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- From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: thinning corn
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 08:14:34 -0500
Bob
When you thin is important because the
growing point of sweet corn doesn't reach the soil line until the plant is at
the 4-5 leaf stage. In other words, if you cut the plant off at the soil line
before it reaches 4-5 leaves, it will just grow back. That's why a frost won't
kill sweet corn normally. We just went through that. So make sure you chop it
out by the roots when you do it. The earlier you do it, the easier they come
out.
When sweet corn is too crowded some plants
won't produce an ear, or will produce a very small unmarketable one. Sacrificing
a few plants to achieve a proper stand is well worth the effort.
Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
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thinning corn,
Bob Brocious, 05/27/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: thinning corn, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 05/28/2002
- Re: thinning corn, Bill Shoemaker, 05/28/2002
- Re: thinning corn, MMQuiteCon, 05/29/2002
- Re: thinning corn, Allan Balliett, 05/30/2002
- Re: thinning corn, Wiediger, Alison, 05/30/2002
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