Can I grow my own sweet corn if corn is growing in the field?
Hello 🙂 I have a question: I want to grow my own corn this year and have already started some corn. I just found out that the farmer is planting corn this year. My garden is right on the edge of the field, and now I'm wondering if I can even grow my own corn. Corn is wind-pollinated, so will my corn become silage corn from the field, or can I just not use the corn kernels as seed later, but the corn will still be the sweetcorn I planted it as?
Thank you very much for your reply. Best regards, Sarah-Marie
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You can grow the sugar maize and it will remain sugar maize. Only the grains of the flask cannot be used again as (sugar maize) seed. However, this is the case with (almost) all maize varieties as they are grown as hybrid varieties, as described by Bruno2308.
If maize seed is produced from the father and the mother line, the polluting tip is cut off at the mother line, thereby ensuring that only pollen of the father plants planted in the vicinity dust the sticky threads on the pistons of the mother plants. The resulting seed has 50% of the respective genetics. In the case of your sugar maize, the crucifixion product would only appear on a seed again, and it will remain sugar maize. I think you’re right, but you can inquire otherwise.
Thank you for the detailed answer 😊
Sure.
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Genuine mutated maize is not available in Germany.
Except for trials