This year I have about the best looking stand of sweet corn I have ever had. Most of the stalks have two ears and I don't have very much weeds. I don't spray any herbicides or pesticides. None. I did cultivate every three days with my two row setup on my Oliver. (See its tractor related.) My issue seems to be its not very sweet. In the past I grew Peaches and Cream but the last three it has not done so well. I asked the Amish guy (which has a small store) what he sells the most of. It was a variety called Incredible. I look at this on line and everything I see pictures of is showing yellow kernels. Mine has white kernels and its not very sweet. It seems to me that some one must have put the wrong seed in my order.....ugh. Since I bought bulk seed this could have happened. This plot looks so nice but is so disappointing. Maybe it will get sweeter with some more time? Maybe?
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rick deere
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try G-90 a lot bigger ears and very sweet you wont ever plant peaches and cream again we even eat not cooked.
This year the sweet corn around here grew so fast it is not as sweet as normal. That is kind of a common thing. Slower growth will result in sweeter tasting corn. I do not know why but it does.
I will second that you do not have the corn you ordered. Peaches & Cream will be a mixed colored kernelled corn.
I will second that you do not have the corn you ordered. Peaches & Cream will be a mixed colored kernelled corn.
rustyfarmall
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If indeed you did plant Incredible, and the kernals are white, it is NOT yet ready to harvest. Wait until it is YELLOW. Incredible is what we have grown for the lasst 3 years now. Boil those ears for 10 minutes and enjoy. NO butter, salt, or pepper is required.
I think it's the weather that makes it or doesn't make it. I know I have had the same thing over the years.
2014 was my best year. We put a bunch of it in the freezer that year and it came out tasting just like it did off the ears.
This is not peaches and cream, this is what ever the wife brought home from the farm store to plant. I like my yellow corn the best.
2014 was my best year. We put a bunch of it in the freezer that year and it came out tasting just like it did off the ears.
This is not peaches and cream, this is what ever the wife brought home from the farm store to plant. I like my yellow corn the best.
Crazy Horse
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From an article on Sweet Corn after a GOOGLE search .....
How do farmers know when sweet corn is ready to harvest? Sweet corn should be harvested at the milk stage. As the name implies, the kernels are full of a
milky-looking juice when ready to pick. To test, growers will pierce the soft kernels with their thumbnail to look for the milk, or even bite into a raw ear
to test for sweetness. Immature corn will ooze a clear liquid, while over-mature sweet corn kernels are tough and almost doughy inside.
There are also visual cues that you can use at the store without pulling back the husks. Ready-to-eat ears are plump. The silks at the end are brown and
starting to dry, but the husks are still bright green and supple. Skinny ears with extra pointy ends and white silks are immature. These are signs that
pollination just occurred and the kernels inside are not fully formed. Also avoid buying ears with completely dry silks and husks that are pale green,
brownish, dry-looking. This indicates over-mature or not freshly picked corn.
Can you pick field corn early and eat it like sweet corn? You can eat it, but it won?t taste nearly as good. Field corn also goes through a milk stage like
sweet corn. As mentioned earlier, field corn has a much higher starch. This makes the kernels considerably less sweet and much tougher, even when harvested
during the milk stage.
How do farmers know when sweet corn is ready to harvest? Sweet corn should be harvested at the milk stage. As the name implies, the kernels are full of a
milky-looking juice when ready to pick. To test, growers will pierce the soft kernels with their thumbnail to look for the milk, or even bite into a raw ear
to test for sweetness. Immature corn will ooze a clear liquid, while over-mature sweet corn kernels are tough and almost doughy inside.
There are also visual cues that you can use at the store without pulling back the husks. Ready-to-eat ears are plump. The silks at the end are brown and
starting to dry, but the husks are still bright green and supple. Skinny ears with extra pointy ends and white silks are immature. These are signs that
pollination just occurred and the kernels inside are not fully formed. Also avoid buying ears with completely dry silks and husks that are pale green,
brownish, dry-looking. This indicates over-mature or not freshly picked corn.
Can you pick field corn early and eat it like sweet corn? You can eat it, but it won?t taste nearly as good. Field corn also goes through a milk stage like
sweet corn. As mentioned earlier, field corn has a much higher starch. This makes the kernels considerably less sweet and much tougher, even when harvested
during the milk stage.
Bruce from Can.
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- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
We always planted ? Incredible ? , back during the
time we had market garden. ? Incredible ? falls into
the category of being a ? super sweet ? variety, and
taste great. The thing that sets the so called ?super
sweet? varieties apart from the old standbys like ?
Peaches and Cream? is that it takes much longer for
the sugars in the corn to turn to starch after the corn
has been picked, at least that is how it was
explained to me by the corn seed salesman. I would
never eat corn picked yesterday, today , until we
started to grow the ? Incredible ? varieties.
time we had market garden. ? Incredible ? falls into
the category of being a ? super sweet ? variety, and
taste great. The thing that sets the so called ?super
sweet? varieties apart from the old standbys like ?
Peaches and Cream? is that it takes much longer for
the sugars in the corn to turn to starch after the corn
has been picked, at least that is how it was
explained to me by the corn seed salesman. I would
never eat corn picked yesterday, today , until we
started to grow the ? Incredible ? varieties.
rustyfarmall
Well-known Member
Go to the garden, pick the corn, shuck it right there, bring it in and boil it. Supper is just about 30 minutes after the corn has been picked.
Butch(OH)
Well-known Member
We have been planting Bodacious for several years now and it has been very consistent as for sweetness and it seems to stay sweeter as it goes past prime. We are picking the second planting tomorrow and freezing, just in case anyone would like to stop by and help, LOL.
Traditional Farmer
Well-known Member
- Location
- Virginia
Maybe too wet,putting on lots of N and not having your soil fully mineralized.You get back what you put in the soil.
Tony in Bama
Member
We have bought quite a bit of Incredible from the Mennonites in South Central Tennessee over the last few weeks, and it has been outstanding. There's another variety they're touting called "Awesome", and it's also pretty good...
We raise Incredible. Granddaughter sells it and customers love it. No difference in taste this year. Incredible should not be white when ready. Sounds like you have a soil issue or different seeds. BTW - Wrap up to 4 ears of sweet corn in a wet paper towel and place in the microwave for 4+/- minutes (depending on the mw) and it is some good stuff.
Traditional Farmer
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- Location
- Virginia
Also watermelons we've been buying the last couple years are lacking in flavor,guess I need to go back to growing them too.
We have grown Bodacious and Ambrosia. They are both sugar extender high breds. It does stay sweet on the stock up to 14 days. I've eaten it at 2 weeks old and it still tasted good. They also freeze well too. We found that it freezes better after it gets older. Really taste good in the middle of the winter.
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