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            Subject:  Tillers/suckers in corn... good or bad?
			
  
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            | Little Ketchup | 
            
               Grittyville, WA 
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               https://www.agry.purdue.edu/ext/corn/news/articles.03/Tillers-0623.html
  It says they dont detract/distract measurably from the main stalk. 
		
				
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               8/14/2024 5:27:18 PM 
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            | pumpkinpal2 | 
            
               Syracuse, NY 
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               Looks to me as though these 'tillers' are similar to secondary vines on pumpkin plants. Maybe burying stalks and tillers would result in the corn taking on the characteristics of a well-tended (and vine-buried) pumpkin plant. Grow corn, fill container with Myco-soil as corn grows and see what happens.  I did not have any corn sprout this year, butt also did not try all that hard, with seeds from like 2002, lol.  An experiment 4 next year, fer sherr! eg 
		
				
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               8/14/2024 11:54:39 PM 
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            | Little Ketchup | 
            
               Grittyville, WA 
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               Things a home gardener could try that a commercial grower would never even consider.  Although... the results would probably depend on the variety.
  I intercropped cucumbers and tomatoes between my corn.  A bit silly of me but every time I try something novel  I learn something. 
		
				
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               8/15/2024 1:20:14 AM 
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            | pumpkinpal2 | 
            
               Syracuse, NY 
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               How is a Christmas alphabet different? No-oh L, No-oh L, No-oh...eg 
		
				
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               8/15/2024 2:59:56 AM 
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            | Little Ketchup | 
            
               Grittyville, WA 
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               Rudoph and Santa Caus are not down that!  You're posting good winter stuff for the Aussies, New Zealanders and South African growers.  Ha ha. 
		
				
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               8/15/2024 4:23:40 AM 
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