Mutant Sweetcorn ???

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  1. Victoria

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    I shall have my first corn on the cob this year for dinner tonight ... compliments of my friend who grows veggies and I help eat them! [​IMG]

    However, on husking the one a while ago, I discovered not one but two, yes, TWO ears of corn in the husk ... is this where baby sweetcorn comes from ????????? :rolleyes:

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  2. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    Possibly LOL. :D

    I see it didn't get pollenated.
     
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    Pray tell pete, how do you (note I don't say "we") know it didn't get pollinated? [​IMG]

    Is it because it's white and not yellow? Aren't the little Chinese teeney weeney corns whitish? I have to know the answers to these important questions because my friend will want to know these answers. How will he know a "girl" corn from a "boy" corn? Will he need a paintbrush or will a feather boa suffice? :rolleyes: He knows less about these things than me ... so you can just imagine ... [​IMG]

    By the way, the corn was ace, having been picked today, smothered in Azorean butter (a bit like Cornish or Welsh but not quite so rich) and lots of black pepper. I even marginally cooked the little blighter and it was tender but tasteless ... a bit like the little Chinese ones! :D
     
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    Perhaps I was wrong, from the pic it looked like the corn hadn't formed, perhaps it had but was not ripe, unlike the main cob. :rolleyes:
     
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