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| last spring I sent a bunch of my students an email inquiring if anyone was interested in growing me some ornamental purple corn.
One student volunteered and I gave him a bag of 2000 seeds of "Indian Art Cranberry" corn from Rupps.
The student ended up giving the seed to the VoAg instructor at his highschool and the seed got planted on 40" rows with an antique planter. It seems that there may have been no weed control at all because the field was filled with huge 6 foot+ buttonweed/velvetleaf and other weeds when they harvested by hand this past weekend... somehow despite all the weeds, the yield was quite impressive.
As shown in the first photo which follows, most ears filled out all the way to the tip and had essentially no insect damage. This ear has 16 rows with > 40 kernels.
The coloration is beautiful but not exactly what I was expecting... the second photo shows what the corn is supposed to look like.
did any of you plant some Cranberry corn?
Joel
WIU Agriculture
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Cranberry corn (pics)
