LoreD
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Post by LoreD on Jul 24, 2007 20:20:56 GMT -5
I have always had a problem with corn. The cucumber beetles always come and eat all the silk off my corn. I'm just a little bit ahead of the beetles and I thought maybe I could hand pollinate. I took some of the pollen and mixed it up in the silks. Is this going to work?
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Post by Alan on Aug 2, 2007 7:39:41 GMT -5
Sure it will, as long as the silk is "wet" and you have viable pollen you should get pollination!
Keep us updated!
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Post by johno on Aug 11, 2007 23:29:57 GMT -5
With all the corn you have, you'll need an army of chupacabras to help you hand-pollinate!
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LoreD
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Post by LoreD on Aug 12, 2007 13:42:30 GMT -5
Alan, it's worked pretty well. I have a small amount of corn and I was really tired of not getting anything but empty cobs because the cucumber beetles would eat the silks before they pollinated.
After four years of trying I just started harvesting my first crop. I only had about 50 stalks so it wasn't a problem.
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Post by Alan on Aug 12, 2007 13:51:01 GMT -5
Excelent and glad to hear it! For such a dry year we have really had a nice crop of sweet corn this year, sometimes it seems like all I ever do is cut corn. We probably had 5 or so acres worth!
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