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08/04/10, 09:39 AM
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Seven ear of corn on one stalk!
A farmer friend of mine stopped by yesterday, you know the type of visit that starts with "come out to my truck, I have something to show you"?
He had two stalks of corn that he found in one of his fields - seven ears of corn each. Of course, my question was "Why didn't you let them mature and collect the seeds instead of pulling it up to show around town?" He was headed to the newspaper office to see if they wanted a picture. All in all, it was pretty amazing.
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08/04/10, 10:02 AM
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That is pretty amazing. Field corn, or sweet corn? I'm most familiar with field corn.
I've seen 5 or so.
Typically a corn plant does best with one ear. Sometimes 2 will work out. But they will often re-absorb or abort most of the extra ears, and only really grow one actual worthwhile ear. Might as well harvest them when they look cool with all the ears looking the same size.
If you supply lots of N and space the corn way too far apart, they will set more ears. But you actually lose ground; if you'd space the seed properly probably coulda grown 9 real good plants with 9 good ears in the same space as this 7-eared stalk used.
Still quite something, to get 7 ears to form on a plant. Cool.
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08/04/10, 11:03 AM
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I know it's not what you're talking about, but here is a picture of my heirloom sweet corn (Six Shooter...supposed to grow up to 6 ears on one stalk) that grew ten ears in one husk. Very odd indeed!
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08/04/10, 11:25 AM
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Mamma, that is very cool! I have some corn growing right now, strange, it has a bunch of stalks comeing up from each seed.
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08/04/10, 11:44 AM
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Wow! That's neat.. and strange looking! LOL
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08/04/10, 11:52 AM
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A little more than a decade ago I saw a 6 ear stalk and a 7 ear stalk growing at Jay, OK.
The corn was planted in holes in DeWitt Sunbelt landscape fabric and was drip irrigated.
The fabric had been installed over a bed prepared with several inches of mushroom compost and cross-linked polyacrylamide (CLP) and nutrient amendments.
The CLP absorbs rain or irrigation and allows the roots of plants to tap into the reserve anytime it is needed thus reducing plant stress from watering cycles.
The variety was Kandy Korn which will often set two ears under good conditions.
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08/04/10, 12:05 PM
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I havnt seen anything but double ears on modern farmed, modern corn seed. I see it alot here in Okla, where a rich farmer does corn. The only one round here that does, other than me when I farm. BUT he has the money to buy the best seed, puts on plenty of the right amount of fertilizers, weed sprays, ect.. I seldom have the money to do that, when its needed being done.
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08/04/10, 12:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mammabooh
I know it's not what you're talking about, but here is a picture of my heirloom sweet corn (Six Shooter...supposed to grow up to 6 ears on one stalk) that grew ten ears in one husk. Very odd indeed!
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Are you sure that isn't Franken corn?
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08/04/10, 12:28 PM
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So, whilst watching Franken-ear growing... did you ever wonder what the heck was inside that husk? I'd be watchin' for lil' green men to pop out- after all, they do like corn fields....
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08/04/10, 12:30 PM
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Thats really neat...I love the oddities of Mother Nature.
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08/04/10, 12:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ramblinroseranc
so, whilst watching franken-ear growing... Did you ever wonder what the heck was inside that husk? I'd be watchin' for lil' green men to pop out- after all, they do like corn fields....
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lol! 
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08/04/10, 12:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Windy in Kansas
A little more than a decade ago I saw a 6 ear stalk and a 7 ear stalk growing at Jay, OK.
The corn was planted in holes in DeWitt Sunbelt landscape fabric and was drip irrigated.
The fabric had been installed over a bed prepared with several inches of mushroom compost and cross-linked polyacrylamide (CLP) and nutrient amendments.
The CLP absorbs rain or irrigation and allows the roots of plants to tap into the reserve anytime it is needed thus reducing plant stress from watering cycles.
The variety was Kandy Korn which will often set two ears under good conditions.
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I've grown kandy Korn, It always gave me two ears ber stalk, occasionally 3. thats without any fertilizing or really prepping the soil before or after I planted them. They grew 7 feet tall with no help from me.
That crazy picture up there is too cool. You could make the paper around here with that. Front page! PS, how did it taste? Do you now have 6 extra arms?
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08/04/10, 01:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RamblinRoseRanc
So, whilst watching Franken-ear growing... did you ever wonder what the heck was inside that husk? I'd be watchin' for lil' green men to pop out- after all, they do like corn fields....
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Hee Hee...no, I just thought it was a really big ear! We only ate the fully-formed main ear. The rest of it went to the chickens. They're still alive and kickin' so I guess it didn't hurt them!
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08/05/10, 08:22 AM
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aka RamblinRoseRanc :)
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Hmmm.... maybe they're percolating Franken-chickens and you'll soon have chickies with multiple legs. Boy, my youngest two would sure enjoy those extra legs! Our oldest used to call them chicken heads when she was younger.....
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08/05/10, 06:14 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mammabooh
I know it's not what you're talking about, but here is a picture of my heirloom sweet corn (Six Shooter...supposed to grow up to 6 ears on one stalk) that grew ten ears in one husk. Very odd indeed!
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I'd like to have a dozen kernels of that corn to grow.
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08/06/10, 04:04 AM
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Mama that is a crazy piece of corn! Too bizarre! And a little creepy....
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08/06/10, 05:23 PM
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Its a mutant..
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