Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Maize with very few kernels

Options
  • 04-10-2017 10:31am
    #1
    ABlackwell
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭


    Hello.

    can anyone please explain why the maize plants we reared have very few kernels on their cobs? I have never seen anything like this before.
    Thank you

    I am a new user so I cannot post a picture.
    Tagged:


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    How did you plant them? They are one of the few crops where they are recommended to be planted in a block rather than a row so the plants pollinate better.


  • Options
    #3
    ABlackwell
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭ABlackwell


    Six rows of six plants. 3 each of sweet corn and indian corn. These happened to be the only ones that germinated (in the greenhouyse) for us this spring prior to planting out.


  • Options
    #4
    Zzippy
    Registered Users Posts: 14,166 ✭✭✭✭Zzippy


    Sounds like poor pollination. Did you shake the plants to spread the pollen? We grew them for the first time this year and made sure to shake the plants when the flowers at the top were shedding pollen, and used sheets of cardboard to waft air around while doing so to make sure the pollen wafted around and didn't just fall straight down. Worked 100% for us, very few cobs with missing kernels. The pollen needs to get onto the silks on the ears in order to get plenty of kernels in the cob.


  • Options
    #5
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Fertilizer/ dung etc.?


Advertisement