corn seed

[coachmccree]

look for a good sweet corn to grow , live in so calif , most seeds local are not a true seed , growreal short , need 6 or 7 ft tall Thank you

[GoDawgs]

Here in the Southeast Silver Queen is the old standby sweet corn that every feed & seed carries and that's what I grow. It will get 6-7' when grown with a fertilizer regimen appropriate for growing corn. There are a lot of other, newer hybrids out there that are sweeter (Ambrosia, Bodacious, Honey and Cream, etc) but I've not grown them. Perhaps someone else will recommend some they've grown.

[worth1]

I think the newer hybrids are too sweet.
Hickory King has been around for years and you can do anything with it.
12 to 13 feet tall plants.

[EdieJ]

I second Silver Queen! We love it. So many of the newer hybrids are sweeter, yes, but they give up flavor for the sweet. We tried a few of them and keep coming back to S. Q.

[brownrexx]

Interesting video [mention]worth1[/mention] I now understand hominy. I have no interest in making it but I may buy some if I see it in a specialty store.

[tyrupp]

iocheif and silver queen are the ones i always grow and i usually get 2 ears per stalk

[Bronx]

SIlver Queen is good. I also liked Silver N' Gold. My favorite corn I've grown is Burpee's Silver Choice. Just planted some this past weekend.

[Cole_Robbie]

I grew red sweet corn one year. After boiling it, I got red water and ears of what looked like silver queen.

[EdieJ]

We grew that red corn one year too. Only when we cooked it, it looked like the backs of a bunch of gray grubs. Not very appetizing. If you ate it with your eyes closed it was OK but still nothing to get excited about tastewise.

[brownrexx]

Red or purple veggies lose their color when cooked because the anthocyanin pigments that cause the red/blue/purple colors are water soluble.

I have not tried this but I have read that adding vinegar to the cooking water or steaming preserves some of the color.