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Corn Question
#2173451
07/22/17 02:46 PM
07/22/17 02:46 PM
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Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,091 Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
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I got a question for the corn experts on here. I planted 3 acres of nwtf RR corn and made a fine crop. It's gotten to be hard to find nwtf corn, and I'm not about to pay the price for new seed for a wildlife plot. Any chance I can save enough seed from this crop for planting next year and have it make decent? Of course, it would be strictly for wildlife and wouldn't be harvested and sold, so I think it's ok from a legal standpoint. Back when I was in school they told us it wouldn't work on hybrid corn, but that was before the RR stuff became common. I doubt that the seed will produce a crop that had the same characteristics, but thought it worth asking. The variety I have is DeKalb 6006232. Thanks for any help.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: Corn Question
[Re: poorcountrypreacher]
#2173644
07/22/17 06:28 PM
07/22/17 06:28 PM
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Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 765 Birmingham, AL
Willyb
Deer Farmer
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Deer Farmer
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Posts: 765
Birmingham, AL
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I did that one year with NWTF corn and for whatever reason only got about half the germination rate that I did with new NWTF corn I'd bought that year
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Re: Corn Question
[Re: Cynical]
#2173692
07/23/17 02:10 AM
07/23/17 02:10 AM
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Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,091 Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
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It will grow, but will carry traits of the variety parents rather than of the 6006232. That's what leads to inconsistency. But it'll grow, likely plenty good enough for wildlife. That's what I thought, but interesting that it will still make a decent crop. I wonder if both parents carry the RR gene? If they don't, I guess you would kill half the crop when you sprayed. Willyb, thanks for the first hand experience. Seems like it would be a risk to try it Thanks for the replies and PMs I've gotten. I have a plan for next year that doesn't involve stealing corn from my turkeys. Aldeer is a great place!
Last edited by poorcountrypreacher; 07/23/17 02:16 AM.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: Corn Question
[Re: poorcountrypreacher]
#2173782
07/23/17 04:06 AM
07/23/17 04:06 AM
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Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 39,439 Marshall County
FurFlyin
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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PCP, the first year I planted corn mixed into my soybeans for deer, I bought a bag of #2 yellow and planted it. I sprayed the whole patch with Roundup at least twice that year. 95% of that corn was RR. It made corn, but the ears were small. Mostly nubbins.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Re: Corn Question
[Re: FurFlyin]
#2173793
07/23/17 04:18 AM
07/23/17 04:18 AM
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Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,091 Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
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PCP, the first year I planted corn mixed into my soybeans for deer, I bought a bag of #2 yellow and planted it. I sprayed the whole patch with Roundup at least twice that year. 95% of that corn was RR. It made corn, but the ears were small. Mostly nubbins. That's what I was taught at Auburn in 1975. I thought that it might have reached the point now that all the parent varieties would produce decent crops, but based on replies to this thread it seems like the answer is that it's a risk that the parents might be no good at all. And then again, it might work fine. It's so expensive to grow corn that it's not worth a big risk on seed.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: Corn Question
[Re: poorcountrypreacher]
#2173819
07/23/17 04:45 AM
07/23/17 04:45 AM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 38,489 N. Bama
257wbymag
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Anything worth doing is worth doing right!
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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