Corn seed

37 chief · Nov 12, 2009

I planted some Silver queen corn this year. I bought the seed from one of the catalog seed companies. There is still come cob's with corn on them. If I keep some of the seed will it be ok to plant next year. Or is the seed companies corn seed some kind of hybrid seed? Stan

Ralph wd45 · Nov 12, 2009

Why don't you put some kernels on a wet paper towell, in the warm house, and see if they germinate?

da-bees · Nov 12, 2009

If you are asking if you should plant seed from your crop,probly not. Most corn is hybrid and will not come back true. You can ask the supplier if it is hybrid or just check the package. If it was not hybrid seed it will come back true year after year unless another varity is grown within 30 or 40 feet in which case the crop will produce a few hybrid kernels on a few ears. If you are asking if you can plant year old seed,most definitly. Your #1 consurn is insects eating into kernels.

gene bender · Nov 12, 2009

not if you expect to harvest a crop. It will grow but the ears wont be muct. You need to plant certified seed if you want a crop.

Andy C · Nov 12, 2009

I just looked it up. Silver Queen IS a hybrid. The seeds will not produce the same variety.
Andy

Gene Dotson · Nov 12, 2009

I tried this about 3 years ago and from 3, 20' rows I only had about 8 plants grow and none of them had decent ears, so from my experience, I would say no to using the seed from grown crop.
A $3.00 investment for a 1/4 pound of seed is good insurance... Gene

Anonymous-0 · Nov 12, 2009

will you please give me the name and address of the seed company or their 800 number?

ChrisinMO · Nov 12, 2009

Even if it is open pollinated, corn is tough to save seed from. If you don't save seed from enough plants and if those plants were not well pollinated with the pollen of many different plants in the stand of corn, the corn will genetically go into a funk and not produce. You need to save seed from at least 50 individual plants, more than that being much better. It might work for the first generation of seeds, but I really don't know. Any sweet corn we don't get to goes to the hogs or we'll graze the sheep through the corn plot to clean up.

Christopher

ChrisinMO · Nov 12, 2009

ChrisB · Nov 12, 2009

(quoted from post at 19:19:29 11/12/09) will you please give me the name and address of the seed company or their 800 number?

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kyplowboy · Nov 13, 2009

I have had some sweet corn come up volunteer befor. Nove of it ever made much of an ear but cattle loved to graze it. Have no idea what the germ rate was but it always comes back pretty thin in the garden after I disk it in the fall.

Dave

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