a corn variety that's not only good lookingbut is absolutely healthy for you say hi to the blue maize [music] so the blue maize corn is a special typeof corn now before we take a look at the details
blue corn snakes for sale, let's look at what types ofcorns are available so the first type of corn is the sweet corn the regular sweet cornthat you can grow in your garden it tastes very sweet
there's a second type of corn called field corn which is basically an inedible type of cornthat nobody grows in their home garden it is only used for cattle feed and there's a third variety ofcorn that i would like to classify that's somewhere between sweet corn and field corn its an absolutely nice tasting corn very delicious but it's not sweet it doesn'thave that much of sugar as in sweet corn so you can either direct sow your cornseeds in your raised beds or the ground or you can sow them in these kind ofcups or small containers and then once
the seeds sprout you can transplant them and here you can see my three-year-old son sowing these corn seeds and as you might have realized this process is fairly simple and easy to do so within about 15 days your seeds should germinate and should form well definedleaves as you can see here and this is a and this is a good time to transplant thesecorn seedlings into larger containers now now we'll be growing our corn in thi
rope bucket tub that i got from walmartfor a cheap price now if you haven't watched myvideo on growing sweet corn in containers i highly recommend that youwatch this video you can see the link to the videoon your screen and this video explains allthe details of how to successfully grow sweet corn in containers the video that you're seeing right now is just a plant profile of the blue maiz corn
and i really wanted to do a video onthis corn variety simply because it's absolutely delicious and along with theglass gem corn variety which is the other absolutely delicious corn variety forms this class of corn which is not very sweet but is also not a field corn so if you're like me if you like corn that isnot very sweet you'll absolutely loveeating this corn and make sure you water your plantsvery well after transplanting
and this is also a good time to add a liquid fertilizer or if you prefer to usea slow-release fertilizer this is a good time to add it so 40 days since sowing these seedsand transplanting them the corn plants havestarted growing very vigorously as you can see here they have nice green leaves and this is what you should belooking for whenever you're growing plants it should have this lush green foliage
in the first few days and its about fifty three days now you can see the plants arestill growing very well and once it's about seventy two days you can see that the plantshave grown really tall and remember that this rope bucketactually holds a lot of soil it holds a lot of potting max so they will grow very well the corn plantsgrow really well in this kind of container so this is how they look at 74 days you'veseen the
corn has started producing thesemale flowers on the top and the corn cobson the lower part of the plant and this is also a good time to pollinateyour corn plants corn is wind pollinated but if you want you can justshake the plant a little bit in the early hoursof the morning or late afternoon and this will cause the plantsto produce more kernels so as you can see here the toppart of the con is now drying out
and this is not really an indicatorto harvest the plant someone assure you so i'm gonna show youby harvesting this one corn that what are the things you should look for when harvesting acorn why is this a bad harvest? now the top part of the corn as you can see is pretty dry however the corn cobhas not matured yet and you'll soon see when i open the corn here that the corn really hasn'tmatured yet
now this is a blue variety of cornit has blue kernels but as you can see here all these kernels are white so they really haven't got a chance todevelop and become the corn that's supposed tobe harvested that's why i call this a bad harvest this is not what you should be doing you should be waiting or for the corn cobto completely develop and i'll shortly show youwhat are the signs to see that now this plant is being grown in a mixthat has a lot of organic material like compost it also haspeat moss and perlite
now when adding fertilizerto your corn plants once they are about six to eightinches you need to supply ahigh nitrogen fertilizer and once the plants are establishedand about to flower unity you need to use a balancedfertilizer for best results now let's look at this cornthat we just harvested now this is a good indicator you see how i just pulled off a littlebit of the husk to make sure that it'sa little blue
that's what you should belooking for if you just pull down thehusk a little bit you can see the colorof the kernels you can even make surethat they are developed and this is really thegood time to harvest your corn so as you can see herethis corn looks lovely it's got nice bright blue kernels and this is what gives a guy named bluemaze and i just love to eat my corn by justroasting it
on my cooktop as you can see here it's very easy to just roast thethe corn if you want to flavor it you can addsome lime or lemon or some salt but even if you just roast your cornit tastes absolutely delicious so there we have it thatshow our corn looks like so i'd like to know from youmy youtube viewers have you tried growingthis corn?
or have you tried growing any kind of cornthat is not sweet? i'd love to know your opinions
and i'll see you again soon! happy gardening!
