Corn just got leveled

[MontyJ]

We had a bad storm roll thrugh the other night and it layed some of the corn down. It finally got stood back up today, just in time for a wicked storm with high winds. The corn is now flat on the ground. I don't know if it will recover from this one...and I was going to hill it his weeken too

 

[majorcatfish]

i <we> feel your pain..
hope the best for your corn...we gave up on our corn this year farms market is in our plans for corn...

 

[the1honeycomb]

There is a lot of that going around! I staked up all my corn!! looks like corn crutches!

 

[seedcorn]

IF corn is knocked over, let it be. It may be harder to pick it but the other nodes that touch the soil will set brace roots that will help feed the plant. Looks is the worst part, has nothing to to do with performance as plant will grow back to the sun. Moving the plant and straightening it back up could cost you some roots. Plus chance to snap it off.

 

[majorcatfish]

IF corn is knocked over, let it be. It may be harder to pick it but the other nodes that touch the soil will set brace roots that will help feed the plant. Looks is the worst part, has nothing to to do with performance as plant will grow back to the sun. Moving the plant and straightening it back up could cost you some roots. Plus chance to snap it off.

you have my permission to rub-in your yankee corn this summer

 

[seedcorn]

oh trust me, I'd NEVER rub it into a southern what we Yankees have...........oh no, never.

Did have peas the other night, but unfortunately you sent your heat our way so that was probably my only mess.... The south strikes again.

 

[majorcatfish]

oh trust me, I'd NEVER rub it into a southern what we Yankees have...........oh no, never.

Did have peas the other night, but unfortunately you sent your heat our way so that was probably my only mess.... The south strikes again.

sorry no peas, but we did have fresh eggplant parmesan and tomorrow will be zucchini mexican style boats with turkey.....

sorry monty did not mean to jack your thread

nothing worse than losing something you started with your sweat

 

[so lucky]

If seedcorn says to leave it be, then I'd leave it be. I'm willing to bet he knows corn.

 

[digitS']

If it is laying over on top of something . . .

I've used that Florida weave technique that others use for tomatoes. You know - a stake every now and then and then "weave" 2 lengths of twine down the row.

Looks count for something . . . . Actually, I never even thought it might have been okay to leave the corn down. Altho', I have had it do a nice "J curve" before.

Steve

 

[baymule]

Monty, sorry your corn got knocked flat. :/ Nothing beats good home grown corn. Maybe like seedcorn says, it will produce horizontally and you can salvage something from it.