Sunday, July 24, 2016
maize and corn
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- fred
- an ex- industrial worker ( the continued automation of jobs, condensing of ownership, plant closings, trade wars, and degradation of living standards here has rendered me a former industrial worker...now just part-time lumpen proletariat) and university student (everyone needs a hobby...my hobbies have evolved and, to keep things straight, i have left my formal student career behind for reasons that are too detailed to delve into here...continuing to be a student of life however and not adverse to learning...stasis is death ) sliding down the back side of middle age...a social loner with collectivist leanings...explain that.
Engineering corn to grow close together is still well beyond the state of the art. It would go much faster with traditional breeding, at least for now.
ReplyDeleteIt would be mighty peculiar if your corn didn't bear a strong family resemblance to the industrial corn.
if indeed this corn is not engineered to grow more closely together the field is seriously over planted. two to four inches between plants is the norm with some right next to one another. hardly seems like a recipe for good production and i will be looking for ( and probably not finding many ) multiple ears.
ReplyDeletesince they are different varieties from the same family it would be odd if there weren't a strong family resembalnce. there are differences however. among others the Bear Paw Maize is developing multiple ears ( two or three on each plant ), it isn't nearly as tall as the industrial corn, and it does not grow as quickly. Different as they are alike.