sweetcorn

[Safhyre]

How tall should it be (ish) before planting out?
Also can sweet corn be planted in succession...eg planting 4 every say week for 6 - 8 weeks?

many thanks

[SarzWix]

Hi

I've moved your thread out of Growing Techniques into an appropriate board.

Thanks

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...here_4846.html

[Geo]

How tall should it be (ish) before planting out?
Also can sweet corn be planted in succession...eg planting 4 every say week for 6 - 8 weeks?

many thanks

Safhyre...

Sweet corn needs a long growing season...

Here is a good guide to growing corn.. >>>Click<<<

Geo..

[womble]

How tall should it be (ish) before planting out?
Also can sweet corn be planted in succession...eg planting 4 every say week for 6 - 8 weeks?

many thanks

Not too tall as it likes to spread its roots, hopefully you have it in deep pots or rootrainers.

Your main problem is the weather, they like warm conditions, I haven't sown mine yet....

You don't plant it in succession, you want the whole lot to be at one time, so you get good pollination. Besides we haven't got time to succession plant with the weather in this country!

[Safhyre]

SARZWIZ - sorry, I had thought of vegging out but thought the other one was better, my error

GEO - thanks for the link, will read and injest

WOMBLE - succession is out of the window

[bluemoon]

I will not be sowing mine until mid-May and the growing season lasts too long for a later sowing, the mid-May batch will only just be ready in time. You are further south though so you might get away with a couple of sowings two or three weeks apart. (you might be able to start earlier). The best thing in my opinion though is to just prepare for a sweetcorn bonanza and enjoy.

PS, mine are usually about 8 inches tall when they go out in mid to late-June.

[Victoria26]

I didn't realise I could plant my seeds in root trainers!! Oooo I've got some sowing to do!

[Gwyndy]

My sweet corn is about 1 1/2" high at the moment. When it gets to about 3" I will harden it off in the cold frame and plant out when about 6".

Succession sowing - this won't work. Sweet corn needs to be grown in a block (18" spacing) to aid pollination.

[bluemoon]

My sweet corn is about 1 1/2" high at the moment. When it gets to about 3" I will harden it off in the cold frame and plant out when about 6".

Succession sowing - this won't work. Sweet corn needs to be grown in a block (18" spacing) to aid pollination.

But you could perhaps do two blocks?

[Mustard]

I've sowed mine in toilet rolls, is this OK, should give room for the roots?

Where I plan to plant out later is a little shady, do they need FULL sun?

Thanks

[Eyren]

Mine are in deep rootrainers; some are at least an inch tall already, even though they were only sown last week! I did put them in a heated propagator at 16C, though, which may account for their enthusiasm.

Mind you, that guide says that sweetcorn hates clay, so obviously my efforts are doomed to failure *lol*

[Demeter]

I sowed by first batch on 1 April and although some are yet to germinate there are quite a few whizzing up, the tallest about 3" already!! And did not give any heat, just an unheated propagator, now with lid off. It didn't even get a spot on the windowsill until the first one germinated, which was after about 7 days.

I have 3 different varieties to grow this year and since I was uncertain about cross-pollination (as per the other recent thread) I am sowing in three batches - next batch in late April, final batch in mid-May, with the middle batch being grown at home and the others at the lottie. There should be enough for each variety to be pollinated with its fellows but (I hope!) not with different varieties being ready at the same time to cross-pollinate with each other. It may not work as the later sowings will catch up to some extent but hopefully by growing the middle batch completely separately from the others I will have a chance!

[Safhyre]

ok, I think I will do 2 batches...the first batch are about inches tall...and not done in root trainers.....but i will buy some to grow the second batch in...

I am just hopin for a high yeald....my son and I luuuuuuuurve sweet corn

[Geo]

I have eighty seedlings on the go...

We also love corn on the cob

Geo..

[SarzWix]

I don't grow mine in root trainers, I don't have enough of them, and the ones I do have get used for beans. I sow sweetcorn into peat or coir pots that you plant out with the plant, they've always been happy enough in them The weather ruined them last year though, we only got about 3 cobs and they were fairly poor