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24 Jan 13, ben black (Australia - tropical climate)

i have recently planted my crop of sweet corn here in bundaberg it was planted about 6 weeks ago and already stand about 7 to 8 feat tall and have 3 to 4 cobs per plant i dont know why but they do would like to know why

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17 Aug 13, Ferran (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

my sweet corn last year had a mixture of 1-3 cobs per plant. its normal having more than 1 cob per plant but i found that they did not produce as much as one cob per plant and snaped of the smaller ones so as to get a better havest. I found that it had to do with how close they were together. my veriety worked best with 16 stalks per meatre square. bit late and i hope your havest went well. As for the reason, just like when you grow pumpcin you can have several friuts on a vine or one the plant puts its energy equally in to however many friuts there are. when there is only one it gets much bigger than when there are multipual pumpcins however you get more pumpcins if you let them grow multipual ones per vine. some verietys just natraly have more or less friuts per vine and you as the gardener get to chose how many the plant grows or how big they can get.

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15 Jan 13, Patrick (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

What should be done with laterals on the main stalk? Will I leave them on to allow additional corn to grow on them or does leaving them on the main stalk deprive the main stalk from food?

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06 Jan 13, (Australia - temperate climate)

How do tell corn is ready to pick

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10 Jan 13, Chris (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

It's usually ready when the tassles/threads are drying up or black/brown. You can peel back the leaves around the top of the cob before picking to check if it is ripe and fold them back to keep growing if it isn't ready.

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05 Jan 13, Hilda (Australia - arid climate)

how many cobs of corn can you expect to harvest from each plant

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10 Jan 13, Chris (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

It depends on the variety. Most seem to produce two or three, but I've seen some varieties with four or five.

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31 Dec 12, lawrence (Australia - sub-tropical climate)

once the corn has been picked do you cut off the stalks and it regrows or do you pill it out and plant again

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31 Dec 12, Chris (Australia - cool/mountain climate)

Corn doesn't regrow. I cut it off low leaving the roots to rot, and plant some beans around the stumps to boost the soil fertility.

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29 Dec 12, Kerry Hann (Australia - temperate climate)

Our corn has looked lovely but now something funny is going on some of the corn have lost the silk tops and the leaf around the cob has split open and come dwn a little showing some of the corn. also right on the top of the plants the tassles I gather a small cob has formed on a couple?? any ideas whats going on this doesnt sound normal.

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