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Post by Alan on Aug 21, 2011 21:58:00 GMT -5
BTW Joseph, the popcorn looks awesome and I look forward to giving it a go!
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 22, 2011 11:36:36 GMT -5
Hey Joseph: When you go to the market do you sell the popcorn on the cob or off? How much?
I'd like to buy some from you for my CSA. They'd get a bang out of it.
Send me a PM and let's work it out. Holly
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 22, 2011 11:51:39 GMT -5
My popcorn typically matures after the local markets have closed for the year, so if my CSA baskets get popcorn at all it's still on the cob and still needs to dry. Next year I may offer it shelled by the bag through the whole growing season since I am growing so much.
Pricing depends on lots of things. Last year I sold the F2 popcorn as decorative corn for about $0.50 per cob. I am growing a lot more this year, and it's more popcorn and less segregating jumble, so I'll expect to shell it for use as popcorn. I'll probably price it around $4/pound shelled. Although food prices are changing so quickly that what I was getting last year is a poor indication of what I could expect to get this year. For example I am currently getting $1 per cob for decorative corn. In 2009 I was getting $0.20 per ear for popcorn or decorative corn.
PM me in about November if I get spacey and forget to send seeds.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 16, 2011 16:22:32 GMT -5
I've started harvesting my popcorn. It's looking really good this year. I sure love the 3rd year of a breeding project. It seems magical when the desired phenotype is there and growing so well.
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Post by 12540dumont on Oct 16, 2011 17:34:43 GMT -5
It's so purdy, I almost cried.
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Post by Darth Slater on Oct 16, 2011 20:58:23 GMT -5
Wow, isn't that kinda big for popcorn?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 16, 2011 21:07:04 GMT -5
I didn't like little wimpy ears of popcorn, so I crossed it with Indian corn.
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Post by steev on Oct 17, 2011 0:06:04 GMT -5
I was wondering about some of those wide kernals; does it still pop well and make proportionally large popcorn?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 17, 2011 9:22:40 GMT -5
I don't know. I'll pay attention to size when I pop these. It'll be a few weeks still. My first inclination is to say that final popped size depends a lot on the nature of the endosperm and not so much on the volume of the kernel. (glassier pops bigger)
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Post by steev on Oct 17, 2011 10:33:17 GMT -5
I suppose it makes sense that glassier would build to higher pressure before popping.
I recall that when I tried popping a type of mini ornamental corn, it had smaller kernals than common popcorn and produced smaller popped corn. It was excellent popcorn, except it tended to be blown out of a popper before popping, being such small kernals.
I expect the same from popping sorghum. Back to the stove-top.
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Post by steev on Oct 17, 2011 10:42:28 GMT -5
I wonder whether anyone's ever gotten enough color throughout the kernal to produce colored popcorn. There's a goldmine, if possible. Don't suggest it to Monsanto or they'll splice in chameleon genes and we'll have to get used to popcorn that tastes like chicken.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 17, 2011 10:56:26 GMT -5
No color in my popcorn... A few are startling white, but most are just plain old white.
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Post by blueadzuki on Oct 17, 2011 13:31:11 GMT -5
I suppose it makes sense that glassier would build to higher pressure before popping. I recall that when I tried popping a type of mini ornamental corn, it had smaller kernals than common popcorn and produced smaller popped corn. It was excellent popcorn, except it tended to be blown out of a popper before popping, being such small kernals. . Reminds me of when I tried to actually pop the leftovers I had of Chires's baby (the red when mature tiny cobbed corn that seeds of change sells as a good choice for "baby corn" they pop fine, but the resultant popped kernels are about the size of those little bits on the bottom of a normal popped kernel.
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Post by blueadzuki on Oct 17, 2011 13:40:00 GMT -5
I wonder whether anyone's ever gotten enough color throughout the kernal to produce colored popcorn. There's a goldmine, if possible. Don't suggest it to Monsanto or they'll splice in chameleon genes and we'll have to get used to popcorn that tastes like chicken. I seem to recall Sand Hill offered a popcorn they claimed "popped in a raimbow of colors" , but when I tried some, it all popped white. Part of the problem with getting colored popcorn is that very few corns have pigment in the actual interior of the kernel, beyond the coat and the aleurone right in the core. And that's what you'd need for colored popcorn; a corn which was pigmented down to the core. Also remember that most of the corn pigments don't do well with heat especially dry heat (which is what a popcorn kernel goes through when it is popped.) The closest I've seen to colored popcorn was with one which had the gene that gave it purple pigment in the germ. That was very very sligtly tan (of course I may have just cooked it too long g>) beyond that, white all the way.
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Post by Darth Slater on Oct 17, 2011 18:44:39 GMT -5
You corn geniuses should make a GIANT popcorn!! So those idiots that always sit in back of me at the movies wont take 24 bites out of one tiny kernel!!
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