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Old 04/16/14, 02:22 PM
 
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frost on new corn
Planted corn in garden first week in April. It is up about 2 inches. Temp this morning was 33 with frost on grass. Checked it about 11 AM and didn't see any damage. Very slightly warmer forecast for tonight.

Corn is Bloody Butcher field corn and Merit sweet corn.

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Old 04/16/14, 02:56 PM
 
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sounds
sounds like u were lucky...
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Old 04/16/14, 04:41 PM
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If I recall correctly, the growing point of corn stays below the ground until the plant is 6" tall, so if it's shorter than that and you have frost it can live through it.
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Old 04/16/14, 08:31 PM
 
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Mines same highth COW. Same result. Looks to be doing fine
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Old 04/16/14, 08:49 PM
 
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Even if it burns it back it should be fine. I'd put the growing point above geound closer to 3-4" then 6 though.
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