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| What do you guys think the best sweet corn hybrids are. I give some away to customers every year and last year word was that my sweet corn was flavorless, and not very good in general. I guess I'm looking for a new supplier. I have gotten it from earl may and illinois foundation seeds. Any alternatives? What are your thoughts ? |
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Northeast, Iowa | I like Crookham out of Idaho. |
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new prague mn | peaches cream 7o day |
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West Central WI | Serendipity is hard to beat from olds. Its a bi-color and has extremely sweet large ears. |
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Central New York | I grow about 7.5 acres a years for my mother to sell at the road and have sorted threw the varieties and anything that a double sh is usually good. I buy from Seedway which is local for us but sells nationally they have a web site you can order from, they sell to small time up to commercial size. A few good ones to try IMHO are Sensor, Providence, Extra Tender, |
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SW IA | Try Rupp Sweet Corn...Some of the best I have ever eaten/grown |
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ND | IT's free they shouldn't complain |
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Eastern VA. No such thing as too many Magnums. | I like the IFS corn. We use 278 for Bicolor and 378 for white. I don't think they're that bad unless you let them get hot after you pull it. I usually get some out of the hydrocooler before I give it away. We had almost 700 acres last year and everyone who gets 278 bi color tells me they love it. Mirai is supposed to be good, but it's too delicate to ship, so we don't grow it. Devotion and Obsession just don't yield for us like 278 and 378. |
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New Ulm, MN | What evers in the cart im dumping into the truck! |
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Crawford, MS 39743 Uniontown OH 44685 | Funks G90 |
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High Springs, Florida | I like the 277 Bicolor and Honey Select, which is a yellow SE/SH2. As an experiment this fall I kept some 277 in the fridge for 2 weeks and it was still 10 times better than the crappy Silver Queen everyone seems to like around here.
Edited by Mike Shimek 1/12/2011 15:00
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| Thanks for your response! I got in touch with one of the above mentioned companies and will be getting my sweet corn from them this year. |
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| Honey Select with lots of Turkey manure and a good dose of Headline seems to be working quite well for us.
I've tried 372 and 378 white varieties and they just can't hold a candle to Honey Select according to my customer's preferences...(Rafe is going to call me out on this one...lol). I've also tried Vision Xtra tender...no dice.
I guess I'm the Henry Ford of roadside sweetcorn. You can have whatever ear you want as long as it's Honey Select....here.
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| Honey Select is a PITA to silk, but it is good. Incredible has been popular around here for several years. |
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middle eastern Ontario | temptation |
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| What's the problem with silking?
I've been through some of the toughest times in 2010 that I can recall and Honey Select did not let me down. I still don't know how we had anything to sell.
I probably should be telling everyone (the competition) Silver Queen is the ticket. LOL.
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| Is the roundup ready sweetcorn going to make it to market in enough supply that we might see a few bags. Last year they told me no supply maybe next year. I have drift problems from the neighbors and looking to maybe counteract some of that.
Brad
Edited by bmcpherson 1/12/2011 15:59
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| I personally hope RR sweet corn never makes it to market.
If it does, I hope they put it in the worst tasting genetics possible first so it sours all the customers on RR sweet corn.
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| Sorry, should've clarified. I didn't mean silking as in pollinating, I meant removing the silks when freezing corn. |
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Eastern VA. No such thing as too many Magnums. | Isn't honey select a SE? Or is it a Rogers triple sweet? I can't even sell SE varieties. They dont hold and some of them are too big to get in an 11x11 crate too. If I can't get 46-52 in a crate, it won't make grade and they'll kick it. If it's a triple sweet, it's probably just as good as the other Rogers corns. Garrison is popular just for it's uniformity and yield. You have to remember, yield, shelf life, and appearance are big factors with commercial corn. Most idiots are going to ask for "silver queen". Makes me laugh. I wish I had some of the turkey litter though. You have to go 150 miles to get any poultry litter around here. |
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Eastern VA. No such thing as too many Magnums. | I personally don't think the world needs any RR corn, sweet or grain. There are tons of good systems for control. But if you want something herbicide tolerant, just plant a bT sweet corn and use ignite on it. I like RR beans and cotton though.... |
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IL | My two favorites are Trinity and Honey Select.
Edited by Case IH farmer 1/12/2011 19:22
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west of springfield, Il | to make sweet corn sweeter make sure you have plenty of nitogen. The plant converts the N to sugars. Last year with the saturated soils there was less N for the plant. |
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| 378 is as good as there is ... plus it cans pretty well .. had some tonight from out of the basement |
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North Central Ohio, across the Corn belt ! | last1 - 1/12/2011 21:14 to make sweet corn sweeter make sure you have plenty of nitogen. The plant converts the N to sugars. Last year with the saturated soils there was less N for the plant. Lots of Sulfate is even better you will not need so much N either |
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| Yes, Honey Select is a triple sweet. My 100M bags have the Rogers logo.
It probably won't fit in the crates, Rafe. It does have some big ears. Makes customers feel like they are getting a bargain.
Here's a picture of ears for comparison -- left to right Hubner 5582, Hubner 5226, Honey Select, Honey select in the husk.
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| I would fear that RR sweet corn is going to kill your market - there would be a consumer backlash against RR sweet corn. The other side of that would be if you would intentionally not plant GMO sweet corn, and then market it as such. |
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