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Post by jerryrva on Aug 13, 2019 18:33:59 GMT -5
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Post by RpR on Aug 13, 2019 21:01:35 GMT -5
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Post by jerryrva on Aug 25, 2019 7:02:15 GMT -5
Crosses were made from private lines of inbred developed in Africa and then crossed to dents adapted to USA corn belt.
An inquiry to the company about seed says only contracted growers can obtain seed. It would have made a great fall decoration for farmers markets sales.
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Post by RpR on Aug 25, 2019 17:36:04 GMT -5
Check Sandhill Preservation for their line of corn developed by MR. Stubbes; they were developed to decorate the Mitchell Corn Palace.
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Post by DarJones on Aug 30, 2019 14:17:58 GMT -5
Ars-Grin has Nalo Orange which appears to have similar origins. If you do some due diligence, you can find a few other orange varieties in cimmyt.
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Post by jerryrva on Sept 10, 2019 12:17:51 GMT -5
I was able to find what I need for my project.
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Post by DarJones on Sept 10, 2019 18:08:19 GMT -5
Don't just post something ambiguous, tell, tell. What did you find jerryrva?
More seriously, I've been revisiting the high oil corn developed at University of Minnesota from the Korean High Oil maize lines. If you do a google search, there is a dearth of articles about breeding work done with the high oil corn that was brought back from North Korea. 10 years ago, there were numerous articles. Some search terms that work are "Bernardo High Oil Corn" and "Korean High Oil Corn". A stable breeding line AHO-1 was developed and supposedly released in 2013. I'm trying to find out if it is available to use in a breeding experiment. I would love to cross a high carotene corn with a high protein line and then cross that with a high oil line. The combination of high oil with high protein and high carotene should make an exceptional feed corn for chickens.
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Post by massachusettsgrower on Sept 13, 2019 20:45:15 GMT -5
IT'S A brilliant concept, DarJones. I grew out finally this year a hybrid I performed in 2014 between (apparently almost the same characteristics) flour corn. Neither parent had height, but the growout went 10'. What a surprise. All it tells me about maize genetics is they aren't going to be predictable. Well not predictable to me anyway.
If I'm getting such a surprise result from just a simple single cross from apparently like genetics, wide x wide, then crossed again wide, while will almost surely lead to something amazing, may not be a predictable result.
Plus, I'd be thinking about just one of those crosses, to start with, then grow it out and see what you get. Though of course you can proceed immediately to crossing further with another line immediately.
I don't know if there are any maize experts handy.....
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Post by jerryrva on Sept 17, 2019 5:48:31 GMT -5
Speaking of high oil content corn, Jimmy Red dent has an usually large germ and high oil. It's the hot thing for whiskey and for grits in the Charleston, SC area. An old bootlegger's heirloom that originated in Georgia. Being grown on commercial acres now to meet the demand. Must have good disease resistant considering how healthy the plants look in photos of weedy organic fields. Lots of articles on the rediscovery of this one with a Google search.
I will be planting it in 2020 as my corn for grits. As I side note I saw an ear of it grown in Virginia without any fertilizer and it still was decent sized.
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Post by jerryrva on Sept 17, 2019 7:38:18 GMT -5
Speaking of high oil content corn, Jimmy Red dent has an usually large germ and high oil. It's the hot thing for whiskey and for grits in the Charleston, SC area. An old bootlegger's heirloom that originated in Georgia. Being grown on commercial acres now to meet the demand. Must have good disease resistant considering how healthy the plants look in photos of weedy organic fields. Lots of articles on the rediscovery of this one with a Google search.
I will be planting it in 2020 as my corn for grits. As I side note I saw an ear of it grown in Virginia without any fertilizer and it still was decent sized.
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