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Post by Mumsey on Jun 21, 2022 12:24:46 GMT -5
gardendmpls, Just like regular sweet corn. emmsmommy, I think they pretty much ripened at the same time. I wasn't impressed so never did it again. Taste was OK, but there is better out there. Over 15 years ago that I did it.
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Post by gianna on Jun 25, 2022 20:15:54 GMT -5
I'm guessing the baby corn varieties don't produce a very good ear when full-grown or the stalks simply won't hold up to the weight of the maturing ears. Maybe there's too much of a lag between ripeness of the ears to make it commercially viable. Now I'm curious. gianna have you tried growing those baby corn stalks to maturity? My guess is that baby corn varieties were first developed as types that produced a greater abundance of food (calories) and that the baby corn aspect came secondarily as some of the smaller ears developed lower on the developed stalks and were just eaten cuz they were, well, edible. I've found the variety of baby corn I'm growing to have very sturdy stalks. In fact, one succession was planted too soon to the last one, and I just let it all go, unharvested, as a seed source. It's basically a variety of wht popcorn,and is sold as such in some places. The ears that have formed are large and full - not as large as field corn however. I think I'll have so much, I'll give some popcorn as a gift. What I have found is that if you grow them to pick as baby corn, and keep picking them as super young ears, later ears with silks will continue to form lower on the plant. This does not seem to happen if you allow the top ears to be pollinated and develop. In fact, the more you pick, the more little ears are produced, right on down to where the stalk meets the ground! And sometimes baby ears grew at the nodes of previously harvested ears. And from plants that were not babied and at the end, had been shredded by the wind, and frankly didnt get watered.
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