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Re: OT; will corn cross pollinate?
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Posted by Dell (WA) on March 29, 2005 at 15:34:40 from (172.198.212.123):
In Reply to: OT; will corn cross pollinate? posted by flyingvranch on March 29, 2005 at 14:30:12:
Flying V..........yep, sweetcorn and field corn will cross-pollinate ...BUT... it don't effect the taste of eather the sweetcorn or yield of fieldcorn ...UNTIL... you try to saving some of the cornseeds for NEXT YEAR. Then you don't know whatcha gotts. Bleath!!! (field corn tastes terrible) As a general rule, it don't profit to grow fieldcorn in a garden plot for any reason. Remember, field corn yield is bushels/acre. 85x75 is 6375 sq/ft and an acre is 43560 sq/ft, so yer planting just a mere 0.146 acre. Good fieldcorn yield is 200 bu/ac but is usually closer to 150 bu/ac, so iff'n yer good garden was planted 50/50 field corn, ya'd only have the potential of about 10 bu of field corn. What's 50# sack of corn at the feed store sell for? Infact, I doubt yer local gardenstore will even have fieldcorn seed in the display racks and most field corn is hybrid ennyways (sterile). Grow several varitys of sweetcorn and stagger time plant them. Might even consider growing Indiancorn instead of fieldcorn. Infact you can actually feed sweetcorn instead of fieldcorn, eather dried and shelled (not much yield) or fresh and husked for a treat.........Dell
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