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Post by daylilydude on Sept 18, 2011 18:37:11 GMT -5
Is it edible, or is it just for look pretties for decorations?
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Post by spacecase0 on Sept 19, 2011 2:01:40 GMT -5
each color has a taste the many colored corn is great in my opinion, but I guess it can muttle the flavors
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Post by sorellina on Sept 20, 2011 16:58:49 GMT -5
Ciao Rich-
A lot of the coloured corns are for flour, but some can be used as roasting ears in the milk stage and a few are actual sweet corns. A couple of coloured sweet corns that come to mind are Triple Play, an open-pollinated type and Ruby Queen F1, a hybrid. Blue Jade is a somewhat miniature sweet corn that can be grown in a container.
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Post by joseph on Sept 21, 2011 12:56:33 GMT -5
This is my sugary enhanced multi-colored sweet corn: Taste if very sweet, and very tender. My favorite sweet corn tastes like cherries: And this is just plain old fashioned sweet corn: Chewy and not overly sweet. The colored flour, flint, and pop corns are also edible if prepared properly, but are not generally eaten as corn-on-the-cob.
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Post by sorellina on Sept 21, 2011 18:45:08 GMT -5
Gosh those are pretty, Joseph. We got way too much sun and drought this season for good corn. I was out today harvesting some of your Oaxacan Green Dent. I'll have enough for seed, but only a couple of nice filled out ears for the fair. The cobs were mostly on the small side as well.
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Post by coppice on Sept 23, 2011 20:43:57 GMT -5
Joseph or Alan (Bishop) are probably your best resource on corn.
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Post by daylilydude on Oct 5, 2011 5:37:06 GMT -5
I'm thinking "purple" corn kernels in cornbread, is that a possibility?
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Post by spacecase0 on Oct 5, 2011 16:52:24 GMT -5
I have ground up purple corn to make corn bread, it still had lots of white in the center of the corn kernels, so the corn bread came out looking like a bluish brown it was tasty though
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Post by coppice on Oct 5, 2011 23:29:04 GMT -5
Blue corn(s) can color up masa. Most of the lighter colors don't have much of a finished difference.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2011 22:16:00 GMT -5
I planted some blue six nations indian corn this year. It's much higher in protein with a lower carb count. Good for flour. I didn't get any corn from it, however. The deer broke it all off marching thorugh the garden but there were still some ears growing anyway, until the racoons got to them. They tore all the ears off and chewed them up. Not one single ear of corn matured. I will be trying again next year.
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Post by materman on May 21, 2013 17:46:49 GMT -5
One corn I did not see mentioned is Rainbow Inca. it has a white ear while in the milk stage, but starts turning different colors as it goes over the hill. It is actually a sweet corn and to me the finest OP sweet corn there is. Even when it starts into the doe stage, it is still tasty. Let it dry and you have some fine tasting corn meal. It is actually one of the parents of the old standby Silver Queen. Give it the nutrients, and cultivation, it can grow some fine looking ears. Got some planted as I type so as to replenish my seed supply. Well worth the try if serious about growing OP produce.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2013 18:52:55 GMT -5
I was very glad to see Joseph visits here on occasion, even if it's been a while. I was about to suggest his Paradise sweet corn if he hadn't already. It's better than anything on the market at the moment. At milk stage (in my garden) it's white/yellow with some blue, and sweeter than any OP available at the moment. The blue increases as it dries, and he's working on increasing the palette. He sent me a sample in late 2011. I saved nearly a gallon of seed from every plant that made a full sized ear in my climate, and now I won't grow any other sweet corn. Check it out here: garden.lofthouse.com/sweet-corn-breeding.phtmlMB
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Post by materman on May 21, 2013 18:59:29 GMT -5
I was very glad to see Joseph visits here on occasion, even if it's been a while. I was about to suggest his Paradise sweet corn if he hadn't already. It's better than anything on the market at the moment. At milk stage (in my garden) it's white/yellow with some blue, and sweeter than any OP available at the moment. The blue increases as it dries, and he's working on increasing the palette. He sent me a sample in late 2011. I saved nearly a gallon of seed from every plant that made a full sized ear in my climate, and now I won't grow any other sweet corn. Check it out here: garden.lofthouse.com/sweet-corn-breeding.phtmlMB Never herd of that one before. Looks appetizing. Do the dried seeds have a good shriveled look to them? Might have to try it. Thanks for mentioning it. Too bad a person can't get a sample from him, for it looks like he is out.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2013 22:03:44 GMT -5
I've got some left over. They're plenty shriveled; definitely sweet corn. Nevermind the ones we ate last year. Very sweet, very tender. Shoot me a PM with your address and I'll send you a sample. Just make sure you give all credit to Joseph if you post about it. Also, the seed I saved last year is pretty much all yellow, white, and blue, while seed directly from Joseph will have reds, greens, oranges, greys, and purples as well. Contact him in autumn or early winter for a sample if you're looking for the wider color palette. And join us at alanbishop.proboards.com/ and check out his threads there if you're interested in corn breeding and how color develops in the different layers of a kernel. MB
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Post by materman on May 22, 2013 9:16:07 GMT -5
Drahkk, I have read a few posts from over there, but not into corn breeding. Have looked at it and what it consists of, but maters keep me busy. But i am always in the market to try something new and especially when it comes to OP sweet corn. Many out there but their taste for the most are just glorified field corn. I have grew the Rainbow Inca for about 14 years now and was the best I had found to date and like Joseph mentioned, I have been doing over the years on my corn and that is sorting out only the most shriveled seeds for planting and saving. I guess I could try some and do some comparing one ear size and yes taste.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2013 8:55:47 GMT -5
My Paradise: Kinda hard to tell from the weeds, but there are three rows in that first spot, all the way at the outside of the corn patch to give me some to save from with minimal crossing with the G90 and Merit (both su only). The second is a couple of extra rows we planted purely for eating, though they MAY be far enough behind the hybrids on both sides that it wouldn't matter. These are 21 days in the ground. I must say I feel somewhat vindicated seeing them up and going, if only because this is the first time I've intentionally saved corn for seed. But mostly I'm just feeling hungry for fresh corn! MB
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