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Offline pompeylee

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Glass corn
« on: August 13, 2016, 12:10:05 PM »
Took some glass corn (also known as flint corn) kernels  (seeds) over in april for one of our turkish friends to grow which he said would be more for his mum then him, below are the results, not bad eh?






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Re: Glass corn
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2016, 14:30:18 PM »
Looks lovey.

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Re: Glass corn
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2016, 15:03:48 PM »
Looks great doesn't it, bit tough to eat apparently more use as a decoration, hoping mine grow to maturity here in the UK  :-\

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Re: Glass corn
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2016, 17:25:44 PM »
Love sweet corn but never tried this variety.  As you say, probably best for decoration if it is tough.

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Re: Glass corn
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2016, 19:12:55 PM »
Here's my efforts grown in good old UK, hopefully be able to grow more in calis next year.





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