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Post by oh2fly on Aug 14, 2006 13:41:45 GMT -6
I planted two kinds of corn this year for the first time. Indian corn in about a 3' by 6' rectangle, 4 feet away I planted Ambrosia (white and yellow) yummy corn. Last night I picked 2 ears of Ambrosia and handed them to my wife to get ready for the grille. She came back out and said Uh-OH. Anybody guess what she was talking about before I tell you? No peeking, think about it...............
The Indian corn pollinated the Ambrosia and there were some red and brown kernels on the Ambrosia. You didn't even have to watch while you ate to know which ones you just bit into. DOHHH!!! ::)My first ear last week was from farthest away without any Indian kernels and these were closer. Lesson for next year. Separate the children a little more. How far is enough? I see I have 1 Karma. I am assuming that's a good thing, what's up with that?
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Post by crazy1 on Aug 14, 2006 13:45:11 GMT -6
I'd have to say 20 feet or so. The wind can carry pollen quite a distance.
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Post by lilsparrow on Aug 14, 2006 14:41:45 GMT -6
That's phunny, I was just thinking about the same thing myself regarding my tomato plants. I have a couple of hybrid Beefsteaks and one Heirloom "Queen" something or other. It should be a pink tomato. Anyway, I have them in pots and now that they are big, they are literally touching each other. I don't have any ripe yet, but I am wondering what I am going to get when they are ripe.  I guess I will find out soon! |
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Aug 14, 2006 18:59:43 GMT -6
Dap tomatoes have "perfect" flowers, meaning each flower has both female and male components.
The female component (pistil); and the the male counterpart (stamen)are receptive and ready to GO!
pollination takes place insome cases, before the flower has completely opened.
This makes cross pollination very uncommon, but not impossible.
The steele blue tomato I finally got to cross, took me 5 years and unusual techiques!
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Post by trudy on Aug 14, 2006 19:15:48 GMT -6
oh2fly, I've read that about the corn to and you can plant them somewhat close, but you need to do some math and figure out with the maturity dates and about when the varieties will tassle as to how far (days or weeks) away to plant so they aren't tassling at the same time. Hope that makes some sense. trudy
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Post by crazy1 on Aug 14, 2006 19:21:11 GMT -6
Way to go T   |
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Post by lilsparrow on Aug 16, 2006 9:34:27 GMT -6
Cool. Thanks Pharmer Phil!  |
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Post by mickee311 on Aug 19, 2006 8:16:50 GMT -6
I figured I would post this here, because I have a question about corn. I am growing baby corn and I was out watering the garden and I looked at the leaves. There is some kind of goopy looking brown crap on them towards where it opens up for the leaves to spread. I don't know what it is, but it's on several of them. It's not coming out of the plants, I don't know what it is. Help?
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