Growing Corn..? I am growing Maize ( Sweet Corn) The plants have get nice...
I am growing Maize ( Sweet Corn)
The plants have get nice flower on top loaded with seed that bring some kine of yellow powder. And I be wondering if I do have to help out the plant with pollunating ?
And also What size of a pot does the fully grown plant require? I enjoy them in close to 1.5kg pots. about 15cm actoss wide-ranging.
THX
Never hear of growing corn in a pot.The wan powder from the Tossle(top) is the pollen.It needs to spatter on the silk sticking out of the top of the ear of corn.Keep plants close together to ensure pollination.Each strand of silk is a row of kernals.If not well pollinated you will not produce full rows of kernals. Grow on!
Those aren't seeds on top they're call "tassels" where the pollen is produced to pollenate the "silks" on the ears that grow along the stem. Corn should be planted within at least 4 (or more) rows (according to an "prehistoric timer" friend) to self pollenate.
You can use a paintbrush to collect pollen and transfer it to the silks.
Answers: Corn is wind pollinated, so it must be planted contained by a block of several rows for even pollination. Plant at least 3 rows side-by-side (rows 36 inches apart) or surrounded by a circle to insure good pollination.
The wan powder is pollen it will fall or blown to feminine flower below(on top of a corn ear) thus complete pollination. But sometime the male flower blooms but the womanly flower on the same plant is untrained, therefore it is best to grow a few corn plant together within order to capture some harvest.
Corn is prepared when the ears are completely filled and a pierced kernel shows a milky white fluid. A good sign of corn cob compliance is when the silk turns brown and crisp.
I think your pot is little too small, check the soil on top and below to see whether near is any roots appearing, if yes means pot to small(since it is flowering newly leave it). Anyway corn don't resembling transplanting so don't re-pot them, get a larger pot(at tiniest a 30cm wide for one plant) subsequent time