sweetcorn

[Topcat36]

Only sowed mine a week ago, never got round to putting them on windowsill to help germinate i just kept moving them about kitchen bloody things are 2 inches high now, didn't expect that so soon i swear i can see them growing , have 20 of them, managed to snap 1 tho, no idea what i am going to do with 19 now . If they keep growing at this rate i'm gonna be in trouble.

[NOG]

I have been growing in batches of 30 for the last 2 months and have another 2 batches to plant.
I a not going to plant any of them out till first of June.

If you pot the seeds today they will start sprouting in a week.

[walshie]

Not too late to sow direct, May is the recommened month to sow sweetcorn direct according to the instruction of my packets of increcidnle F! and tasty and sweet.

[minicrank]

If its any help I didn't sow mine to June last year and planted them out mid- June. They did brilliantly - but they were the mini ones.

[GreenPete]

It has always been hit and miss for me with sweetcorn. This year I read somewhere that they need heat to germinate then are OK at a lower temperature, or the chances are they will sit in damp compost and rot. So this year I started them off in my propagator and most of them were through in the first 3 days.

[GreenPete]

I'm going to make a second sowing this weekend, they soon catch up and it stop there being a glut, though there are plenty of people who are willing to take them off my hands

[bluemoon]

I never sow mine until mid-May and always have a superb crop in September.

[SarzWix]

Well, i've only had about 6 out of 20 germinate this year and I've never had any issues with sweetcorn before. I think it might be a bit late to start again, so we may be cobless this year. My daughter's mini-pop is also being very slow to germinate.

[COMPOST CORNER]

I put mine in moist kitchen paper in the airing cupboard to germinate, took abot 48 hours, then planted those in compost in loo roll tubes, back in the airing cupboard. Most produced shoots within 24 hours, the rest are appearing gradually on a south facing window sill in an unheated propogator.

[Flummery]

The farmers round here sow direct in May - they were drilling them last week. You want to see the crops they get too! Our mate grows them as winter fodder for his cattle but when the new cobs are ripe they always pick a few for the table (and friends!). They are not Supersweet or anything posh but the freshness makes them fantastic.

[bluemoon]

yup, think so, they looked a bit manky when i dug them up. i now have some on kitchen towel in the airing cupboard, do u think this might be more successful? thanks for the help! x

That's the method I always use and you usually have a visible shoot within a day or two of planting out. Just pop them into individual pots when they've produced a root that's between 1 and 2cms long, you quite often have to do this over a period of 2 or 3 days as some germinate faster than others, but I guarantee you'll have some sweetcorn plants within a week of putting them to sprout.

[Creemteez]

If in doubt, go with Compost Corners idea and chit 'em. It really speeds up the germination process!

[Two_Sheds]

Two Sheds, I have grown mine in paper pots, is it ok to leave them in these until its time to plant out? I was a bit concerned that the pots weren't deep enough. The pots are approx 8cm high, the plants are already around 16cm.

Plant them out (in the pots) asap - when they have been hardened off properly (7-10 days) and after your last frost.