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Post by badbrad on Aug 10, 2022 8:48:13 GMT -6
My wife told me this spring, "Can you plant me sweet corn instead of all the corn being for the damn deer?" I said to her usually its a bad idea to plant them together and we really don't have room to put it anywhere else. The concern is cross pollination and then you sweet corn, well, won't be so sweet.
I thought to myself. What if I plant really short day sweet corn and plant it a little earlier than the field corn so they are not in the reproductive stage at the same time? With a little luck that should work right?
So I gave it a shot. Bought some conventional sweet corn seed (not RR ready) and did a little research and found a herbicide called Laudis that works with sweet corn and has some residual coverage which I wanted. I threw the seed in the corn planter and ran two rows down the length of my field.
Yesterday we picked about half of it boy oh boy is it good. My wife and I worked on freezing a bunch both on the cob raw and cooked. Not sure what we are going to do with all of it. LOL
She is happy. HWHL!
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Post by badbrad on Aug 10, 2022 8:50:31 GMT -6
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Post by daydreamer on Aug 10, 2022 9:08:30 GMT -6
Wait, when did your boys turn into girls???
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Post by badbrad on Aug 10, 2022 9:10:34 GMT -6
Wait, when did your boys turn into girls??? LOL. That is her girls. I have two boys and she has two girls.
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Post by Freeborn on Aug 10, 2022 15:47:29 GMT -6
Corn looks tasty, looks like you have a ton of it.
4 teenage kids, probably a good idea to grow your own food.
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Post by biglakebass on Aug 10, 2022 16:19:47 GMT -6
Awesome. How spendy was the spray???
We struggle bad with sweet corn.
Is it really tru that field corn and sweet corn cross pollinate and affect each other though?
I see sweet corn adjacent to field corn often.
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Post by badbrad on Aug 10, 2022 20:02:14 GMT -6
Awesome. How spendy was the spray??? We struggle bad with sweet corn. Is it really tru that field corn and sweet corn cross pollinate and affect each other though? I see sweet corn adjacent to field corn often. The spray is spendy for the jug. But not spendy to use. A jug is 400 bucks !!!!! But you only need a ridiculous low amount. I can’t remember but it’s like 2-3 oz per acre of sweet corn. Acre ! That’s a lot of sweet corn. Commercial sweet corn growers use the same jug. It goes a long long ways. So that jug will literally last you the rest of your life and pass it on to your kids. I’m using in my field corn too just because I have it. Maybe you can split it up between neighbors or family members. When I have the label in front of me I can tell you more.
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Post by badbrad on Aug 10, 2022 20:04:35 GMT -6
Awesome. How spendy was the spray??? We struggle bad with sweet corn. Is it really tru that field corn and sweet corn cross pollinate and affect each other though? I see sweet corn adjacent to field corn often. It is true. It does and can happen. They will cross pollinate if in the fertilization stage at the same time.
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Post by biglakebass on Aug 10, 2022 20:57:37 GMT -6
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Post by badbrad on Aug 11, 2022 6:55:32 GMT -6
Just did the math. At 3 oz/acre which is the max rate for sweet corn per season you can plant 42.6 acres of sweet corn with that one jug. You probably don't plant much per season so that is a lifetime supply for both you and your kids.
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