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Post by reed on Feb 9, 2016 10:09:36 GMT -5
Anyone got experience and observations about GB 8 row? I'm trying to select for slender ears with big kernels in all my corn projects. I already have Painted Mountain and Cascade cream Cap that I detasseled last year and pollinated with a number of su and se sweets. They don't have the large kernels I'm looking for but hope some might show up later. I was also able to acquire a little bit of Aunt Mary's (best tasting corn ever) that came from 10 row ears, it is large kernels. I would love to have some first hand descriptions on the configuration of an ear of the GB 8. Slender ears? Large kernels? That kind of stuff.
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Post by Dewdrop on May 19, 2019 19:33:53 GMT -5
I'll try to help the best I can, although Golden Bantam corn was one of a few sweet corn breeds that I grew up on and alongside of.  I know last year I nurtured Golden Bantam corn with 8 rows of kernels, but that might not be the only kind of Golden Bantam corn I grew up with. GB has yellow corn kernels. The cob thickness seems normal to me, but I suppose GB cobs could be considered somewhat slender; I was surprised how thick the cob was on Country Gentleman corn last year by comparison. The GB kernels seems normal to me, they get a bit more plump on one end, but were at least twice as long as the very short kernels of Country Gentleman corn. The GB definitely has a different flavor than Country Gentleman corn, unfortunately I haven't figured out how to describe it beyond 'corny' and pretty tasty. If we wait a season, mebe I can take some measurements of the cob if this year's GB is an 8-row. |
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Post by prairiegardens on Feb 5, 2020 14:13:46 GMT -5
slightly off topic, for which I apologize, but I was looking at information about Aunt Marys as it was a variety I had never heard of. One site says it's 60 days and another says it's 90, which is quite a spread. What sort of time frame was yours? I am always looking for short season good tasting corn so this one at first seemed to have potential but now...
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Post by reed on Feb 5, 2020 16:27:25 GMT -5
I haven't grown it by it's self for some time but as I recall 90 days might be to fully dried seed. Sixty or maybe seventy depending on your local GDD is more like it for prime eating. It is IMO about the best tasting corn there is. A close second and maturing about the same is Tucker's Indian Sweet. If I was to continue with sweet corn I might cross my grex back on to those two and save seed from just them.
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Post by massachusettsgrower on May 9, 2020 16:12:16 GMT -5
I saw the variety listed, and my concern was the cob length listed as only .52 of a foot, or just over 6". I was concerned fhis wasn't much of an ear to yield out of a single stalk, but I since read in another thread here that two good ears yield from each stalk, so now I'm not held back by a doubt the variety would yield enough.
What really stands out is Aunt Mary's is so tall: 8-1/2 feet tall! I have never heard of a sweet corn this tall before. In addition, another thread reports the stalk is STURDY, and this again is different from most sweet corns.
8-1/2' tall!
10 rows SHRUNKEN kernel shape (but Reed says kernels are barely shrunken)
7.9% oil
ear length only .52' long
but two good ears per stalk
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I know last year I nurtured Golden Bantam corn with 8 rows of kernels, but that might not be the only kind of Golden Bantam corn I grew up with. GB has yellow corn kernels. The cob thickness seems normal to me, but I suppose GB cobs could be considered somewhat slender; I was surprised how thick the cob was on Country Gentleman corn last year by comparison. The GB kernels seems normal to me, they get a bit more plump on one end, but were at least twice as long as the very short kernels of Country Gentleman corn. The GB definitely has a different flavor than Country Gentleman corn, unfortunately I haven't figured out how to describe it beyond 'corny' and pretty tasty. 
