multiple-eared corn

I'm just curious as to what you were seeing on your screen and why and how it differed from what I saw on mine. However, I guess you did manage to eliminate your browser as the problem.

Shoe, I saw what you saw... and figured you'd help get it fixed.

Howdy, darius. Nice to see ya!
Yeh, I had an idea others would see it as well. Thanks for posting, it lets me know I still have my sanity! (or insanity, which is "funner"!?) *grin

snorkelpop, what happens with excessive characters in a line is it makes the thread screen exceptionally wide and causes people to have to scroll side to side to read each sentence. You may not have noticed it due to your screen settings or something.

Back to corn. Just curious, did you ever find out if Hastings Prolific makes full-sized ears? I've only read the few blurbs available online and none state the size of the ears.

You might also want to check your days to maturity on your seed pack. If it is a long season corn you may not be too far off track, just now getting tassels and and corn showing. What with all the stress/setbacks you've had would also add days.

Shoe- Hoping you see more corn appearing now that tassels are beginning to show

Horseshoe,

That's interesting, but I have been doing that for years. You might say that I do it routinely, and you're the first one to ever bring it up. Anyway, I'll remember it for this site, but I'll probably continue elsewhere with the lines until someone complains.

There won't be any corn for me this year. The answer should have been obvious to me: I just planted too late. If you disregard the rules, you have to suffer the consequences. That's what my nurseryman told me, and it makes sense. Wait'll next year. However, I'm not going to take the corn down now. It may not bear any corn, but it looks great. I'm going to keep it until it dies. I just want to see the entire cycle. By the way, the planting period for corn in my area is from April to the end of August. I thought I might slip through by planting in the middle of September, but it was not to be. I'll still post some pictures from time to time, though.

Talk about "Late Bloomers". I took a stalk-by-stalk inventory of my corn patch this morning, and things have surprisingly and unexpectedly changed. Today's ear/tassel count of the 24 plants is as follows: ears 15, tassels 13. That's definite progress, and I expect more because several of the plants are still in their plant adolescence. Nevertheless, these aren't the results I planted "Hastings Prolific" for. However, the plants are vigorous, healthy, and robust, so I know that my soil mix, plant nutrition, and irrigation are optimal and that the next corn crop I plant--at the proper time--will have a much better chance of producing the touted returns. This time around I don't believe I'll bother with hand pollination, since the patch is situated in such a way as to require ladders and scaffolding to do the job, but next time I'll make the necessary effort. One last thing, there were only two ears per plant, except for one that had three.

Final, final: I planted the corn on September the 15th, 19th, and 23rd.

Here's the way my corn patch looks today. No stalks with more than two ears, but a few 8-footers. That's a respectable height, in my book. Hopefully, my next planting--in season--will produce the multi-eared freaks that I bought Hasting Prolific for in the first place.