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Sweet corn is about done for the year.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 5:38 pm
Posted on 7/13/14 at 5:38 pm
We put our corn under irrigation this year and it turned out great. Wish we would have staggered the planting though because it is about done for the year. Everyone have a good crop this year? Wife is making zesty corn relish tonight.
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Posted on 7/13/14 at 5:49 pm to highcotton2
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zesty corn relish
That sounds damn good and I didn't plant corn this year.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 5:58 pm to eyepooted
I did not plant corn but my buddy's is doing well enough to benefit me.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 6:00 pm to highcotton2
I was actually busy working this year and totally missed the season...the pic that you posted sure makes me want a couple of ears buttered up good and grilled... 
Posted on 7/13/14 at 8:14 pm to highcotton2
We say we are going to stagger ours every year, but never do. What hybrid is that?
Posted on 7/13/14 at 8:31 pm to BigHogGlade
It was Seminis® Performance series. Roundup Ready and Bt I think it was called triple sweet.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 8:43 pm to highcotton2
My uncle grew some Obsession this year... similar coloring. Really good stuff.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 8:45 pm to highcotton2
Ours still going. Shouldn't be much longer though.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 9:00 pm to highcotton2
We had some of that as well as obsession. I couldn't tell the difference. The old guard here has always been G90 to the core, but bt/rr is very easy to manage, and better tasting too.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 9:04 pm to BigHogGlade
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bt/rr is very easy to manage
man, that is an understatement...
Posted on 7/13/14 at 9:07 pm to highcotton2
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It was Seminis® Performance series. Roundup Ready and Bt
What is Bt?
Posted on 7/13/14 at 9:19 pm to weadjust
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What is Bt?
plants contain a natural, biological insecticide so you don't have to spray nearly as often with pesticides...stands for something like "bacillius thurigenisis"....
works wonderfully well, particularly when combined with roundup ready characteristics...basically means that you have to spray little or no toxic chemicals on the crop...
Posted on 7/13/14 at 9:25 pm to highcotton2
Easiest way to make friends is to plant some sweet corn.
We only planted cotton and soybeans this year, so we didn't worry about a sweet corn patch.
We only planted cotton and soybeans this year, so we didn't worry about a sweet corn patch.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 9:47 pm to prostyleoffensetime
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Easiest way to make friends is to plant some sweet corn.
And a sunflower patch for dove hunting.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 9:55 pm to Spankum
Thanks. My dad who is 77 is in the G90 old guard camp. So if he planted that hybrid it would yield similar tasting corn to G90 and he can spray round instead of using the hoe? That might change his mind for that reason alone.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 10:07 pm to weadjust
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he can spray round instead of using the hoe? That might change his mind for that reason alone.
It cost $375 for five pounds. That might change his mind back.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 10:11 pm to weadjust
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Thanks. My dad who is 77 is in the G90 old guard camp. So if he planted that hybrid it would yield similar tasting corn to G90 and he can spray round instead of using the hoe? That might change his mind for that reason alone.
yep...roundup to kill weeds and grass...and no bug problems at all...your dad's generation of farmers would have never imagined such a thing possible...
Posted on 7/13/14 at 10:18 pm to highcotton2
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It cost $375 for five pounds. That might change his mind back.
Damn that's high. He has a small garden. So he could buy a pound of seed for $75 or he could buy it local grown and picked. 300 ears @.25 ea for the same $75. I know which option I would choose.
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Can you grow it one year and save some ears and replant the following year? Hypothetically of coarse. A local farmer/seed producer here lost a 8.7 million dollar lawsuit when Monsanto sued him for doing the same thing with cotton. Monsanto vs Scruggs.
This post was edited on 7/13/14 at 10:49 pm
Posted on 7/13/14 at 10:52 pm to weadjust
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Can you grow it one year and save some ears and replant the following year?
No, it is a hybrid so that means the offspring will not be like the parent plant. Cotton and soybeans are not hybrids.
Posted on 7/13/14 at 10:54 pm to highcotton2
Mine is done. Ended up with 3,000 or so ears of Merritt in my little patch.
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