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Post by jondear on Aug 16, 2016 20:14:13 GMT -5
The parents of cogent? I have never grown it. It just seem like too long of a season corn for my location. Although some years, I'm sure it would ripen, we seem to be having longer falls with good weather.
I can say this on breeding corn... If you welcome diversity, and enjoy this sort of thing, you shouldn't be afraid of trying it. It isn't this scary thing that "the man" would have you think it is. I've enjoyed the process so far, and look forward to my future in it.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Aug 17, 2016 12:24:35 GMT -5
Reading this impresses me and makes me wish I had a lot more land and time. This year because I had it, I had saved one cob of hybrid Country Gentlemen, actually just found it rather than saved it, and a packet of op CG mixed them in one block. Having read this I wish I had planted each to it own row rather than just mixed them. It is doing well after taking a long time to come up. Now I assume all ears will be shoepeg but what is the difference between a hybrid CG and the op CG. What are the parents of the hybrid. I've always wanted to breed a colored Indian corn version of county gentleman (not sure whether i would save it as sweet corn or a flint corn or both). The idea comes from the fact that the first summer i planted corn i planted some Indian corn that had been saved by my grandmother and possibly from older generations from new mexico and we had one that had irregular rows like country gentleman but it was a hard red flint corn. I have since lost the seeds, but it would make a fun project.
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