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Post by Tucson Grower on May 25, 2023 15:14:56 GMT -6
Here are a few pics of my corn patch. All tightly packed together --> Edit: I added a 3rd pic, below -->
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jun 5, 2023 17:18:10 GMT -6
Tucson,
That corn patch reminds me of the first patch of corn I had here. I planted my rows on 18" inch centers, so I wouldn't have so many weeds to hoe. With 18" inch centers on my rows, the leaves overlapped between the rows. One day I was out there hoeing centers and a water moccasin struck my hoe handle so hard that it nearly made me drop it. He was a big one!
I ended up chopping quite a few stalks of corn chasing that snake through the rows. After that, I never planted my rows close enough together that I couldn't see the bare ground between them.
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Post by Tucson Grower on Jun 5, 2023 17:57:00 GMT -6
I planted these, thus: 9, 1 foot squares, 18 inches apart in a 3 x 3 pattern (those are all different varieties of sweet corn), then one 4 foot row off the Northern most back corner, 18 inches from the nearest square, running North and South (those are jewel corn), then those tallest ones, on the left in the last picture are planted 18 inches over from the 3 x 3 planting, and at a 90 degree angle from the N-S row, running East to West, are a variety called Mexican Black. There is a single plant of a variety called, Blue Jade planted even farther North than the Mexican Black.
Interesting to me is that I planted the 3 varieties of sweet corn, each variety acrost 3 of the 9 planting holes. The front row (in the pics) was planted first, the 2nd a few days later, and the 3rd another few days later. I can only assume I chose (by chance) the shortest variety first, and so forth - but I had no idea how tall each variety, of sweet corn, was expected to grow.
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Post by Tucson Grower on Jun 6, 2023 7:24:00 GMT -6
As I was watering this morning, I noticed where the wind had blown off one corn stalk. When it happened, I thought, that's it for that plant. Later 2 stalks had begun to grow from the stump - then today I discovered that each stalk had morphed into an ear. This plant is all female, not a tassel in sight. Very curious.
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Post by Tucson Grower on Jun 11, 2023 17:48:21 GMT -6
Apparently the wind is blowing primarily from the South (actually Southwest). This has put at risk, my entire row of 'Mexican Black' corn (which is running East-West). It seems that solitary rows of corn do not do well when they are struck broad-side by prevailing wind - especially extra tall ones.
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