Sweetcorn worms?

[Jenegade]

Most of my swift sweetcorn appear to have been eaten by little worms/nematodes. The worms/nematodes are a few millimetres long and kind of clear. I found them when all my last lot of seedlings rotted away at the base and these little pests were in the soil around the stem and had eaten out the seed. So I got rid of that batch and all the soil etc., planted new ones in different, clean pots and different, new compost, but the same thing has happened again! My minipop sweetcorn is doing fine, it's just the Swift ones that are dying!

Does this mean there is a problem with the Swift seeds I bought, i.e. they were diseased? Or was it something else? Is it too late up here to sow again? Help!

[Two_Sheds]

My Swift failed this year, and so did Rustylady's. Lark, Conqueror and Double Standard all grew fine.
Weird huh?

[SarzWix]

My Swift have all struggled too, the first lot germinated then all turned brown and died The second lot is looking a bit more promising, so far....

[Snadger]

My Incredible F1 from Netto's at 19p a packet have performed well as ever. So much so that I gave away a couple of spare packets to other allotment holders who's corn had also failed!

100% gemination.........Incredible....

[Alice]

Did the grubs look like this Jenegade.
http://woodypests.cas.psu.edu/Insect...evil_larva.jpg
If so it's Vine Weevil and you have to deal with the adult beattles.

What a shame as I think it will be too late here to start a new lot.

My Swift is doing fine, well I think it is. It's about 4' high and the tassles are coming out the top but there's no cobs appearing at the sides yet to get fertilised . I can't remember at what stage they usually appear so just hoping they will appear in time

My DH has just told me the supermarket is selling corn cobbs cut into slices and calling them coblets.

[Emmylou]

4' ??? mine are only 4" !! or are you taking the michael?

I've grown Swift this year, didn't all germinate and the plants aren't growing as fast as some baby cob plants either, they are romping away.

[Jenegade]

No that's not quite what they look like, they are smaller and are almost clear. Urgh, whatever they are they're not good! Looks like I'll only be having baby corn then, they are about 1 - 1.5 feet tall now, need to go out soon though.

That's strange that others having problems with just Swift too...

[King Carrot]

could be eelworms, get them myself - they're a right bugger to get rid of and I kind of just accept the fact I'll lose some stuff to them!

I start my sweetcorn off in kitchen roll tubes and plant once its big enough to not be troubled.

[realfood]

All my swift germinated and are now planted out. No problems, but I always sow them on top of the compost at 20 C to prevent the corn rotting.