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Re: Corn Spacing

Kurt McCullum wrote:
>
> Some of you may remember that there was a discussion about corn spacing about
> a month ago. I wanted to give everybody an update on how the new spacing
> worked for me.
>
> I read the Organic Gardening update that Mel wrote Feb 96 and I decided to
> try his corn spacing. I planted my corn 4 per sqft in mid-late Feb. I just
> harvested it on Sunday and I was not happy with the results. I harvested the
> first of 3 squares which I planted and I only got one complete corn cob. I
> used a dwarf corn (Hookers Sweet corn) which I didn't think would be a
> problem in the 4 per sqft spacing. Each plant had 2-3 cobs on them and the
> pollination of these was very poor. Less than half of each cob was
> pollinated. I re-planted in another area using a spacing of 9 in a 2x2 square
> which gives them a bit more spacing. If this doesn't work then I'll go to 1
> per sqft which the book has listed.
>
> Keep in mind that I planted very early in the season because my location made
> it possible. Hope this helps those of you who are thinking about trying this
> spacing new method.
>
        While I know that spacing has something to do with pollination, I
thought the problem was when the rows were too far apart.
        I would have thought that if you had ears at all that the plants got
enough sun, water and nutrients, which would be the issue if they were
too close.
        Perhaps a wider patch of each planting? I'm just hoping your results
are skewed since I have a fairly dense planting (Averaging 3/sq ft).
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