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Post by daylilydude on Apr 23, 2017 16:24:51 GMT -5
We are going with the Silver Queen here as it is our favorite... how about you?
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Post by paulf on Apr 23, 2017 18:52:07 GMT -5
I buy whichever is being sold out the back of a pickup. Lots of yellow/white combos around here....Peaches and Cream, I think. Once or twice a year for sweet corn is enough for me. Strange coming from an Iowan. And I will not eat corn out of a can or frozen corn....I do like corn flakes.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 24, 2017 8:05:03 GMT -5
We do not have room for corn in this tiny urban backyard. Or should I say, if I wanted to grow corn here, I wouldn't be able to grow many other foods that I love just as much or if not more? But on the farm, I used to grown Early Golden Bantam. Small ears by modern standards but easy to grow and very tasty. I also liked Country Gentleman (a white), but Hubs not so much. For a bi-colour, we really liked Bodacious. Not sure if it's even available anymore? The sweet corn varieties come and go faster than most other veggies. Oops, I went looking for Bodacious seeds online and it's a yellow sweet, not a bi-colour. I know we loved it, but now I'm wondering what the Bi-colour was that we bought so much of? I may never know... These days, we do the same as Paul. Buy what's around that looks good. Sometimes at the farmer's market, and occasionally from the grocery store.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Apr 24, 2017 8:45:25 GMT -5
I have space issues with corn, too. So I usually don't grow it. I don't think I'll grow any this year, either.
But the best corn that I have ever grown is Mirai. If I were going to grow corn this year, that is what I'd be growing.
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Post by meandtk on Apr 24, 2017 8:51:18 GMT -5
So far I have planted Merit sweet corn, Hickory King and Shoepg dent, and a regional variety of Indian corn. I hope to plant some Texas Gourdseed soon.
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Post by Redfish on May 17, 2017 8:17:40 GMT -5
I keep trying to find something that will do well where I live. So far I haven't had any great success with sweet corn. I'm trying a variety called Little Giant. I am also going to grow some Painted Mountain since that is one that always does well here. I want to try popcorn as well. We'll see.
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Post by september on May 17, 2017 8:46:48 GMT -5
I've settled on Ambrosia, a hybrid bicolor, for the last 5 or 6 years. Used to grow an early, mid and late, but now I just plant Ambrosia in 3 plantings about 10-14 days apart. My first planting went in on May 13th.
I don't have much room for corn, since I grow in raised beds, but 5 of the 4'x12' beds are dedicated to sweet corn each year. I only grow three rows in each bed, and probably should thin them more than I do, but we end up with 50+ pints frozen each year plus all we can eat, so I do ok with my method.
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Post by september on May 17, 2017 8:51:42 GMT -5
bluelacedredhead - we used to grow Bodacious too, and loved it! Is it possible that the bicolor you were thinking of was Ambrosia? They are very similar in their cob type and sweet flavor, except for the color.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on May 17, 2017 10:15:14 GMT -5
september I think that just might be the one, Thanks for reminding me.
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Post by spacecase0 on May 17, 2017 12:19:00 GMT -5
I have Mojave white flour corn planted now going to do a plot a a small pink popcorn in about a month so they don't cross
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Post by meandtk on May 17, 2017 22:31:59 GMT -5
I'm told Merit will no longer be hybridized/available. I have Golden Bantam, so I think I'll try to grow a bit this year, so we can begin adapting to a new-to-us variety.
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Post by spike on May 21, 2017 13:20:20 GMT -5
daylilydude Silver Queen is my husbands favorite. I plant it every year for him!
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Post by stone on Jun 12, 2017 5:17:37 GMT -5
Glass gem.
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Post by daylilydude on Jun 13, 2017 19:57:54 GMT -5
stone, do you grow this for flour or for decoration?
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Post by spike on Jun 14, 2017 18:48:04 GMT -5
stone, oooh more details please!
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Post by stone on Jun 15, 2017 5:25:21 GMT -5
Glass gem is real pretty hanging on the wall. Last winter, when I tossed it out in the yard,the cats ate it. When I hung it on the house, the songbirds ate it. Recently, I got some roosters from the neighbor, they like corn too. I haven't yet figured how to eat the mature corn,but it goes in the soup fine while in the milk stage.
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Post by spike on Jun 15, 2017 10:44:55 GMT -5
oooh that is beautiful!
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Post by tomike on Jun 17, 2017 15:00:19 GMT -5
I need to ask.....
When I was a young boy...... my grandfather was growing Seneca Chief......
The QUESTION Is this variety still available ??
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Post by tomike on Jun 17, 2017 15:53:29 GMT -5
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Post by spike on Jun 20, 2017 9:46:55 GMT -5
stone, ya sold me! I have some on order. Probably to late to start any now but I may try to plant a few anyway. Next year I will grow it.
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Post by paquebot on Jun 22, 2017 23:28:35 GMT -5
Three varieties in my garden; Early Xtra Sweet Yellow, Serendipity Triplesweet Bicolor, and Golden Bantam. Only about 3 dozen of each. Elsewhere on the farm is about ¼-acre with a mix of up to 8 varieties. I had 4 different which were mixed with 3 or 4 leftover from last year. There was one last year that was really super and we had no way of knowing which it was.
Martin
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jun 23, 2017 8:58:04 GMT -5
paquebot, I hope the super one grows again and you are able to keep seed.
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Post by paquebot on Jun 23, 2017 13:21:34 GMT -5
All but Golden Bantam are hybrids and only that one was purchased. The others were all trial packets from several local companies. I think that some last year only had a lot number, not a name. A lot of similar corn is grown around here for canning companies. Most do not have a name.
Martin
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Post by tomato on Jul 4, 2017 1:00:10 GMT -5
Supai Red Parch (grown from 20 year old seed originally from Seeds of Change back before they let it cross and messed up the genetics) Cherokee Squaw Sweet (a few sweet seed I found in Cherokee Squaw a few years ago) Silver King X Country Gentleman F2 (attempting to stabilize se with shoepeg) Bloody Butcher (for fresh seed) Iroquois Flour (first time growing, hope it is good flour corn) Gems disease resistant (2 lines planted together, hoping to see good rust resistance) (Country Gentleman X Silver King) X Cherokee Squaw (hoping to move the shoepeg trait into a dent background to imcrease oil content) Costa Rica Meal (First time to grow, checking if it is a decent white dent meal corn) Maize Morado (Want to see if I can mature it here, also may attempt to cross with popcorn) Inca Giant (aka Cuzco Giant white corn, trying again to get it to mature here) Multicolor Popcorn (to get fresh seed, mine is 10 years old. Also want to attempt crosses with Morado) Dugat's Cornmeal (want to see if it is worth growing for cornmeal, have a full row with pole beans planted beside it)
I helped my son plant and care for 3 100 ft long rows of Silver King sweet corn. It will be mature in about a week.
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Post by september on Jul 5, 2017 9:40:49 GMT -5
A lot of interesting varieties, there! You must have a lot of land to grow on, how do you keep them from cross pollinating? I suppose with a long growing season you can stagger the maturity dates?
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Post by spike on Jul 22, 2017 21:05:28 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jul 26, 2017 16:48:48 GMT -5
Spike, remind me for next year, I'll send you some Mirai seed, the bicolor 74 day one. It is the best tasting corn I have ever eaten. People in the community gardens were just about having a fit when we made 6 ears a door prize for the harvest supper.
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Post by spike on Aug 13, 2017 3:26:51 GMT -5
@imp, Not sure how I missed this but WOO!! That would be wonderful and thank you in advance.
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Post by september on Aug 19, 2017 23:51:40 GMT -5
I am disappointed and mad! Jim just picked our first 4 ears of corn for supper and they are all yellow kernals, not bicolor at all, so obviously there was a mixup of seed at our local farm coop. And I wouldn't even mind if this corn had the same sweetness as Ambrosia, but it doesn't. It's just ok, not anything I would choose to grow. I buy from the bulk bins where you scoop it up yourself, because the small packets are not cost effective. Have done so for at least 20 years with no problem. I'll have to let them know and ask if anyone else has reported a problem with Ambrosia. Not that they would admit to it.
I'm not looking forward to eating this as frozen corn this winter. It will be no better than frozen store corn. My third (and smallest) planting of corn had quite a few old leftover seeds from last year used (I plant closely spaced and then thin a lot) so at least some of that should be Ambrosia.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Aug 21, 2017 15:08:06 GMT -5
Awww, that is so disappointing.
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