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Re: For the Corn Experts

I'm not a corn expert, but I can help you on the tasselate tips:  they are
just small tassles like you have on the top of the corn plant that develope
on the tip of the ears.  Doesn't ruin the corn on the cob, but if you have
to sell the product it looks pretty unusual.  

Someone else will have to verify the glumes for you, but I think that is
when small sections of kernels develope on the tassle.  Doesn't really
affect the cobs, but from experience I know that these varieties tend to
attract black birds to your crop, and once they get started in a field I've
seen a lot of damage.  

Remember these aren't "diseases", they are physiological responses to the
environment.  When I trial a variety that tends to form tasselate tips
under stress I don't grow it anymore.   

Rick
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> From: Denny Hurley <dennyeh@epix.net>
> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: For the Corn Experts
> Date: Thursday, January 08, 1998 1:22 PM
> 
> 
> I recently read on a corn variety name Silverado that his variety was
> 
> was prone to react to stress by developing tasselate tips and glumes. 
> 
> What are these 2 diseases and how does one recognize them ?
> 
> Thanks,  Denny
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