Corn

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Permalink Reply by Clarence on June 21, 2009 at 6:42am

YES!

You can gently stand them back up right and mound soil around them to keep them upright again or do nothing and they will straighten up themselves. ( I normally straighten mine as it kind of bugs me to see them laying down)

Some years ago I read a corn planting method where you start your corn in trenches and fill the trenches in as the plants grow. The purpose was to give the corn a deeper root to help it stand up to the wind a little better.

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Permalink Reply by TAR HEEL on June 21, 2009 at 7:43am

sometimes yes. sometimes no. you can usually ''fix'' 'em. hail is another story. good-luck.

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Permalink Reply by TAR HEEL on June 24, 2009 at 7:14am

....get the stalk straight.add more soil at base.pack it down a little. then move on. simple.

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Permalink Reply by Cielce on June 24, 2009 at 10:15am

I don't grow corn but I've had interesting experiences with it being blown over in my teen years. One of my summer jobs growing up was to de-tassel seed corn, and blown over fields of corn were the hardest to walk up and down the rows in, and very easy to get lost in!

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Permalink Reply by TAR HEEL on June 24, 2009 at 2:46pm

...and dont forget the neat little cuts on your arms or legs,Cielce. I remember.

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Permalink Reply by Marian Worley on June 24, 2009 at 8:04pm

Ok, so great inof here. Now, another question. Is it normal to have ants on the corn stalks?

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Permalink Reply by Chris Bocchino on June 24, 2009 at 9:08pm

Mine went down about 3 times this year until i supported the entire bit. Second crop is going ot be planted a bit farther apart to see if that helps with strengthening the root systems to prevent this problem..

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Permalink Reply by TAR HEEL on June 25, 2009 at 5:39am

.....ants? look around the groups/forums Marian, there must be 101 tips about the ""DREADED ANTS''. I say let em be.

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Permalink Reply by Marian Worley on June 25, 2009 at 8:20am

Will do

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Permalink Reply by Clarence on June 25, 2009 at 7:04pm

Marian,

Ants by themselves are not a problem on corn unless the ants are tending aphids. Aphids, besides causing damage by sucking plant juices, can spread various virus and such. I would be looking for what the ants are doing (they are either hunting for or getting something to eat), eliminate the food and the ants will be busy somewhere else.

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Permalink Reply by Marian Worley on June 29, 2009 at 12:38pm

The ants are crawling into the crevices of leaves, so tight that I would have to pull the leaves off almost to see them, but I will examine and let you know. The corn is beautiful, full of tassels and now silks. I am hand polinationg to be sure they are pollintaed, touching tassels to tassels and tassels to sliks. I see lots of dusty pollen floating around when I do this. Wish me luck! and thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Charles on June 29, 2009 at 4:57pm

Some of my corn has blown over, but some of it has had some unintended support. I made a last minute decision to split a few rows of corn & pole beans after I had built a trellis out of poles at the end of the rows with the rope "netted together" to give the beans something to climb. The corn that is along the ropes hasn't blown down...yet.

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