Corn

[Brian_K]

Anyone grow it? I have Kandy Korn, Silver Queen, and a variegated cultivar all at the 2nd or 3rd leaf stage.

[Iowaboo]

I would like to grow a giant corn. I always grow some boring hybrid sweet corn, so I started growing colorful ones in the last couple of years; Not sure how true to seed they will be after years of cross fertilization in the corn belt.

Bloody butcher
Hopi Blue
Magenta Parch
Supai Red Parch
Triple Play Sweet
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Triple play


magenta parch


2 hopi blue, one plant different than other.

I plant corn mid to late april.

[BruceLofland]

I have seen giant corn growing in someone's front yard. It was a little higher than his gutter, which is probably 8 feet tall. I was amazed when I saw it and wondered how they got it to get so big.

[Iowaboo]

Bloody butcher gets 8-12 feet tall. I was looking at getting one that can reach 15ft tall.


Here is a pic of my bloody butcher, tallest ones are 10+ feet tall.

[Iowaboo]

Hopi Blue- interesting plant I had last year.
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[mantis]

My son's first cob of corn. Knocked off during weeding....




Kinda odd looking

[svendrix]

Mantis, that is a funky cob!

I bought some Ruby Red Corn kernels to plant (supposedly very sweet, but with red kernels), but I didn't plant any yet. Probably too late this year. The big part of the blunder was not knowing that you need to have quite a few of them, close together in order to pollinate. Oh well, maybe another year if I can find a location suitable for that much!

---Sven