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Someone gave me a few sweetcorn plants that were surplus to their
requirements. I've planted them but as with most surplus plants they
probably went in a bit later than optimum.
They have grown well and the one flower on each are just beginning to show
but not yet open. I don't know whether they are too late to produce crops
and so dig them up?
What stage should they be at?

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David Stokes wrote:
Someone gave me a few sweetcorn plants that were surplus to their
requirements. I've planted them but as with most surplus plants they
probably went in a bit later than optimum.
They have grown well and the one flower on each are just beginning to show
but not yet open. I don't know whether they are too late to produce crops
and so dig them up?


... flower?
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On 2 Aug, 14:14, David Stokes wrote:
Someone gave me a few sweetcorn plants that were surplus to their
requirements. I've planted them but as with most surplus plants they
probably went in a bit later than optimum.
They have grown well and the one flower on each are just beginning to show
but not yet open. I don't know whether they are too late to produce crops
and so dig them up?
What stage should they be at?

DAvy


Mine are 5 or 6 feet high and the cobs are pollinated (tassels on cobs
turning brown) Should be ready in a couple of weeks. I am irrigating
regularly. I chuck loads of compost round them too.
But it depends where you live. I am in Herefordshire.
They will be OK, don't worry unless we have exceptionally cold weather
this month.. They progress very quickly from the point your's are at
now.They need another month of warm weather so you should be OK.
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harry wrote:
Mine are 5 or 6 feet high and the cobs are pollinated (tassels on cobs
turning brown) Should be ready in a couple of weeks. I am irrigating
regularly. I chuck loads of compost round them too.


Ours are pollinated, but surprisingly short still. The baby sweetcorn are
taller, but appear to have no fruit.

We tried planting through weed blanket this year (pretty much everything
planted in the past month or two has, not sure why, but that's not my area
or decision making place)
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harry wrote in
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On 2 Aug, 14:14, David Stokes wrote:
Someone gave me a few sweetcorn plants that were surplus to their
requirements. I've planted them but as with most surplus plants they
probably went in a bit later than optimum.
They have grown well and the one flower on each are just beginning to
show but not yet open. I don't know whether they are too late to
produce crops and so dig them up?
What stage should they be at?

DAvy


Mine are 5 or 6 feet high and the cobs are pollinated (tassels on cobs
turning brown) Should be ready in a couple of weeks. I am irrigating
regularly. I chuck loads of compost round them too.
But it depends where you live. I am in Herefordshire.
They will be OK, don't worry unless we have exceptionally cold weather
this month.. They progress very quickly from the point your's are at
now.They need another month of warm weather so you should be OK.


Thanks Harry, I will give them a chance to mature. DAvy


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David Stokes wrote in
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Someone gave me a few sweetcorn plants that were surplus to their
requirements. I've planted them but as with most surplus plants they
probably went in a bit later than optimum.
They have grown well and the one flower on each are just beginning to
show but not yet open. I don't know whether they are too late to
produce crops and so dig them up?
What stage should they be at?

DAvy


Now that I know a little more about sweetcorn I can add that it is only the
male flowers at the top that are visible (but not yet open). The female
flowers, from which the cobs develop, are not yet visible at all.

I live in Wessex and it is raining - I am very pessimistic that I am going
to see any ripe cobs.

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I live in Wessex and it is raining


Give my regards to Thomas Hardy when you see him!
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David Stokes wrote:

Someone gave me a few sweetcorn plants that were surplus to their
requirements. I've planted them but as with most surplus plants they
probably went in a bit later than optimum.
They have grown well and the one flower on each are just beginning to
show but not yet open. I don't know whether they are too late to
produce crops and so dig them up?
What stage should they be at?


Now that I know a little more about sweetcorn I can add that it is only the
male flowers at the top that are visible (but not yet open). The female
flowers, from which the cobs develop, are not yet visible at all.


They won't ripen, anyway, but you don't want them to. Sweetcorn is
known as green mealies in southern Africa, precisely because it is
eaten unripe. You may be in luck, if there is some decent weather
in September, so I recommend leaving them.

If yours have male flowers visible, they are only a fortnight behind
mine, which went in at an appropriate time.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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