BuckyB93
Friday, March 29, 2013 9:42:49 PM
Here's what they look like so far.

At the rate they are growing, they will be “knee high by 4th of July” sometime mid June. No care other than potting soil, water, and sun.

My daughter loves to watch the progression from seeds to seedlings to sprouts to twigs like you see here. We are all looking forward to the full grown plants.

The tray is put in south facing bay window to get sunlight during the day then retired to their end table for the night (our cat likes to try to chew on the leaves so they might get misted with a "get away cat" squirt gun).

We have another 10 or so seedlings in the basement under some lights in a grow tent we set up for other seedlings in preparation for when the snow finally melts and we can get our garden gowing.

Thanks for the seeds Numi.NumiCorn (Medium) (2).jpg

jackconrad
Monday, April 1, 2013 9:49:43 AM
Gimme you rear he said..
madspackler
Monday, April 1, 2013 11:19:35 AM
HHhhmmmmm - Red Solo Cup!
dubleuhb
Monday, April 1, 2013 12:52:27 PM
Where do you live that you need to start corn indoors ? Never seen such a thing.
BuckyB93
Monday, April 1, 2013 12:59:03 PM
North central MA.

I don’t need to start them indoors. We started them when the kids had a snow day little while back and I was trying to think of things we could do. We broke out some stuff and began to do some seedlings.

Herbs

Numi Corn

Peppers

Sunflowers

dubleuhb
Monday, April 1, 2013 1:27:20 PM
Ah, I see. Well I hope it transplants well.

Here in WNY they will be planting sweetcorn in a couple weeks. It's planted under poly sheets to protect from frost. When they take it off it stands a foot tall in a couple days. That way we have sweetcorn by the 4th of July.

harleyd31
Monday, April 1, 2013 1:42:26 PM

Ah, I see. Well I hope it transplants well.

Here in WNY they will be planting sweetcorn in a couple weeks. It's planted under poly sheets to protect from frost. When they take it off it stands a foot tall in a couple days. That way we have sweetcorn by the 4th of July.

dubleuhb wrote:

Love me some good sweetcorn!!

sr20vet
Monday, April 1, 2013 1:52:31 PM

North central MA.

BuckyB93 wrote:

We've got another Masshole here? Where abouts? I'm a transplant from Waltham, in Chicago now.

BuckyB93
Monday, April 1, 2013 1:55:05 PM
Transplanted from WI to MA back in '93. Currently reside in Gardner (Rt 2 about 1-1.5 hrs west of Boston).
Numismaniac
Monday, April 1, 2013 1:56:57 PM
Looking good. still gonna send you some more, brother.

That way the other 2 classes can get all they want, trust me I have plenty. I harvested over 100# last year from my patch.

Let the cat have a couple just for some greens, will be good for the kitty, hehe.

sr20vet
Monday, April 1, 2013 2:05:46 PM

Transplanted from WI to MA back in '93. Currently reside in Gardner (Rt 2 about halfway between Boston and Springfield).

BuckyB93 wrote:

I'm kinda familiar with it. My cousins used to have a lot of hockey games there. We used to help host a bike race in your neck of the woods too. The Round Quabin, started in Ware, circled the reservoir (as you probably guessed from the name) and the fastest of the fast would finish back in Ware IIRC in around 3.5 hours. A bit over 60 miles round trip through some absolutely brutal mountain roads.

05busa
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 9:50:34 AM
Wooohoo
edin508
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:36:32 AM
Bunch of us MAholes here.
HockeyDad
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:38:33 AM

We have another 10 or so seedlings in the basement under some lights in a grow tent we set up for other seedlings

BuckyB93 wrote:

"Other seedlings" :-"

BuckyB93
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 11:58:45 AM

"Other seedlings" :-"

HockeyDad wrote:

Damn, busted!

(Herbs, peppers, sunflowers).

tj2001cobra
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 2:48:35 PM
HD - thinking the same thing.... Our grow light in the basement??

LMFAO!

BuckyB93
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 3:00:53 PM
Oh… You’re talking about hemp? The world's premier food source?

In college I had some friends that did that but they used a bunch of fancy lighting (high pressure sodium and some other kinds). I'm not sure how well it would do under a dual florescent tube shop light.

tyyler82
Tuesday, April 2, 2013 4:36:08 PM
It'll do just fine...

I think...:-"

edin508
Monday, June 3, 2013 3:25:39 PM
How's your corn making out, Bucky? Mine broke ground a couple of days ago and seems to be doing well so far.
BuckyB93
Monday, June 3, 2013 4:03:08 PM
I put them outside too early and these specific ones didn’t survive the cold snap that we had a little while back. I had to replant and the new ones are about the size you see in the picture above but in containers outside.