Corn For Popcorn?

[broadway]

Hi Folks,

I wanted to try growing some corn next year to make popcorn for the kids, does anyone have any tips, advice, etc?

Cheers
Danny

[chriscross1966]

THe types that generally make good popcorn are the old-style indian flint maize ones.... unfortuinately we're talking big plants (my Blue Hopi are 7ft tall this year) and fairly late seasons (they're only just setting cobs now, I expect to be eating my sweetcorn soon and it hasn't been a great summer for them....... Probably good to get them going in big pots in the greenhouse a month or so before modern sweetcorns like swift adn earlibird, they seem to go through a lot of water too.... finally keep them well away from your F1 sweetcorn, cross-pollination will be bad for the sweetcorn....

chrisc