Corn - how far apart? - Page 2

barkeater · May 2, 2007

Gimme, you are right. I was specifically referring to Granny's Hopi corn, and should have made that clear.

There are many ways sweet corn can be contaminated by standard corn, etc:

http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/HO-98.pdf

Worth1 · May 2, 2007

I just thought I would point out that in the above discussion what Gimme said about the corn crossing and having yellow and white on the same ear is due to this.

With corn you are eating a seed not a vegetable or fruit as you would a tomato.
With the cross pollinating of the ear you have silks that go to an individual seed.
With this you can have seeds of different colors.
The pollen that lands on that silk and fertilizes that seed will determine the outcome of said seed.
Of coarse there are other genetic traits and dominant genes to deal with too.

Correct me if I’m wrong.

I see a corn patch down in the bottom of my place some day.

Worth

May 2, 2007	#16
barkeater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NE Kingdom, VT - Zone 3b Posts: 1,439	Gimme, you are right. I was specifically referring to Granny's Hopi corn, and should have made that clear. There are many ways sweet corn can be contaminated by standard corn, etc: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/HO-98.pdf

May 2, 2007	#17
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	I just thought I would point out that in the above discussion what Gimme said about the corn crossing and having yellow and white on the same ear is due to this. With corn you are eating a seed not a vegetable or fruit as you would a tomato. With the cross pollinating of the ear you have silks that go to an individual seed. With this you can have seeds of different colors. The pollen that lands on that silk and fertilizes that seed will determine the outcome of said seed. Of coarse there are other genetic traits and dominant genes to deal with too. Correct me if I’m wrong. I see a corn patch down in the bottom of my place some day. Worth