Corn

[nancypancy1]

I planted Buhl Sweet corn. I have several questions. One, I didn’t think it was that sweet. Could I have picked it too early, too late? If I had picked it sooner, would more grow on the stalk?
Secondly, a weird question when we ate the corn, we saw no corn pieces in the stool. Does that mean because it is Heirloom non GMO that our bodies were able to digest it? Anyone else have that happen?

[RpR]

Buhl is an old school sweet corn,not sugar gunk like so many are now.

Picking does not affect how many cobs, soil structure can affect that.

[nkline]

It’s pretty easy to pick sweet corn at the wrong time if you don’t have much experience with it. It should start light yellow and turn medium yellow after cooking, never go by the “days” on sweet corn. You probably digested it likely because of a thinner pericarp or what else you ate with it, the genes they splice in to make gmo’s aren’t going to affect you, they just give the plants abilities to product novel proteins the most common in sweet corn gives herbicide resistance through a simple biological pathway. The heirloom part doesn’t matter at all either, really just implies that the variety was developed in the past, but they may be why it has thinner pericarp which is often selected against by some breeders because it’s easier to bruise corn with thinner pericarp.