My miniature flour corns are coming up.
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@thebiologistisn It's an interesting project and valuable for places like mine where the growing season is relatively short too. Here, I am just adapting my grain corn to a new location with very different soil and water conditions than before. The cobs were tiny last year compared to earlier, but I've seen the improvements before so I will continue to locally adapt it.
@malte My shorter plants have already shown to be more resistant to lodging than taller types.
I don't know that they'd overcome weed pressure in an open field, but they work well for smaller plots.
What I'm entirely unsure about is how the total yield across the season will compare with typical corn types. I'll have to do some experiments on this later.
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@malte My shorter plants have already shown to be more resistant to lodging than taller types.
I don't know that they'd overcome weed pressure in an open field, but they work well for smaller plots.
What I'm entirely unsure about is how the total yield across the season will compare with typical corn types. I'll have to do some experiments on this later.
@thebiologistisn Have you tried to breed for tillering as a trait? A colleague in my local adaptation community from further North in Sweden uses it to her benefit and she failed with both Gaspé and Painted Mountain before: https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/polar-corn-and-polar-melons-2024/3164
