Topic: 2 foot long Sweetcorn

[Need a Leek]

I got chatting to a fellow lottie holder today and he told me that he is trying Giant Mexican Sweetcorn, these plants grow to about 16' tall and produce cobs up to 2' long. Never seen or heard of this variety before so I am going to watch these monsters grow with joy...Have any of you tried growing these ?, if so how did they turn out?.

Cheers
Tony

[cambourne7]

they sound like something that will be hungry and will be grown for size rather than flavour.

Intresting though.

[Robert_Brenchley]

Interesting if you want to grow monster plants, but probably not a practical vegetable!

[djbrenton]

I also wonder if (being Mexican) it's a variety grown for cornmeal rather than as a sweet variety. It could be amusing growing all giant plants on a plot though. Make your neighbours visit specsavers.

Funny that if you google, you can only get 'Green Giant Mexican Sweet Corn'. He didn't get the seeds out of a tin did he?

[Baccy Man]

Sounds like 'Skyscraper' which is supposed to taste very nice as well as looking impressive.
http://www.gardenerschoice.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=61

[star]

Sounds like you will need a fish kettle to cook it in ;D ;D ;D.

Let us know how it does and how it tastes..........does sound interesting :D

[Amazin]

Not so much a barbie, more a spit roast!

 ;D

[robbo]

Hello all, been browsing this forum for a while and found it very interesting and informative so have taken the plunge and joined. What finally pushed me to join was this thread. I have some of these giant mexican sweetcorn planted, 25 plants about 2ft high at the moment.
I bought them more out of curiosity to see if they would grow and how big.
Here is the place I got them from.
http://www.jungleseeds.com/SeedShop/Children.htm

[manicscousers]

hiya, robbo, nice to meet you
be interesting to see some pictures of these plants as they grow ?

[saddad]

Welcome to the site Robbo... if you search back there is an American who posts pics of Giant veg., including some very tall Corns. Ryton Garden grew some Cuzco Giant and they were 12' ish when I saw them but they didn't crop as the season wasn't long enough.  :-\

[PurpleHeather]

My experience with 'giant' vegetables is that they are impressive to look at but nothing special for eating.

I have a theory that there is a teaspoon full of flavour in each and the bigger it gets, the more that flavour is diluted. The smaller, the more concentrated.

Will be interested to learn differently.

[Jitterbug]

The south african corn (mielie)  which is a white version that I grew last year stood over six foot tall and had big cobs that tasted wonderful - so not true in my experience that size effects the taste!

I must admit these monsters I grew last year had all the old boys on the lottie agog - siddling over and asking what they were - they even took the offered tasters and came back for more!  Will have to guard this years crop closely now that they have acquired a taste for them ;D ;D

Jitterbug