This is a follow up from my previous corn post. These are just some of the more unusual varieties I grew this year. At this stage I dont know if I will be able to grow corn next year, but we will see what happens. I will have the seeds to plant the following year so if I do end up missing a year or two it is not the end of the world.
Argent
The argent white corn ended up doing a lot better than I thought it would. Very few of the super sweet corns cope with extreme heat, most died off completely. I love this variety, it is the most delicious variety of corn I have ever eaten. Most of the cobs were not completely filled out due to the heat and some of it was crossed with another variety of corn (this was deliberate, it is simple to tell which seeds are which) and I ended up with what looks like a good amount of pure seed.
I expected less seeds to form than I ended up getting so am pretty happy. I have had a severe genetic bottleneck here by starting with so few parent plants so plan to grow out as many seeds as possible next time. If possible I would love to track down someone who is also growing argent and swap some seeds.
I deliberately crossed the argent with another variety of corn. The F1 seed is coloured and the pure seed is white so can easily be separated. I would love to grow out the F1 seed and produce a stable strain, but I may not have time or space so we will have to wait and see what happens. I may even ask for someone to do a growout of some of this seed.
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| Some of the poorly filled out Argent cobs, white seeds are pure and coloured seeds are deliberate crosses |
Giant Incan White corn
Watching this corn grow was amazing, it was different from every variety I have ever seen. From a distance it is easy to tell this apart from every other variety. It grew huge, then the heat damaged a lot of the plants. Most varieties of corn will not shed pollen if the tops are damaged (making F1 seed simple to produce) but this variety decides to sprout and grow new tassels. It is very resilient. Each plant grew a cob, then they grew half a dozen more cobs from the same point! I have never seen this trait in any other variety of corn. Unfortunately I got very few cobs with any seeds due to the weather and wildlife. These cobs are drying at the moment, it looks like I will get a small amount of seed from these.
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| One cob, you can see more cobs starting to form underneath |
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| Cobs forming 7 feet up the stalk, the leaves all have damage from the heat |
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| The cob was just starting to produce silk |
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| Giant Inca white corn next to mini blue popcorn |
Glass Bead corn
What can I say, these guys know what they are doing. Nothing particularly bothers glass bead corn. It is now a good popcorn, in another year or two if things keep going the way they are going it will be a great popcorn variety.
Mini blue popcorn
This was damaged by the heat badly but still provided a decent yield. The plants grew well, the cobs look great and are mostly well filled out and the seeds pop extremely well. The plants had to compete with grass and had a small fruit tree close by with roots under them. My kids think this popcorn is heaps of fun. I wrote a separate post on this little guy.
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| Blue popcorn plants - growing well in less than ideal conditions |
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| mini blue popcorn cobs - not too bad considering the growing conditions |
Blue sweetcorn
This is actually a decent variety of corn, I dont know why I have not heard of it anywhere else. I got a good number of cobs, most were poorly filled out due to the weather. I like the look of blue corn so plan on growing this again.
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| Blue sweetcorn, poorly filled out cobs this year but it produced a good number of seed. |
I am selling seeds of some corn varieties but not others. At this stage I can not sell seeds from every variety, hopefully one day I will be able to do that. Please visit my for sale page if you are interested.
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