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Trying corn for the first time this year! I'm pretty hyped (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by vladmech to c/gardening
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[–] AnalogyAddict 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

With that little bit of corn, you're probably going to want to hand pollinate. They recommend at least 4 rows about 15 inches apart. Corn is wind pollinated, so it needs a sizable plot and open exposure to get good harvest without help.

[–] ThrowawaySobriquet 6 points 8 months ago

Seconding this. First time I did corn, I was disappointed at how weird and shriveled every ear came out. Like, some of them had good, edible spots, bit the rest looked diseased and I thought for sure it was some kind of fungus or pest. Nope. Just didn't get fully pollinated.

Some good examples of what can go wrong and why

[–] vladmech 3 points 8 months ago

I’m going to set up a second 4’x4’ next to this one and that hopefully helps, but yeah sounds like I’ll need to help my plants make out