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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.