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Re: Why detassel corn?? Please tell me
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Posted by JMS/MN on July 31, 2005 at 16:32:35 from (204.73.106.15):
In Reply to: Why detassel corn?? Please tell me posted by newtoit on July 31, 2005 at 15:22:03:
Hybrid corn has two parents. It is a cross between the two. In seed fields, the two parents are planted, and one is detassled, so the other can fertilize the one which is detassled. You might see 4-6 rows detassled, next to 2 that are left. The fertilized rows yield very little- 20-50 bpa, but that is the hybrid seed that we plant the next year, which yields much more. Perfect example of hybrid vigor.
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