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Post by happyskunk on Aug 26, 2010 1:55:42 GMT -5
I have finally started a page about the corn I'm growing. Please visit it here and tell me what you think confluencefarm.blogspot.com/p/corn-project.html. I will keep adding additional info as I have time. Earlier I posted about having some Maize Morado. After checking my notes I find this is actually three stalks of Chulpi Cancha. To my surprise and excitement one of the stalks fell over and started to tassel. Silver Queen is also starting to tassel so I may be able to do a controlled cross. Chulpi Cancha has interesting kernels in that many are have shriveled like sweet corn and half like flour corn. Some of the kernels are all shriveled. Also they are all big! Should make for some very interesting crosses. At least I know a bit about the timing and can try next year too. Maybe start Silver Queen a week or two later. Also plant some Painted Mountain really late! Two of the stalks of Chulpi Cancha were freestanding today with one reaching nearly 15 feet tall. I have now added a support and hope it tassels soon. Below is a picture with the Chulpi Canca standing well above the 10 foot tall corn that is tasseling.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 26, 2010 2:21:50 GMT -5
Nice web site.
That timing thing can be a real bugger.... I started planting corn on May 5th, and planted through June, and it looks like I will run out of sugary enhanced pollen before some of my Indian corns start silking (that were planted on May 5th)... Boo Hoo. Perhaps I'll be able to beg some pollen from a neighbor.
And the LISP festival corn I planted silked before the 65 day corn planted beside it, and I wasn't paying attention so the cobs mostly went unpollinated. (There was enough drift from further away rows to pollinate a few kernels.)
And to make things even worse... The 65 day corn I planted on May 5th matured last week, and the same corn I planted at the end of June is maturing next week. (7 weeks difference in planting time, but only 2 weeks difference in maturity.) And my 65 day corn, my 75 day corn, and my 85 day corn are going to mature within a week of each other.
And then there is the corn in my other field where the maturity date in the same variety planted on the same day is two weeks later in some parts of the row than in others based on differences in the soil chemistry.
Too bad I didn't keep better records about timing... I've taken good photos, so I guess that I could put together a time-line from them.
I sometimes wonder if I could plant Painted Mountain after our fall monsoon starts and still get a crop?
Regards, Joseph
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Post by blueadzuki on Aug 26, 2010 11:25:28 GMT -5
I was going to write something about how envious I was that your peruvian corn had actually tasseled while mine was basically a washout (I'm working under the assumption that "Chulpi Canca" and "Chulpe Cancha" are the same thing enromous kerneled giant floury corn from the Peruvian area). However I was just out to the wreck that is my corn patch and to my astonishment one of the plants actually has the beginnings of a tassel. It's still just a lick (you can see it by looking down the corn plant (thanks to fallovers and other stresses, none of my plants have thier tops any higher than my waist.)) I'll be running agaist the frost (assuming any of the plants even silk) and the yield of my whole patch is pretty much going to be slim to none at the best, but at least I know the stuff can in theory come to term up here (and also that the large quantity of cancha I bough at the market to find suitable seed for stock (my chanca, as I mentioned on the forum when I planted it is colored while I assume yours was the standard white or yellow version) wasn't a massive waste of time and money on my part.
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Post by happyskunk on Aug 26, 2010 21:08:57 GMT -5
Today was not good for the Chulpi Cancha. The two stalks without the tassels got wiped out by 50mph wind gusts and half my Silver Queen is toast. 100 degrees today and tomorrow the forecast high is 75. I still hope I can salvage something when all the bowing dust and ash settles. Amazingly some 10 foot tall corn still stands with no support (the plot where I planted Hopi Blue, Six Shooter, and Texas Shoepeg). Blueadzuki, I got my Chulpi Cancha seeds from www.ecoseeds.com/. This is a large half sweet corn. Not the Giant Incan White Flour corn as you describe. A good photo of Chulpi Cancha seeds is here www.northexonline.com/producto_categorizado.php?codigo=71&codsub=30.
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Post by happyskunk on Aug 26, 2010 21:13:16 GMT -5
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Post by blueadzuki on Aug 26, 2010 22:01:13 GMT -5
Oh that one (What I usally call Cancha Dulce) You are right that isnt the one I grew though I have a little of that in reserve as well (in particular Ive got about a dozen kernels of the stuff with a real nice chinmark pattern)What I grew is closer to the stuff you are waiting to come back into stock.
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