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Yes, it is a seed that can be kept over time.
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What is the Difference between pea seed and maize grain?
Yes, they are two different plants. Maize is also known as corn.
How do you grow maise in South Africa?
Maize is a type of sweet corn that is grown in South Africa. To grown the maize, you will need to sow the soil and place the seed in a hole three times as big as the seed. The best time to plant the seed in South Africa is from September to November.
When corn goes to seed?
Corn (maize) "goes to seed" once the tassels have released their pollen onto the silks down where the ear develops.
Why is corn called Indian corn?
What we call 'Corn' was actually a small grain type of plant that the Myan's manipulated by cross breeding the plant until it had a single husk over multiple seeds, instead of a husk covering each individual seed [kernal] This was to make it easier to farm. 'Shucking' a single husk was much easier than shucking a husk from each seed. They called this plant maize.
Is popcorn a fruit or a vegi?
Popcorn is a Vegetable; the kernel is the seed of the corn plant.
Why do you not use the term maize fruit and maize seed?
The maize grain is actually a fruit in which the fruit wall and the seed coat are fused together to form a protective layer. Such a fruit is termed as grain or seed .therefore, we call it as maize seed instead of maize fruit
What is the number of days for germination for corn?
Corn seed germination requires temperatures at least 50 °F. Under the correct conditions, it takes 3-6 days for the sweet corn seed to germinate.
What shows the position of the embryo in maize seed?
Being a monocotyledon maize seed has straight embryo
How many seeds of corn in 1 kg?
Corn (maize) can have widely varying seed counts per pound depending on the kind of corn (dent, flint, sweet, etc.) and whether the seed has been sized for mechanical planting. An approximate average across all types and sizes would be about 1,800 seeds per pound, but it can vary from as few as 1,200 per pound to over 3,500 per pound. Standard types of sweet corn, either sugary (su) or sugar enhanced (se), have about 2,000 to 3,000 seeds per pound. Supersweet corn (sh2), generally ranges between 3,000 to 5,000 seeds per pound. Growers typically plant about 24,000 seeds per acre. Most professional seed companies offer corn seed by its seed count, not by weight. This allows the grower to more precisely purchase his or her needs.
What does fowl use to eat?
Fowl as in chickens, are primarily seed eaters, which means they would eat grass seeds as well as corn, maize, rice and such.
Why maize grain is a fruit but not seed?
Cereals, grains, or cereal grains are grasses (members of the monocot families Poaceae or Gramineae).Maize is a monocotyledon (monocot) it is a grain not a fruit.The kernel of maize is often referred to as the seed and can be refered to as a fruit. The cob is close to a multiple fruit in structure, except that the individual fruits (the kernels) never fuse into a single mass.
What are the most important crops of Pakistan?
Weat,rice,suger cane and corn or it can be seed oilMajor Crop in Pakistan Are: - Wheat - Rice - Sugarcane - Cotton - Maize
