Corn... how big is yours?

[bethduckie]

My corn, planted several weeks ago, doesn't seem to be making headway. It's about 20 cm high (the best ones) if you stretch it out, and correspondingly thin and feeble looking but it isn't wilted, or yellow or anything. Just small. Will it perk up, do you think, when the weather heats up a bit?

My other corn, at the allotment, is forging ahead. Not like some of the piccies on here, but it defo looks like it's growing and making progress, but this lot has stalled.

any tips?

[dave_norm_smith]

Hi
Sounds similar to my own. Once the weather pics up I'm sure it will shoot up, it does seem to grow all of a sudden. Its still taller than the stuff the farmers are growing around Harrogate where I work!

[Germinater]

I think it's just the weather .no real sunshine to speak of for the last month just rain once we get a bit sun for a while they should shoot up..

[zazen999]

Ditto. The sunflowers that germinated in the compost mulch that I put in around my sweetcorn are now taller than they are. But I'm sure they will perk up and shoot up in a few weeks.

[mothhawk]

Mine are about a foot high in the garden. Annoyingly, in the field up the road, the sweetcorn already looks like a small forest. It is being grown with a perforated polythene covering on the soil, that the seedlings find their way through as they start to grow. I think I'll try a polythene mulch next time, sweetcorn obviously likes its feet warm.

[Thelma Sanders]

I know I'm in the SE corner!....mine are about 2ft high and the tassels are just beginning to show at the top the silks need to hurry up now (please) but I did sow 3 plants 2 weeks later to help with pollination.
Fingers crossed the plan works

[poohpouri]

sorry to go of topic sort of,i am growing swift f1 sweetcorn there are little side shoots coming up from base of main stem is this okay or do i need to cut them off?

[Jelliebabe]

HA My corn is about 2-3 inches tall - Late MOI! Surely not!

[kingkano]

Perhaps I shouldnt say! But mine is 5ft high and the cobs now forming in the leaf axils. I did get them out incredibly early though with the lovely sunny weather in April under a mini tunnel cloche Think I'll be eating corn in July this year! lol

[kingkano]

Poohpouri - This is fine - leave them as is

[Snadger]

sorry to go of topic sort of,i am growing swift f1 sweetcorn there are little side shoots coming up from base of main stem is this okay or do i need to cut them off?

The little shoots are your crop..........so don't cut them off for goodness sake. The centre spike is the male portion of the plant and drops pollen onto these side shoots which grow and form your corn 'cobs'

[diggerthree]

Don't be disheartened by agricultural crops, they want volume foliage/stalk for cattle feed ,not a quality cob.
They use artificial fertilizer with N32 or more! (I'm tempted to filch a supply and try it on the runner beans, any thoughts?

[Zenithtb]

Both my sweetcorn and sunflowers are between 8 - 10 feet tall :-( Sorry.

[mothhawk]

Both my sweetcorn and sunflowers are between 8 - 10 feet tall :-( Sorry.

How tall??!!



I think that deserves:

[Helgalush]

Mine are only 15cm tall!! (But they are baby sweetcorn so I hope thats ok?)