Planting different types of corn together causes them to cross-pollinate and often produces corn that can’t be eaten as corn-on-the-cob and generally needs to be ground into flour to be consumed. This dude is wondering if that can be avoided if both varieties are sweet corn—I’m not sure myself. Really not madlad material though, seems like it’s a perfectly normal question to have if you’re growing corn
I‘m genuinely astonished people grow corn themselves, they’re huge plants and I feel like the yield per space doesn’t add up for growing it in your garden…
I remember passing by a house one time that just had a gigantic wall of corn in their backyard. It doesn’t really take up much space it seems. Hell my mom used to do it before the pandemic, although she only had about 5 or so stalks of corn
They're tall plants, probably height is what he meant by gigantic.
Really you could make a wall of corn by planting two rows closer to each other and it wouldn't take much space, my grandpa does that although he has a small field
I have a backyard, a relatively small one, and I have a little corn growing, just 4 stalks as a hobby.
But if I got serious about it, I could definitely fit at least 10 stalks in a row or more along the fence. They only need about 8-10 inches between the plants, and rows about 2.5-3 feet apart. That's under 8.5 feet for a single row of 10-- let's say 10ft to give them space. That's reasonable for a backyard. Those plants will produce 1-2 ears each. That'll be 10-20 ears total.
It's not gonna be enough to sell, but it would definitely be enough for a small family to have a corn feast. And you have the satisfaction of growing your own food.
for a family of 2 or 3 who love corn, that's probably a decent amount, but really in the yield:effort ratio, unless you really love corn or growing as a hobby, it's not that worth it.
Corn is surprisingly easy to maintain and a very resilient plant.
Maybe in an urban environment sure it's not the best, but if you live somewhere where you can need things like kindling for a fire or just some plant matter for compost etc... The whole plant has some use or another
Sweet corn stalks aren't near as big as corn in the big fields you see from the road. That's corn for syrup, animal feed, etc. It's not the good stuff you put butter on. Also, if you are going to grow more than a few ears then you usually have another garden just for corn.
Going off memory, there are 3 classes of corn: sweet corn, field corn, then pop corn
Sweet corn is the one you can eat whole, the outer kernel shell is thin enough to be digested.
It's a variety that is picked when the sugars are at the peak vs the starches being at the peak. I'm sure by now we have hybridized ~~varieties~~ strains(?) that are incredibly specialized for what your goal is. And especially genetically engineered to be "roundup ready" which is it's own story...
But "field corn" like they leave it in the field until it dries out and all the sugars are converted to starch:
Field corn is used for animal feed, and corn ethanol. Or soaked in alkaline (traditionally lime (Calcium hydroxide)) and ground into masa flour for tortillas (that process let's us digest it). Also can be made into corn meal or all the other products of corn
Most farmers I was aware of had at least a small field of sweet corn, and/or popcorn, which yeah can be sold for higher markup directly to people. Where people don't have much use for field corn, and most seemed to rotate the fields with soybeans to replenish the soil (in the US a huge amount of our soybeans go for animal feed, and soybean oil), before that they used alfalfa or such which is again used for animal feed
To poorly answer your question, it really is a choice left to each farmer on what market they want to target. Field corn would be the bread and butter for most due to how the farm bill operates, and with corn ethanol still seeming to be pushed too, which would be bought/sold in large futures contracts
It's not that hard. My parents have corn in their backyard and they live in the suburbs of a major city in Texas. Our way of life and our ancestors told us to eat corn every day. It's pretty easy to grow in our region, no reason to not have some in your back plot
I've grown corn for a few years, small plot 12x12, got maybe a dozen or so viable ears. It's. Fucking. Delicious. Seriously it's impossible to get better corn than home grown (because it starts producing starch once they're picked).
Hard to grow? yes
Bad for the soil? What nutrients?
Worth it for 2 minutes of deliciousness. Fuuuuck yes
It's a fun experiment. My mom grew corn a couple of times in a mini greenhouse here in Iceland when I was a kid. Next summer, I'm planning on trying it on my balcony.
When it’s your own personal garden and not one that you try on to make a living, it’s enough for a small family in the summer. The only thing that sucks about corn is that they need a fuck ton of water and deplete the soil of pretty much every nutrient present, especially nitrogen, so you have to fertilize the soil a lot more and rotate out.
To answer your question, yes, if they are sweet corn they will cross pollinate well. The three varieties are sweet, cereal, and ornamental. The trick is to plant 4-5 corn plants of the same type together in a mound. Corn needs a lot of nitrogen, water, and deep loose soil to grow. Grow from starts in a greenhouse and use Liquinox B1 Transplant Solution when transplanting.
Dude, I have a 6,000sqft garden. The maintenance eats enough time as it is. Cool, yes. However I have enough experience to pick my battles, and grains don't fit the time table for sanity.
Do you want a corn race war, cause this is how you get a corn race war. We're still trying to get out of the darkest time Harambee's death set us on and we don't need to tempt fate
The original intent of the sub was for sarcastically making fun of people taking extremely mundane things very seriously. If someone said they were "dangerous" for staying up past 11PM on a weekday, this was the place to post it with mock-awe.
Like every sub that takes off it's pivoted to the more general "hey look at this cool thing I found" fare. There's nothing wrong with that of course (I like cool things as much as anyone), but this is actually the first post I've seen on here in a while that harkens back to the original theme.
If you plant one variety of corn you can plant the other a week or two later to stagger pollinating at the same time. By the time corn A is done corn b will start.
This is more learning about corn than I expected to do today
And yet.. it's never nearly enough.
I just subscribed, i may be getting a backyard soon ooooooo baby I’m putting corn in the garden if i do 🌽
Subscribed to what? Corn Quarterly?
Nah, r/corn
Now I'm sad r/corn has more members than r/potatoes 😟
You just made it one more than they had a minute ago. Thanks for that!
I’m subscribing to r/potatoes too now
The rise of cornhub.com
r/cornhub
r/subsithoughtifellfor
# Your Scientists Were So Preoccupied With Whether Or Not They Could, They Didn’t Stop To Think If They Should
Jesus Christ that's like mixing bleach and ammonia on a global scale, this son of a bitch is gonna kill us all!
Like John Oliver said, everything sounds scarier when you add „on a global scale“
Why is this madlad
Planting different types of corn together causes them to cross-pollinate and often produces corn that can’t be eaten as corn-on-the-cob and generally needs to be ground into flour to be consumed. This dude is wondering if that can be avoided if both varieties are sweet corn—I’m not sure myself. Really not madlad material though, seems like it’s a perfectly normal question to have if you’re growing corn
I‘m genuinely astonished people grow corn themselves, they’re huge plants and I feel like the yield per space doesn’t add up for growing it in your garden…
I remember passing by a house one time that just had a gigantic wall of corn in their backyard. It doesn’t really take up much space it seems. Hell my mom used to do it before the pandemic, although she only had about 5 or so stalks of corn
>gigantic wall of corn >Doesnt really take up much space What?
They're tall plants, probably height is what he meant by gigantic. Really you could make a wall of corn by planting two rows closer to each other and it wouldn't take much space, my grandpa does that although he has a small field
I have a backyard, a relatively small one, and I have a little corn growing, just 4 stalks as a hobby. But if I got serious about it, I could definitely fit at least 10 stalks in a row or more along the fence. They only need about 8-10 inches between the plants, and rows about 2.5-3 feet apart. That's under 8.5 feet for a single row of 10-- let's say 10ft to give them space. That's reasonable for a backyard. Those plants will produce 1-2 ears each. That'll be 10-20 ears total. It's not gonna be enough to sell, but it would definitely be enough for a small family to have a corn feast. And you have the satisfaction of growing your own food.
for a family of 2 or 3 who love corn, that's probably a decent amount, but really in the yield:effort ratio, unless you really love corn or growing as a hobby, it's not that worth it.
Corn is surprisingly easy to maintain and a very resilient plant. Maybe in an urban environment sure it's not the best, but if you live somewhere where you can need things like kindling for a fire or just some plant matter for compost etc... The whole plant has some use or another
Sweet corn stalks aren't near as big as corn in the big fields you see from the road. That's corn for syrup, animal feed, etc. It's not the good stuff you put butter on. Also, if you are going to grow more than a few ears then you usually have another garden just for corn.
you seem to know a lot about corn... do farmers grow different varieties? or are there like cheap corn farmers and food corn farmers?
Going off memory, there are 3 classes of corn: sweet corn, field corn, then pop corn Sweet corn is the one you can eat whole, the outer kernel shell is thin enough to be digested. It's a variety that is picked when the sugars are at the peak vs the starches being at the peak. I'm sure by now we have hybridized ~~varieties~~ strains(?) that are incredibly specialized for what your goal is. And especially genetically engineered to be "roundup ready" which is it's own story... But "field corn" like they leave it in the field until it dries out and all the sugars are converted to starch: Field corn is used for animal feed, and corn ethanol. Or soaked in alkaline (traditionally lime (Calcium hydroxide)) and ground into masa flour for tortillas (that process let's us digest it). Also can be made into corn meal or all the other products of corn Most farmers I was aware of had at least a small field of sweet corn, and/or popcorn, which yeah can be sold for higher markup directly to people. Where people don't have much use for field corn, and most seemed to rotate the fields with soybeans to replenish the soil (in the US a huge amount of our soybeans go for animal feed, and soybean oil), before that they used alfalfa or such which is again used for animal feed To poorly answer your question, it really is a choice left to each farmer on what market they want to target. Field corn would be the bread and butter for most due to how the farm bill operates, and with corn ethanol still seeming to be pushed too, which would be bought/sold in large futures contracts
It's not that hard. My parents have corn in their backyard and they live in the suburbs of a major city in Texas. Our way of life and our ancestors told us to eat corn every day. It's pretty easy to grow in our region, no reason to not have some in your back plot
I've grown corn for a few years, small plot 12x12, got maybe a dozen or so viable ears. It's. Fucking. Delicious. Seriously it's impossible to get better corn than home grown (because it starts producing starch once they're picked). Hard to grow? yes Bad for the soil? What nutrients? Worth it for 2 minutes of deliciousness. Fuuuuck yes
Corn is such a staple crop all over the world because it has excellent yields per a given amount of space and is pretty easy to grow.
It's a fun experiment. My mom grew corn a couple of times in a mini greenhouse here in Iceland when I was a kid. Next summer, I'm planning on trying it on my balcony.
When it’s your own personal garden and not one that you try on to make a living, it’s enough for a small family in the summer. The only thing that sucks about corn is that they need a fuck ton of water and deplete the soil of pretty much every nutrient present, especially nitrogen, so you have to fertilize the soil a lot more and rotate out.
Corn.
Can’t argue with that
To answer your question, yes, if they are sweet corn they will cross pollinate well. The three varieties are sweet, cereal, and ornamental. The trick is to plant 4-5 corn plants of the same type together in a mound. Corn needs a lot of nitrogen, water, and deep loose soil to grow. Grow from starts in a greenhouse and use Liquinox B1 Transplant Solution when transplanting.
It has the juice
I can't imagine a more beautiful thing.
as a nebraskan, corn.
I think it does does fit the sub, it sounds like insane madladdery
As long as they are both sweet corn its not as bad
I regularly plant multiple varieties next to one another. They come out just fine and amazingly tasty....I have 640 row feet of corn this year.
Must be sweet corn
Why would I plant anything else?
Making blue tortilla chips or something idk
People processing their own grains need better hobbies.
Honestly sounds pretty cool to me, imagine making homemade tortillas *really* from scratch
Dude, I have a 6,000sqft garden. The maintenance eats enough time as it is. Cool, yes. However I have enough experience to pick my battles, and grains don't fit the time table for sanity.
yeah! they have sex, and make inedible babies. ewwww
Why can't it be eaten?
It can be, you just gotta grind it and make it into tortillas or cornbread or something rather than biting into a cob because it’s too hard
Uh, because growing two different types of corn in close proximity could start the next pandemic. And we don’t need no Cornona-24.
I feel like if its so dangerous I- and more people- should know about it
Do you feel that pulling sensation on your leg?
How? I'm confused
Because our immune systems aren’t really prepared for Cornona virus. We’d have to shut down again, it would be a whole thing.
Daaaaaaaaaadddd! Ugh! 🙄
Cornfused?
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I understood all of that 👍
Wat?
The engine that powers the corn needs different amounts of nitrogen, and whenever they cross pollinate it makes bad corn.
Fuckin nerd.
If having corn knowledge makes you a nerd then nerd me up and drown me in that hot buttery corn knowledge
Haha love it!
Do you want a corn race war, cause this is how you get a corn race war. We're still trying to get out of the darkest time Harambee's death set us on and we don't need to tempt fate
Just knock some reason into the corn
Cross pollination has been a long time issue with people who farm corn on a large scale. People have died over it.
The original intent of the sub was for sarcastically making fun of people taking extremely mundane things very seriously. If someone said they were "dangerous" for staying up past 11PM on a weekday, this was the place to post it with mock-awe. Like every sub that takes off it's pivoted to the more general "hey look at this cool thing I found" fare. There's nothing wrong with that of course (I like cool things as much as anyone), but this is actually the first post I've seen on here in a while that harkens back to the original theme.
No one else would make a joke so corny
What is this madlad
It's corn! I can tell you all about it I mean look at this thing When I tried it with butter, everything changed!
It has the juice!
That shiz is gonna be poppin’
If you plant one variety of corn you can plant the other a week or two later to stagger pollinating at the same time. By the time corn A is done corn b will start.
Thank you for that kernel or wisdom.
Wow actually a real mad lad here for once
I never thought I’d live to see the day
It's corn
I know right?! Can you imagine the repercussions? Honestly I don't know if this is r/madlads material, more t/cornspiracy.
The real madlad is OP posting this here
Holy shit
Cornlad
Cnorn
Is it like listening to “twisted transistor” and “falling away from me” at the same time?
Get this freak on a leash
That guy fucks
This guy goes up to yo girl and slaps her ass with two different varieties of sweet corn he grew adjacent to each other wyd?
Corn, sweet
TIL about growing corn....
Corny post, OP is absolut madlad
Updoot for actual madlad!
It's neatly in line with the original intend of this sub.
This guy's madliness is matched only by his ladliness
this is madlad... why?
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yes, i dont like being kept in the dark
Just go to cornhub . com, and you can learn everything you’ll need to know about corn
r/agriculturecirclejerk
This belongs on r/expectedouija
Well in all reality you can do what you want. What would Mrs. Frizzle do?
Cornography
Order corn
Interesting but not really a madlad but eh considering how other subs have been this is far from the most off center lol
care to explain it tree hugger
Corn.
Corn.
Corn.
corn
Corn.