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Post by Dewdrop on Dec 26, 2021 18:44:26 GMT -5
I know this is an old thread, but this year my folks and I are tentatively going to nurture, harvest, and 'test-taste'  Golden Bantam and Country Gentleman sweet corn.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 11, 2022 10:17:43 GMT -5
This year I'm doing a grow out of Double Red sweet with old purple kernels from Astronomy Domine sweet. I might throw in some detasseled country gentlemen to breed a new shoe peg sweetcorn. Also might detassel some Japanese waxy corn.
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Post by RpR on Jun 11, 2022 17:21:33 GMT -5
Planted: Sweet Corn: Double Red Martian Jewels Breeder's Choice Kandy Korn Country Gentlemen Precious Gem
Field Corn: Aunt Mary's Dent Casto Family Heirloom H&M Yellow Dent Henry W. Wood Seed Co.
I almost TKOd a turkey with a shovel so I am not have them destroy my planting this year. So far , with the wet weather we have had, although we went from winter 20 some degrees F, to summer 80 some degrees F in days, both of my gardens are thriving.
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Post by blueadzuki on Jun 11, 2022 23:18:38 GMT -5
I GUESS I'm going to try some corn this year, assuming I can get the patch turned over (with all the tree roots, it gets harder and harder every year).
WHAT corn, I have yet to decide. The way I see it, I have two options (and, unlike many on this site, I don't have the space to do both at the same time and be able to keep them discrete and not crossing.
The first option would be to continue trying with my miniature non-popcorn experiments, which, this year, would mean doing the red dent one (the one I think is the result of a cross between Strawberry Popcorn and some sort of field corn). Those seed samples aren't getting any younger. Of course, every year I DO try, the animals end up eating every single seed or seedling long before they can produce anything.
The second option is to try the miniature Glass Gem I have saved up. This has a few disadvantages, the main one being that doing so wouldn't advance the above corn project any. On the other hand, there is the advantage that I have SO MUCH seed of that one stored up that, if I use it all and overplant like crazy, there may actually be so much seed the animals CAN'T eat it all before some of it makes it to a stage where they stop being interested in it.
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Post by RpR on Jun 12, 2022 16:11:05 GMT -5
This year I'm doing a grow out of Double Red sweet with old purple kernels from Astronomy Domine sweet. I might throw in some detasseled country gentlemen to breed a new shoe peg sweetcorn. Also might detassel some Japanese waxy corn. There was a few years back, a hybrid Country Gentlemen, called COGENT. I bought it and it looked to be pretty much the same as the non-hybrid, but, when I planted both types side by side, the ears that fall on some were yellow. The place that sold does not any more.
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