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Passionate about corn! Located in NE NM/SE CO area. Would love to grow!
The first main goals are to breed maize / corn that has lots of purple anthocyanins in the foliage, stems, leaves, cobs, and husks (and possibly in the kernels as well). The second main goals are to eliminate any puny cobs that have an extraneous amount of husks which is common in purple foliage maize. My Colorado adapted landrace already should have these puny cobs eliminated. However it is always good to introduce new genetics periodically. I have a small sample of other purple foliage corn that is from ARS GRIN that should also have good genetics to fold in. I also have some old purple pod corn that i would like grown out that maybe could be mixed in.
As a side note, i have once observed this corn of mine to occasionally have air roots exuding a sappy substance. From modern research we now know these corn types exude a sugary sap to feed nitrogen fixing bacteria. Any of these should be noted and saved separately for a sub-breeding project!
My corn was also originally selected to thrive in extra early Northern Colorado spring plantings on April 1st, much earlier than our last expected frost. When planted with other Indian corn and sweet corn varieties, mine would always survive fine even with early spring snow, while the other corn varieties would die. I have not continued to put this selection pressure on this variety, but i would like to someday. This landrace may still have this unusual cold tolerance ability, which is probably related to the high anthocyanins. Anthocyanins are known to help keep plants alive in cold weather and help provide a small amount of energy much like chlorophyll.
The husks and cobs can be boiled in water to produce a dark anthocyanin water. This may be able to used for natural fabric dying or maize morado like drinks or natural food coloring.
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Passionate about corn! Located in NE NM/SE CO area. Would love to grow!
We are running a corn smut trial next season. I would be interested in trying out some of your seeds in the trial if you would like.
This sounds like an interesting stalk with several silks. Among other things, Elderberry cultivars thrive in our small, very natural hobby garden in the SW Missouri Ozarks. In 2021, we very successfully grew EFN's Tetapache Gray Mottled Cowpeas and continue to enjoy this delicious heirloom variety though the winter. In 2020, we grew a nice little crop of Glass Gem corn, which we popped for a tasty snack today. We realize that it's not much, but we could dedicate 80 sq. ft. to one of these noble efforts. Thanks, Mike
I have a chunk of property that is devoted to rotating squash and corn since they can grow in the presence of juglone. I'd be happy to see what would come up here!
I’m in mountains of western NC and I’ve been growing Maize morado for 11 years, and twice I’ve grown one other mysterious high anthocyanin Maize from Guatemala highlands that someone brought back and gave me, both of them make the aerial (presumably n-fixing ) mucilaginous roots. I accidentally crossed maize morado with Cherokee white eagle dent corn nine years ago. Also growing teosinte for the third time this year. I’ve been using swarm breeding approach rather than tight trait selection, for maximum diversity, moving towards a shorter season, shorter stalked dark purple plant and cob with loads of dripping aerial roots and dent kernels. I’d love to grow out your seeds in isolation, send some back to you and keep some to add to my swarm here. Thank you!
I am new to the experimental farm network and would love to be part of this project! I'm excited. Would it be preferred that I refrain from growing other strains of corn wile working on this project?