colors, with no color noticeably predominating or absent ( a lot of the GG sold around here is mostly white, or yellow, or blue, a true "gem" of an ear is rare)
No clue as to where it is all coming from. The corn packages said "Product of Canada" but that may not be accurate. Canadian law says that a product can be marked as a Canadian product if 51% or more of it's value was created in Canada. The corn in question had holes drilled in the center of the cobs and dowels glued in, to make them usable in floral arrangements. If the drilling and gluing added more value to the product than the cost of the corn ears themselves, they could be from elsewhere. The original cob came from David Shantz farms, Zion Pennsylvania. Since he stocks corn to all of the supermarkets, it would not surprise me if he stocks to some floral supply companies as well.