Re: Why detassel corn?? Please tell me

Posted by amos on July 31, 2005 at 16:25:46 from (64.81.231.196):

In Reply to: Why detassel corn?? Please tell me posted by newtoit on July 31, 2005 at 15:22:03:

the pollon from the tassel falls on to the silk of the ear and that is how the kernell is formed, in a normal field of corn the pollon just blows around and pollenates all the silk but in a field that is grown for seed corn they want to be albe to control what pollen goes to what silk so they detassel the ones that they dont want to pollenate the others, they try to develop certain qualites in the seed corn ,those filds are usually isolated from normal corn fields. I hope this helps more then it confuses

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