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Corn bearing unisexual flowers pollinate by wind. The male flowers are produced at the top of the plant and the female flowers in leaf axil, somewhere at midlength of the plant.
Male flowers of the plant mature first followed by female flowers. Thus cross pollination is ensured.
What else can I help you with?
Which plants are not able to self pollinate?
Most plants do not self pollinate.
Are plants that cross pollinate called offspring?
Plants that cross pollinate are called hybrids.
How is canna indica pollinated?
Hummingbirds pollinate canna in North America. In other areas, sunbirds or bees pollinate canna.
What type of pollinators do dahlias have?
Bees will pollinate dahlias. Humans can pollinate dahlias by hand so that they can create new cultivars.
Why do some flowers have anthers hanging out?
The advantage is anthers can pollinate by wind more easily.
Can sunflowers cross pollinate with seed corn?
No.
Do bees help pollinate corn?
No. Corn is really a variety of grass, and grasses are wind pollinated.
Can you plant sweet corn and field corn in same field?
You can, but if they pollinate at the same time, the sweet corn will taste all starchy and not sweet because it crossed with the field corn.
How much corn should you expect from 2 corn plants?
None. Corn needs other corn to pollinate. Next time plant about 4 square feet of corn at a minimum. You should expect about 1-2 ears per stalk.
Why do some farmers remove tassels from corn?
Since tassels are the male flower of the corn plant (silk is the female part), detasseling is done to control how the corn pollinates itself before the kernels on the ear develop. When the pollen from a tassel touches the silk, a corn kernel develops, which is why detaselling is a good method of controlling how ears grow. Typically, farmers will grow two different types of corn in one field, but only detassel one kind, leaving the other to pollinate all. The detasseled corn will then be a cross-breed (it cannot self-pollinate), which allows for custom-designed ears or produces a higher yield.
Does a bat pollinate?
Yes bats do pollinate.
What effect does pollen from genetically modified plants have on organically grown plants?
Pollen from GMO plants can (and do) cross pollinate with organically grown plants of the same species (corn with corn, soybeans with soybeans, etc.), which results in contamination of the organically grown plants.
Do hornets pollinate?
Yes, hornets actually do pollinate.
When does a flower pollinate?
Flowers don't pollinate.Bees pollinate the flower.
Why detassle corn?
Usually you take the tassels off to pollinate corn (you shake the tassels onto the silk) each of the silk hairs produces one kernel of corn. Also, Detasseling is done to cross-breed, or hybridize, two different varieties of corn. Corn is planted in alternating rows of different corn varieties. One variety is detasseled (tassels removed ) and is fertilized by the second variety to produce an improved hybrid.
Would topping corn by removing the tassels help the ears grow fuller and larger?
It might, but keep in mind that the tassels contain the pollen, which is needed to pollinate the ears and produce edible corn. If you remove the tassels before the ears are fully pollinated, you won't produce anything.
Do corn plants have 2 kinds of flowers on the same plant?
Yes, corn plants have both male flowers (tassels) and female flowers (ears) on the same plant. The tassels produce pollen, which is transferred to the silk of the ear to pollinate and produce kernels.
