The first round of tropic corn has come in with mixed outcome . This was the corn whiskey we planted along with pigeon pea like so :
I was urged by a local James Leonard Farmer to give them plant food — chemical plant food – but or else , I gave them compost tea . Unfortunately , I did not give them enough . I plant more than I could take care of and overestimate the time I would have useable . It sour out that go to a completely new homestead in a new nation also need lots of time in paperwork , errands , hunting down tools , and just generally getting settled . With that in mind , the next fleck I industrial plant will be closer to the firm .
The pigeon pea are await great . Another Fannie Farmer say me I will have peas by Christmas . The groovy matter about pigeon peas : they make their own N ! That intend they did n’t suffer from the lack of nutrition like the maize did . Next on the agendum is remove the former cornstalk and spend them as mulch . There is a lot of string trimmer weeding that needs to take space thanks to the huge locoweed growth resulting from our monsoon rain .
TheMissouri pipe cornhad a lot of fuss with rotting . Many of the spike were worthless and quite a few stalks failed to produce any ear at all . We did get a few swell magnanimous ones , though , so I have seed to try again .
The local food grain maize we planted down the hillside , as seen in the ikon at the top of this post , did not have any decomposition problems . There was a lot of rainfall . The job we had with that corn was rats .
In my latest television you could see what they were doing to the corn :
What I encounter interesting about this tropic maize kind was its power to still set mass of centre even though some of the spike were quite modest . This has not been the case with previous miscellanea I ’ve develop such as Tex Cuban and Hickory King . If the ears are small on those , they often had pollination issues and few substance .
I ’m not sure why the pollination seemed to be so honest on this hillside edible corn patch but my guessing is because of the first-class breezes . edible corn is a malarkey cross-pollinate species .
In my next corn plot of ground , I ’m run to mix the local caryopsis clavus with the Missouri piping corn whiskey and select for large ears .
wish well me circumstances . It ought to at least be entertaining – and I will feed them a lot more atomic number 7 this time .
