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Maybe I can make it to 19.51 inches?Ben Gorski wrote:If you save the seeds next year maybe you can plant them 19" deep....actually only my seeds can be planted 19.52" deep...sorry!
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!!Nicely done and the next generation will do better i assume. maybe add some bean, squash and bee balm as weell.
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Artie Scott wrote:Hi Lauren,
What would be the advantage of planting so deep? I suppose it might avoid the need for hilling? Seems like a lot more work digging the hole.
I could also imagine more moisture that deep, but do the roots go that deep anyway?
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Lauren Ritz wrote:A year or so ago I watched a documentary on Hopi Indian planting practices, in which the narrator was talking about planting corn 12 to 18 inches deep and stated that "No other corn in the world will do this." He put me in immediate rebellion mode and I decided to prove him wrong. :)
This spring I planted some random sweet corn about 8 inches deep... I planted the corn where I didn't intend to water, in an area with pretty much straight sand.
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Travis Johnson wrote:But there it could also be the variety of corn too. For instance, it is so damp here, that we cannot grow the same type of wheat that they grow in the mid-west. The wheat grown here is a heritage variety that can take the moisture. So region is huge on what is grown in terms of variety.
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Lauren Ritz wrote:
Travis Johnson wrote:But there it could also be the variety of corn too. For instance, it is so damp here, that we cannot grow the same type of wheat that they grow in the mid-west. The wheat grown here is a heritage variety that can take the moisture. So region is huge on what is grown in terms of variety.
Yes. I had two varieties of sweet corn, so I just used a mix. I don't really have enough room to breed my own variety of corn, but I want to do that eventually. We've been keeping seeds forever.
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Marco Banks wrote:So too deep or too shallow will dramatically effect yield. I've seen videos that show the difference that even a quarter of an inch can effect yield. Crazy, huh.
As you conclude your test, please measure (weigh?) the harvest from the plants. How is the yield on those plants that were planted much deeper? Which plants yielded the most corn at the end of the season? I'd love to see pictures of the size of the ears grown by the various plants that were sewn at various depths.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
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Bryant RedHawk wrote:Did you follow the hopi methods for deep planting (plant a fish or piece of a carcass to act as fertilizer for the corn?) I have found that deep planting of corn works quite well when I follow the "plant the fish, then plant the corn above it" instructions of the elders.
I've never tried deep planting without following that rule of planting corn, I am interested in how your field trial turns out.
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Travis Johnson wrote:I feel I owe you an apology for being semi-critical of what you were doing, and not fully understanding the reasons behind it.
Travis Johnson wrote:BUT, as I thought about your situation this afternoon, and how interesting it is, I think it would be worth seeing if you could get a SARE Grant to do more research on this. IT COULD have major implications on farming corn where you live. A SARE Grant may get you the extra funding you need to get a really good study done on this. Just a thought of mine, in case you never considered it?
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Lauren Ritz wrote:
Travis Johnson wrote:I feel I owe you an apology for being semi-critical of what you were doing, and not fully understanding the reasons behind it.
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Bryant RedHawk wrote:Great field trial Lauren.
Did you follow the hopi methods for deep planting (plant a fish or piece of a carcass to act as fertilizer for the corn?) I have found that deep planting of corn works quite well when I follow the "plant the fish, then plant the corn above it" instructions of the elders.
I've never tried deep planting without following that rule of planting corn, I am interested in how your field trial turns out.
I'm trying to gather as many of the native species of corn as I can for a field trial of all the different Native American Corn Species (blues, blacks, reds and multicolored) mostly because I just want to see how each performs on my farm.
Most of the Corns I want to try are flint corns but there is a blue and a red dent corn that I also hope to give a trial too.
Thanks for this post and please keep us up to date on your results.
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