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Post by rowan on Mar 23, 2016 1:47:47 GMT -5
While I was picking my corn today (Anasazi sweet) I came across this very fat cob. It reveled itself to be a five ear cob - a record for me. I have had a couple of twins and one joined three ear but never one this complicated in a single husk.
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Post by gilbert on Mar 23, 2016 9:21:51 GMT -5
Are you going to save it?
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Post by rowan on Mar 23, 2016 13:44:41 GMT -5
Not sure yet
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Post by raymondo on Mar 23, 2016 14:46:43 GMT -5
Is that at sweet corn eating stage or is it on the way to drying down? I ask because the colours are so visible.
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Post by rowan on Mar 23, 2016 20:24:49 GMT -5
It is drying down Ray, not quite wrinkled yet but I am picking them to dry down in my shearing shed. The great thing about this variety is that you eat it when the colours are fully out as if you pick it younger it is sweet but bland. When it is coloured it is still sweet and juicy but also coloured
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Post by steev on Mar 23, 2016 22:59:48 GMT -5
Save the seeds; dry the cob as a trophy.
Sounds good that it's sweet even though fully colored; Joseph's Cherry Sweet is starchy by the time it's fully colored, not that that's a bad thing (very nice in a salad, at that stage; so pretty). I'm not so stuck on "sweet" in corn, having eaten a lot of "elotes" (roasted young field corn-on-the-cob, a squeeze of limon, sprinkle of salt, dusting of ground chili; not so sweet, but so "corny") in Latin-America, where they just don't grow "sweet" corn, since it's not good for storage to convert eventually to posole or masa.
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Post by richardw on Mar 24, 2016 0:18:56 GMT -5
What a find Rowan
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Post by raymondo on Mar 24, 2016 6:29:12 GMT -5
It is drying down Ray, not quite wrinkled yet but I am picking them to dry down in my shearing shed. The great thing about this variety is that you eat it when the colours are fully out as if you pick it younger it is sweet but bland. When it is coloured it is still sweet and juicy but also coloured Good to know. Thanks Rowan.
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Post by DarJones on Mar 26, 2016 0:06:46 GMT -5
One thing I've learned the hard way is that commercial characteristics in corn have been selected over hundreds of years. Poly-cob is one trait that has no commercial redeeming value. I have one cob saved just because it looks so interesting. There are about 8 individual cobs tied together at the base. I just can't figure out a way to use the trait to justify growing and selecting for it.
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Post by rowan on Mar 26, 2016 1:36:18 GMT -5
Don't worry, I won't be planting the seeds, I can't see any value in a patch of corn with this trait, though I think it was probably environmentally caused rather than genetic.
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Post by reed on Mar 26, 2016 6:07:44 GMT -5
It certainly is a curious looking thing, I would save it just to show people but definitely wouldn't plant any of it. It probably wouldn't even happen here. In our climate something like that would most likely be a moldy mess before it ever matured to that stage.
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Post by indianamike on Mar 28, 2016 14:32:46 GMT -5
I have genetics like that in my popcorn lines because of using some Bear Paw in it. I have seen up to 3 fused on a consistent basis, but 5-8 is definitely intriguing!
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Post by steev on Mar 28, 2016 17:50:03 GMT -5
I had a cat with 7 toes on each foot, but he only had two ears.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 28, 2016 19:39:24 GMT -5
I had a cat with 7 toes on each foot, but he only had two ears. ahaha... i think that deserves a gold star...
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Post by steev on Mar 28, 2016 22:01:24 GMT -5
Actually, I subsequently found that some woman had got her 28-toe cat into the Guinness Book of World Records; I've never heard of any cat with more; he was the very soul of love and died unexpectedly a couple months after I named my email for him: Squid; Squiddly; Squidders; Squiddiboo!
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