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NW IA | My father in law in California is trying to grow tall corn from seed he got from a Iowa magazine. He is asking for advice. He has put cow manure and nitrogen on it. Anybody have any experience with growing the tallest corn stalk?
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North Central Ohio, across the Corn belt ! | a good and consistent watering program
and Good Luck to him |
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East Central Indiana | Try to find the right seed, if it was bred to be short in stature it will most likely be short in stature, just because the seed came from Iowa won't gurantee it to be tall. |
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| Get some tropical corn seed....well maybe for next year.
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New Ulm, MN | Tropical Silage Corn! |
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Eastern Iowa | That magazine corn came from Brazil. The winner of the magazine contest last year started the corn in a green house in late February and used extra light, water, and nutrients trickled on in order to get a stalk 19 feet tall. |
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Faunsdale, AL | Our later plantings tend to get taller (as long as the growing conditions are still good). Tallest we ever had was a tropical hybrid, Pioneer X304C. Ears were about 6' off the ground on about 10-12' stalks.
Thunderstorm took a lot of it down flat before we got it chopped. Only way to get it up was to deadhead back to the other end of the field and come at it against the way it was laying down. That got kind of old, but we got it done eventually. |
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Center of IL | Find an open top concrete silo with cracks in the floor, enough so you can reach the soil. Plant the corn and it will grow higher than normal, trying to reach the sun. At least, thats what the "cheaters" at the fair tell me. I'm a retired expert in hay.
Edited by Beef Cen IL 7/27/2011 14:12
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NW IA | The seed was for the tall corn contest and was the kind to grow tall. |
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| I believe he was carrying a sonic cup of water to his prize corn plant each day. |
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Texas/New Mexico Stateline | ccjersey - 7/27/2011 13:01
Our later plantings tend to get taller (as long as the growing conditions are still good). Tallest we ever had was a tropical hybrid, Pioneer X304C. Ears were about 6' off the ground on about 10-12' stalks.
Same here. Not unusual to get 12' corn. I have seen a lot of corn where I could look right at the ear in front of my face. I'm almost 6'. There won't be any of that this year! TOO HOT and DRY. |
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| as was posted about growing a plant inside a silo. we have had a lot of creek botom ground that was right up againste a bluff with tall trees on top of it. the bluff ran along the south side of the fields. we had regular brand of corn tassle reach all of 18 to 23 feet tall trying to reach sun that was not shaded out by trees. the ears were as much as 7 to 8 feet off the ground. but the stalks sur were skinnie.
i would try growing it in the a well shaded area for highth. but the stalk may be very skinnie. maybe if you poure the miracel grow to it and regular water. good luck.
fyi-tall corn doesnt mean good corn. id rather have large ear short corn instead of tall lankie corn that will get wind shook and flattened by a strong breese. flatened corn sukks. |
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nw NC | I bought a bag of Shumway Seed Co. " Goliath" silo filler corn to try 15-20 years ago. . It is an open pollinated variety of white corn that grew very tall, 16 feet with some at 18 feet. When chopped for silage , after some wind, most of it was 4 feet tall and 12 feet long. Also planted Pioneer X304 tropical which grew 16 feet or more. Another Pioneer tropical improved on grain yield and stalk strength over the X304. I'm thinking it was 3038, a 135 day RM corn. Big diameter stalk grew 15 -16 feet planted late June. yielded 30.5 tons /acre in 36 inch rows at 20,000 pop. Pioneer no longer has any tropical corn. NK has a corn that has some tropical genetic characteristics in it , grows 13-14 feet and has a hard ,flinty type yellow kernel on a white cob. Picture of it below.
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Near-north Ontario, French River | Is that corn really 18ft tall or did you just marry a 'little person" lol... Tallest corn I've ever seen , you couldn't see our L2 Gleaner going through the field. Driver couldn't see the end of the rows until he popped out on the end !! |
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| maybe talk to this guy or try his product http://www.originalsonicbloom.com/published/creationillustrated2003... |
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Roanoke, IN | What kind of N? If you want growth you should use the nitrate form, not ammonia. Example calcium nitrate, potassium nitrate, etc. |
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nw NC | Corn in the pictures was tape measured at 13-14 feet. And yes, she is " vertically challenged" at 5'0" . LOL !! |
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Texas | Use lots of "Soy Soap" on yer corn. I have a two year old supply at a steeply discounted price if you want some. It's supposed to work wonders on everything you can plant.
I highly reccomend you buy mine and give it a try. There is only one stipulation to being able to purchase from me. I get to deliver in a very dark parking lot deep in the inner city while wearing a ski mask! |
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ECIL | Grow it next to a tall support such as a flagpole so it can be tied to the pole for support. Feed it some N on a regular basis. Try to position it so it reaches for sunlight. The corn will need plenty of room for the root system so any type of compaction needs to be eliminated. |
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PROSPECT, TENNESSEE | What kind of contest compares the corn's stalk? The ear is what makes the money. The bigger the ear and shorter the stalk the better I like it. I have been scouting fields for our entry in the fair this year, found some nice ones but it took a lot of looking. |
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Trying to grow tall corn for the fair
