My corn already has something like tossles coming up from the top.... what is it and is it a good thing or a bad thing??????
2007-07-07 09:48:07 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
The tassels are a normal part of the growing corn plant. They are the flowers on top of the corn plants. They are important to the corn plants since they produce the pollen that falls on the silks that are extended from the ears of the developing corn, without the tassels, the corn kernels will not develop. Corn plants are air pollinated.
I am growing corn plants and been growing them for six years.
2007-07-07 10:13:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Completely normal. This is what is attached to the "silks" that are down underneath the husks. Assists in the pollenation of the corn. Also a good indicator of when the corn is getting ready to pick, when the tassels turn brown.
2007-07-07 15:30:07 · answer #2 · answered by angel_nurse82 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's the boy flowers. They sprinkle the pollen onto the girls which are the "hairs" sticking out of the location where the corn ears will develop.
sounds like all is normal.
2007-07-07 10:40:52 · answer #3 · answered by fluffernut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok ok, i'm commencing up to get the corn element now (i think of), yet how does one 'cringe in lust'? It sounds so sensually contradictory - till... And in basic terms what precisely is Bootsie doing in that photograph. huh?
2016-11-08 10:16:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a normal part of the plant and nothing to worry about.
2007-07-07 09:51:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋