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All of our sweetcorn has not ripened yet and are still clear instead of yellow, with frosts soon on there way and no warm weather in sight, what is the best method to make them ripen?

Are you sure they aren't a white variety? Are the kernels watery or creamy? Have you tried one? Have the tassles gone brown yet?

they came from yellow seed, the corns half way down the cob are yellow. they kernals are creamy, and the tassels have been brown for weeks now

any ideas?

Cut your losses & pick them!

You may find that they are by now going a bit starchy.

boo!!! didnt know if i could hang them at allt oripen them?

bear in mind that they never ripen to the end. Are you checking the whole cob or just the last inch?

both the top is still clear and the middle is creamy

Glowy - "from yellow seed, the corns half way down the cob are yellow. the kernals are creamy".

Get them in quick!!

would you say they are ready then? as they are very pale yellow, and the juice which comes out is creamy, just supposed im used to the supermarket ****

lol!!!

i shall get them this evening.

Quote from: tim on September 28, 2006, 13:00:15
Glowy - "from yellow seed, the corns half way down the cob are yellow. the kernals are creamy".

Get them in quick!!

think Tims advice is meant for you ruffmeister, we mourned the eating of our last cob some time ago (well apart from the ones in the freezer)

Some of mine stayed white even though they were mean't to be yellow and tassels were brown never ripened and some haven't still.

So sorry, Glowy!

Mine are still coming, although a lot slower now.  I start to check regularly and this lot are dayglo yellow.  I wonder if there is something in the soil, or the air temps or something which varies the colours of the cobs.  I pick them because if they go startchy, they are as tough and chewy as old booties, altho the hamsters don't complain!

Oh, God - you have hamsters too??

Unfortunately Tim, we do.  :-\

i take it all back went to the lottie last night and low and behold they are ALL yellow. Corn all round

cheers peeps  :D

I was about to ask the same question! The tassles on mine are brownish and billowy: I opened a cob yesterday and the kernals looked distinctly embryonic! We're having a marvellous patch of allotment weather: sunshine then furious showers on a 12 hour rota. Should I get the cobs in or trust there'll be no frost soon?

Fingers and toes... Buxton is notorius(?) for its poor weather down south here in Derby!
;D

Decision made for me! I tried one of the cobs: it tasted like a big baby sweetcorn. Unfortunately I ate it and am now waiting for the stomach ache to begin...
So, I shall just leave them. If they ripen, they ripen. It was a valiant effort.