Who grows sweet corn?

[RangerClay]

I need a new sweet corn seed. The last couple years I have used Burpee Early and Often and have had poor results.    What seed are you guys and gals using?  Could you please recommend a good early 60-70 day seed.

[G-Man]

I have a couple at home i'll repost their names when i get there.. but silver queen believe its 72 day comes to mind as well as a few antique varietes. What is unsucessfull with what your planting?

[Culvercreek hunt club]

G-Man...you took the words out of my mouth.....Silver queen is my absolute favorite corn of the year

[RangerClay]

Yeah but silver queen is a 100 day corn.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

http://gurneys.com/silver-queen-hybrid-su-sweet-corn/p/14455/      88 day.

If you like tender white corn, my buddy did use these as well. Not quite as sweet but very good.

http://www.2bseeds.com/sweetcornwhiteextra.shtml      72 days

You have to pay attention to cross pollination with these varieties though. It will reduce that sweetness.

He said he was going to try a silver KING this year but has never used it before so he had no recommendation (assuming it ever quits raining and he gets it in)

[Dave]

Guy's would like to plant corn this year. Have an acre that is now grass, was a meadow that has been cut for the past 4 yrs. What do I need to do to get started?

Dave

[Culvercreek hunt club]

SOIL TEST!!

then he can figure actual planting costs. the seed  and planting may not be the largest effort. Getting the soil to where it is needed may take the time and $$$

[Dave]

SOIL TEST!!

then he can figure actual planting costs. the seed  and planting may not be the largest effort. Getting the soil to where it is needed may take the time and $$$

Two years ago I had the soil tested and they recommended putting down 2 ton of lime. So I had a guy who does food plots come over and he said he had to kill all of the grass and weeds. When he finally showed up he put down weed killer over the acre and never came back. Contacted him and he said it was too wet to plant the corn. Funny I cut the grass every two weeks and never had a problem. So no corn planted that year, willing to try again. He called it the no till method anyone familiar with that type of planting?

Dave

[G-Man]

Dave, corn loves old sod..and so do potatoes!! Get spraying roundup or genaric equivilent and wait till it dies and plow under, disk it and drag if nesassary. plant and fert. 10-10-10 is good, a soil test will tell you what of more is needed. If your planting this to eat (sweet corn) plant 6-8 rows and stager a week or so apart this will give you corn for about a month at peak sweetness. If your doing corn for deer,  I'll get a lot of flack for this ..but if you don't soil test(and i don't alot) the plant itself will tell you what it needs,if turnng purplish it needs more potassium, and adding urea (45-0-0 all nitrogen) as a side dressing when plants are about 18in hight will give you maximum yield!  The decomposing plant material you turned under will raise the soil temp and provide a lot of nutrients as well. Doing something is better than nothing! An acre isn't that big and the money spent on fert if you have to add more later won't be to bad. The ph level affects the plants ability to absorb nutrients the plants will still grow just need to add more fert to get max nutrition into the plant! Very important for a farmer not so much to a deer! Yes it will give more paletability to the plant and deer will eat that first but if your the only one planting a foodplot they'll eat it anyway!

[Dave]

Dave, corn loves old sod..and so do potatoes!! Get spraying roundup or genaric equivilent and wait till it dies and plow under, disk it and drag if nesassary. plant and fert. 10-10-10 is good, a soil test will tell you what of more is needed. If your planting this to eat (sweet corn) plant 6-8 rows and stager a week or so apart this will give you corn for about a month at peak sweetness. If your doing corn for deer,  I'll get a lot of flack for this ..but if you don't soil test(and i don't alot) the plant itself will tell you what it needs,if turnng purplish it needs more potassium, and adding urea (45-0-0 all nitrogen) as a side dressing when plants are about 18in hight will give you maximum yield!  The decomposing plant material you turned under will raise the soil temp and provide a lot of nutrients as well. Doing something is better than nothing! An acre isn't that big and the money spent on fert if you have to add more later won't be to bad. The ph level affects the plants ability to absorb nutrients the plants will still grow just need to add more fert to get max nutrition into the plant! Very important for a farmer not so much to a deer! Yes it will give more paletability to the plant and deer will eat that first but if your the only one planting a foodplot they'll eat it anyway!

G-Man thanks for the information will be very helpful.

Dave

[G-Man]

I've used no till on ground that was previously worked,tough to do through 30 year old sod. the biggest mistake people do when planting corn is putting the seed in the ground before the ground temp has had a chance to warm for proper germination! The seed will stay cold and wet and rot,  warm and wet ok as seed will sprout but to wet and it will drown. Are you looking to plant field corn, or sweet corn?

[phade]

I've had really good luck with Peaches and Cream. I forget...but I think it is around 72-4 days.

I plant in blocks because I don't plant much of it and I get better results than in rows. Stagger planting gave me about 4 weeks of great corn.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

I agree with G-man 100%. He is spot on. THe Ph is a huge factor for the use of the fertilizer. If the Ph is way off you just have to use alot more which means addition money for unused fertilizer. Corn is a Nitrogen stripper (hence the crop rotation of many farmers). If that isn't an option you just have to pour it to the ground. I have never seen that mention method for planting corn (no til) but I have seen it used for soybeans so I can't imagine it is much different. Seems to be prefered method when you don't have a lot of time to work the soil and it isn't is a compact state.

[RangerClay]

  Ummm Guys could you take the soil test elsewhere. 

Lets get back to the subject at hand.  Corn seed.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Sorry. Thought it was relevant. You had mentioned that you had had poor results. To be honest there really isn't a "bad" seed on the market so it had to be either you or mother natures fault for the failure...lol

[growalot]

What did you mean by bad results?

Was it grow....fungus and bug attacks ...taste?

Do you live with in 1/2 mile down wind of field corn?...for hybrid /field x pollination is a no..no if you want true tender sweet corn...it gets worse with the type of hybrid....se..sh2...su....Then you need to consider that if planting 2 different hybrids if they need isolation...su from sh2....se from su and sh2 ....other than that ...I like sugar baby and peaches and cream...gives me a longer season

[G-Man]

Ok Ranger finailly made it home,  the shortest i've have grown is Vitality 66 day bicolor, and Seneca Arrow head  bicolor 65 days. Still not sure what failure you had.. most any certified seed grows or were you just not happy with the flavor? oh both are by montisano seed company if you want them.