Hi,
Irecently read if you cut of the tassel (flower) on the top of your corn plant the corn it self will get bigger and better. Has anyone else read about this?

That's what I was thinkin' too!!!!

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Weezie

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Could you tell use pretty much what they said?
I would be very interested in their reasoning
behind this??

When one grows corn, you need that top tassle
to produce stuff *Can't remember what the darn things' called right this second, brain~drain*
but that stuff needs to fall down onto each
piece of tassle growing out of the actual ear of corn......
Each one is attached inside the husk to the kernal, and if it doesn't get touched by some of
that stuff, it will never produce..
So, hence it has to be there..

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
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I did find it and it does say after the tassel had pollinated the corn and you can feel the corn growing, is when you remove it.
web address: organicdownunder.com/growing_sweet_corn.htm

If that is the reasoning, it would make little to no difference to the growth of the corn as there is no energy being directed away from the growth of the fruit. The tassel is already dead if it is turning brown. It also opens a door for diseases to be vectored in through. I would not bother doing it myself.

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Mike Maier
aka
The Plant Doc