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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2022 3:05:17 GMT -6
Curious anomaly with those kernels.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jan 14, 2022 20:34:50 GMT -6
That corn is so beautiful! Do you ever decorate with it before you shell it?
Thanks for the explanation about flint and dent corn and for posting the thread with the article. We are planning to try some flint corn this year with the hopes of making cornmeal. We don’t have space for a large crop, but we often grow a little plot of corn. This will be the first year that it won’t be a sweet corn, though.
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Post by macmex on Jan 15, 2022 12:56:22 GMT -6
We do decorate with it, sometimes. If you can grow 250 plants, then you can maintain seed long term. I usually amplify my seed's genetic diversity by planting from more than one year's seed, mixing it before planting. I've heard of people maintaining a corn with as few as 30 plants, by being sure to save and use seed from every single plant, but I like the 250 plant rule. 250 plants takes about 10X20' more or less. That's planted in rows, about 4' apart.
There are many good flint corns from which to choose.
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Post by FrostyTurnip on May 7, 2023 18:21:03 GMT -6
Mesquakie Indian Corn germinated and in the ground. This is second generation. Looking forward to the results.
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Post by FrostyTurnip on May 28, 2023 14:44:28 GMT -6
I planted these in the old redneck chicken run spot where the chickens had access to the compost build comprised of wood chips from their coop. I figured the nitrogen load was too much for anything else. The Mesquake seems quite happy to oblige!
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Post by FrostyTurnip on Aug 14, 2023 15:43:23 GMT -6
My Mesquakie Indian Corn did very well as we had adequate rain this year and I had planted them over the old chicken run/compost pile. Very tall and healthy all season long. I made the mistake of letting them dry on the stalks. The chickens found them. Little Miss said she saw the hens ambush the corn ears by jumping together and pulling them off. When I went to look, there there all the cobs on the ground, nicely shucked and picked clean.
Before they found it, I had pulled off a few ears and they’ll be good for seed next year. I find it curious that the red kernels are far more sturdy than the yellow. Perhaps the worms do not like their flavor as much.
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Post by macmex on Aug 14, 2023 22:43:54 GMT -6
As a general rule the red kernels are indeed harder than the yellow. With this corn, the red kernels are, more often than not, flint and the yellow are more likely to be dent, which is softer. The yellow kernels are also much more loosely attached to the cob.
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