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| Close up on leaves of Japanese Striped Maize. |
Whenever I need some plant therapy in the winter I cruise through the seed aisles in the local gardening stores. This past winter I happened upon some seeds for Japonica Striped Maize. I had seen them before online, but had never seen them locally. I don't have room for growing corn of any kind, but the foliage on this corn really drew me in. So I decided to buy the seeds to see if I could grow them in my containers. I always like to put a tall focal point plant in the center, so why not try striped corn. If it worked I would even have my very own popcorn come fall. The seed packet said it did not recommend starting them indoors, but I decided to try starting half of the packet indoors and had great success with them. I planted them in the middle of two of my planters, and I am really happy with the results. I even noticed today that I have little ears of corn starting on my plants (I hand pollenated them, just to make sure).
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| Corn in one of my planters. |
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| Corn in another planter. |
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| Tassels developing on corn. |
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| Ear forming on corn. |
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Further view of corn growing in planters.
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2 comments:
I'm so excited to see this entry. All sorts of things can be grown in containers--I do potatoes, for example. Do you actually get corn cobs? People insist you need more than one corn, but last year I just had one plant, and I got corn!!
Yes, I added a picture of one of the ears that is forming. I planted two corn plants in each container.
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