This morning my beds look so messy.
A big green amaranth is fallen, uprooted.
Worse... my sweet corn patch.
Almost of the corn plants were uprooted.
Finally I pulled up all of the plants.
Wow... I found something strange.
I got a quadruplets corncob.
This was the first time I see that.
Usually I find one or two corncobs on a leaf midrib, but I found four...
Actually the corncobs weren't growing optimally.
The seeds weren't fully formed.
Although they didn't give me sweet seeds, but they gave me something new that I haven't know before.
Always there's a worthwhile in any disaster.
How about you....
The most that we have had is two. Do you think they didn't fully mature because the plant hadn't the energy to grow the four cobs?
ReplyDeleteYes, I usually find one or two cob from different leaf midrib on a plant. But I found total five cobs, a cob at lower midrib and four cobs at the upper midrib. I think this plant fully mature, there was no energy anymore to grow the five cobs. The other plants were ready to be harvested, but this one still stuck on thin cobs.
DeleteI tried to grow corn summer before last, and it didn't do well. I had quite a few ears, but it didn't get that big and the corn tasted kind of mealy.
ReplyDeleteI think this season is not good enough for us on growing corns. My corns look so stunning on their early growth, but when they were starting their flowering stage their performance began to decline. I just got small cobs, not big enough. I hope next season we have better weather.
DeleteSuch a shame about your corn, there's usually some casualties of the weather each year. I haven't seen four cobs growing like that before, always something new to see where gardening is concerned.
ReplyDeleteActually, I hope the quadruplet will grow to the maturity stage. But the weather was not friendly. So I missed the chance to see new wonders.
DeleteVery interesting! I don't usually grow corn, but plants of all kinds can be so surprising!
ReplyDeleteI only plant corn at the late of rainy season or during the dry season. Because I always got some trouble on growing corn at rainy season. Yeah, I have never find quadruplet cob before.
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