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Tee Gee
but it is the seed you are eating, surely if they cross polinate the seed will be different and here fore taste different?

i must say i am not worried about it but i am interested from a genetics point of view
sorry to be a pain

I sowed mine in a tray, put them in the top shelf in one of the mini-greenhouses a week or so ago, and they're just coming through.

tg,

What I don't understand is why you grow four different varieties and then cross pollinate them all so that you don't have a clue what variety you are actually eating.
The idea, to my way of thinking is that you find a variety that you like and grow that one.
The way you describe it you could find the perfect cob for you but not have a clue what variety you are eating. I'm not knocking you though, each to their own :)

Quote from: adeymoo on April 30, 2008, 16:49:55
I am following what ninnyscrops method. I laid kitchen towel in a seed tray and wet it prior to laying 40 seeds on the towel and putting clingfilm across rim. Lo and behold I have to rush to buy peat pots as they seem to have produced inch long roots rather sharpish -only 2 have failed so far to shoot. My only concern is that seeds seem to to have grown white mould beards. This may be the effect of having clingfilm on too long? Seeds were on top of my wardrobe adjacent to a window - like all my plants started indoors, as the tomato plants occupy the window sills.

the white beards are the mycellium that the plant needs to grow, this is NOT a problem, it's how the plant obtains it's nutrient. because most people plant below the surface, they don't see what's really going on!

from what ive read in the books cross polination can reduce cob size and cause them to wither and all sorts, i got the impresion it wasnt a good thing to do....and as a newbie ill be following the book on that score! we too like sweetcorn but have no idea what the plants will yield but will plant some in the kids patch for them to oggle and water n check and eat and some wherever theres space on ours, so may get away with more than one variety if spaced well? i hope? will be germinating this weekend i think, sounds like theyre quick growers!