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Post by canadamike on Mar 28, 2009 22:48:20 GMT -5
Since we are starting a small farm market in downtown Rockland this year, I intend to make some money from sweet corn as soon as I can. At 5$ a dozen, it is hard to resist. So today, to save time later, I have started to fill my 288 cells trays with it, and should be finished tomorrow. I will transplant isome of my earliest to hasten production. I bought a whole case of 288s.
They are in a dry peat starting mix,piled one on top of the other I'll simply have to water them to start them fast. I'll also do that with a few other crops like lettuces to minimize work in the peak period.
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Post by pugs on Mar 28, 2009 23:30:17 GMT -5
Michel,
In the past I've started corn in a couple of 72 trays and planted it out at the same time most people were planting the seeds out. It worked great. I can't remember where I read it, but the corn plants are a bit frost tolerant where the seeds and small seedlings aren't. I was existing in Klamath Falls Oregon at the time, where it has snowed in July, so I was just trying to find a way to have corn ripen there.
Luther Burbank used to pre-sprout his corn seed, I think on damp sand, covered with burlap, to have corn to sell from his market farm two weeks ahead of anyone else in the area. This was before he moved to California and became a full time plant breeder.
Pugs
Good luck with it.
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Post by canadamike on Mar 29, 2009 4:02:04 GMT -5
Thanks my friend. I've done it with 100% success last year. It is a great way to overcome germination problems.
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Post by bunkie on Mar 29, 2009 9:09:48 GMT -5
the last couple of years, we have planted corn directly in flats with holes for drainage. amazingly enough, the roots tend not to tangle and transplant easily. makes for a nice head start. we do this now with the grain crops and more.
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