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Post by daylilydude on Jul 24, 2013 18:43:07 GMT -5
I am growing both peaches and cream and kandy korn and I have noticed that on some it looks like some suckers are coming up with the main stalk is this normal or should I remove these?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2013 19:56:20 GMT -5
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Post by daylilydude on Jul 28, 2013 17:59:02 GMT -5
I was hoping the tillers would help them stay upright, nut everytime I water I have to go out there the next day and stand a few back up... what and why does this happen?
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Post by materman on Jul 28, 2013 18:24:12 GMT -5
I was hoping the tillers would help them stay upright, nut everytime I water I have to go out there the next day and stand a few back up... what and why does this happen? Sounds like a variety that doesn't have good lodge resistance. Some have roots that go out from the base of the stem and up the stem that root down and support the plant. I brought some back from Honduras one time that had roots coming out of the stem 5ft. up. But of course it grew to 16ft. so it needed them.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 29, 2013 11:16:22 GMT -5
Speaking of corn and lodging...is it good or helpful to hill up the dirt a few inches of dirt after the corn gets a foot tall or so? Will that encourage the corn to root along the stem, or will it rot?
(Corn newbie here.)
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Post by materman on Jul 29, 2013 11:35:51 GMT -5
LinFL, I can't speak for everyone, but back in the olden days, corn was cultivated which in part threw more dirt into the row. In some of the dryer parts of the country they would even plant corn in furrows and then pull the dirt to them as it grew. So to answer your question, pulling dirt to your corn will not encourage rotting as far as I can see. I actually pulled a lot of dirt to mine so as that the water would shed away and not cause problems. You said a few inches, I hilled mine almost a foot.
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Post by kctomato on Jul 29, 2013 12:02:17 GMT -5
I agree about the hilling. Lodging can also be from not enough light or even water/fert issues. I don't specifically know but I suspect tillers would be somewhat a negative thing - at least i know they are selected against. They likely sap energy from going to the rest of the plant where one is concerned about producing. That growth is in a more shaded area so it's photosynthetic potential is reduced. The amount of energy it is respiring (using energy up) could likely be more than it is making. To make up the plant has to take it from elsewhere. As far as extra tassels I am not sure that matters either as the pollen mostly falls or blows to the side (and falls) on silks. Down that low I doubt there is much wind to move pollen "up" to silks. Of course DLD is in Mississippi so the lodging might be failed crop circle attempts by aliens who got bored mutating Blane's tomatoes.
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Post by daylilydude on Aug 1, 2013 4:27:09 GMT -5
ROFLMAO... ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2017 12:21:25 GMT -5
Some varieties lodge more easily than others, just as some make more tillers. I grow Mirai corn as I adore the taste and trouble free growth here, plus it tends to make tillers that set ears for me.
I grow in either 8 ft x 8ft blocks or 4 x8 in the community garden If I am worrying about lodging, I do hill them and have also used some 3 ft stakes or so ( what ever I have handy) and set stakes every other row or 3rd row, and then run some string from one stake to the other- sort of lending some lower support.
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Post by paquebot on Jul 21, 2017 22:54:15 GMT -5
Not removing any tillers here. Two of 3 varieties in my garden have tillers. One began producing them so early that some may think that 2 or 3 seeds were planted side-by-side. Most plants produced 2 and we're going to end up with up to 3 ears from a single kernel planted.
Martin
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