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No, sweet corn varieties were first grown by Native Americans. Now a days most of these varieties have been lost and hybrid varieties are the most common. You can still find older varieties at places like Seed Savers and Johnny's Selected Seeds. Country Gentleman and Stowell's Evergreen are two of the more common, though others are available, particularly from "heirloom" seed houses.
GMO, or genetically-modified organism, corn is not available to the home gardener due to the proprietary legal requirements attached to the use of the seed.
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Can you grow corn from a piece of corn?
yes, it should grow with no problem. <><><> Maybe. If the original corn is a hybrid, what you get from planting it may not look like what you planted. If it is an "heirloom" non-hybrid seed, such as Country Gentleman sweet corn, you will get Country Gentleman. If it is a Hybrid Super Sweet, you may get a plant that looks more like a grass- one of the parents of the hybrid.
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.
Is sweet corn sweet?
Corn doesn't sweat. But sweet corn is sweet.
What is the sweetest sweet corn?
any corn can be made to be sweet. you boil water and the corn to make fuctose glutose and you have sweet cornAnswerSweet corn normally is sweet because of two genes, the su1 (sugary) gene and the sh2 (shrunken-2) gene. If the su1 is recessive, you have normal sweet corn such as the hybrid Golden Bantam Cross. If the sh2 gene is recessive, you have a supersweet such as Supersweet Jubilee. The very sweetest sweet corn varieties have both genes recessive, but are somewhat difficult to grow because they have very little starch reserves in the endosperm of the seed.
Where does sweet corn come from?
It is very surprising to hear but sweetcorn actually origanates from Sweeden. This funny yellow stuff is delicious and we all know it! how wonderful it is to eat with celery but there you have it, the best fact in the world!
How is Hybrid corn?
its not
Is sweet corn a monocot or dicot?
Sweet corn is a monocot.
Are hybrid crops widely used?
They are in the US. Nearly all corn produced is hybrid, along with many other crops as well.
Do sweet corn rich in protein?
Sweet corn is way higher in protein than regular corn.
Is a sweet corn above or below ground?
Sweet corn is above ground. It is the fruit of the corn stalk.
Is corn on the cob a weed?
No. people grow crops of sweet corn, and feed corn. humans eat sweet corn (how ever they want) and cows get the feed corn. it's not a weed. but there are lots of different types of sweet corn too.
Can kernels from an ear of corn which you raised be planted?
If it was a standard "open pollinated" corn (an "old style" corn), yes - it will reproduce new corn plants and ears exactly like the one you planted the kernels from. If it is a newer hybrid corn (and 98% of all corns grown are hybrid corns) then no, it can't. It will create corn plants, that will grow ears, but the ears will revert to one or another of the parents mated to produce the hybrid - maybe with good results, maybe with very disappointing results.
