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Sweetcorn

PlashingPlashing Posts: 328
in Fruit & veg
Why hasn't the cobs on my sweetcorn developed properly they have plenty of corn on the bottom half but none at the top half,could it be a poll'nation issue.or the wet and cool weather we we have had at the wrong time,I would like your views,and if anybody else have had the same problem Regards Peter

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  • granmagranma Posts: 1,933
    I have had the same problem for last 2 years. Though this does not deter the taste. I thought it was because I grow too close together.though last year we got the rain ,too much at the wrong time. So I suppose it could all be down to the weather.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I suspect it may be more to do with having a heatwave when the female parts are being pollinated earlier in summer.   It happened to us 2 years in a row here - too hot and dry - so I didn't bother planting any this year and it's just as well.  July was record heat and drought here.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ForkinAllotmentForkinAllotment Posts: 37
    Maybe poor pollination do you plant them in rows or in blocks
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Blocks.  It's an irrigation problem here.  Drought and water restrictions.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • ForkinAllotmentForkinAllotment Posts: 37
    Ah I see I'm in the UK so water is not so much of an issue here lol
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited October 2019
    I’m in East Anglia in free draining loam ... I find we have to water our sweet corn generously as the cobs are swelling. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    The first lot I planted out at the beginning of June are like that. Generally poor pollination. The second batch planted out at the end of June have much better cobs. I suspect it is weather related. In dry years they do need a lot of water. This year I haven't watered at all except for watering in on planting.
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