do i need to plant 2 strans of corn for pollination or will one strain pollinate its own kind?
2007-03-16 03:49:39 · 8 answers · asked by myindigostar 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
No, but corn is wind pollinated so you are better to plant it in a circle or square rather than a row to improve the odds.
Corn plant has separate male and female flowering parts on the same plant. Pollen of a given plant rarely fertilizes the silks of the same plant. Under field conditions 97% or more of the kernels produced by each plant are pollinated by other plants in the field.
2007-03-16 03:53:16 · answer #1 · answered by Ron H 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no you do not. It might be a good idea to plant a 'block' of corn rather than one or two rows, so it can pollinate better. Planting 6 shorter rows is better than two longer rows, for pollination.
2007-03-16 03:59:53 · answer #2 · answered by andromeda 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it will pollinate...you do not need 2 different types...be sure to plant the corn in at least rows of 4...helps with pollination...after corn come up...go through with a garden hoe in your rows...and make a mini ditch 2 inches from the corn...put in some nitrogen along the mini ditch..cover it...and watch that stuff go to town...good luck..i put out vegi gardens for all of my family every year
2007-03-16 03:59:21 · answer #3 · answered by Michael K 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
you are able to seperate them by distance or you are able to seperate them by time. in the event that they are extra suitable than "XX" volume of days faraway from harvest from one yet another (many times 14 days from one yet another in tasseling), you are able to wisely improve out open pollinated corn with out them bypass pollinating. It appears like when you consider which you have an early style, you'll be waiting to seperate them by time. when you consider that wind is how corn is frequently pollinated, it extremely is complicated for the domicile gardener to seperate them by distance. in case you have a great plot of corn, you are able to cut back the tassels of the variety you do no longer might desire to shop seed from this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days to maintain it from pollinating the different, and the different style could be waiting to help pollinate the single you chop back the tassels on as long as you sow them close mutually, like various different row. i do no longer propose doing this, in basic terms that it extremely is attainable. ascertain you're saving an open pollinated style and not a hybrid because of the fact the hybrid many times does not come actual to style in the 2d technology. additionally in case you have popcorn, it is going to bypass into your sweetcorn and turn all of it to popcorn.
2016-10-02 05:33:41 · answer #4 · answered by megna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Each stalk of corn can pollinate itself. You don't NEED anything else.
2007-03-16 04:26:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nope .. self pollinating..
2007-03-16 03:52:41 · answer #6 · answered by gregory_usa83 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes corn is not bisexual(both male and female as in most most floering plants) so both strains are needed
2007-03-16 03:53:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
no
2007-03-16 03:52:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋