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This corn is offered by Park's, yes, I know there are some gripes about Park's, but not from me.
(pronounced me-RYE) also means "taste") If you're in Canada, stop reading, Park's cannot ship it to you.
My stalks all have two ears. The other super sweet that I'm growing has only one ear per stalk. I remember multi-eared corn stalks from many thousands of years ago when I helped my Pa in the vegetable garden. Mostly two, but a lot of three ears per stalk. The second and third ears appear lower on the stalk, and later than the first ear. I'll post about the second ears, if they ripen OK, and how long they take, and etc.
I planted a couple of weeks apart, but the Canadian 56 day is getting ripe the same time as the Mirai, which is labelled 71 days, that I, of course, planted first.
My third planting, of the Canadian Quickie, is starting to show the tops, the pollen thingies, that's not called tasseling is it? Anyway, I am actually considering chopping it off, and planting something different! The Mirai is THAT much better tasting! (rant--rave) I've just finished my third or fourth taste test.
Here's some of what Park's says:
""It was bred on the Ahrens family farm in Illinois by J. David Mackenzie, a plantsman from Cornell University. As the economy worsened for family farms in the early 1990s, the Ahrenses hired Mackenzie to research new strains of sweet corn for market use. When he discovered Mirai®, he was really just trying to create a more disease-resistant variety. But one taste changed all that.
At first, the new corn didn't seem marketable. It needs to be hand-picked, which ruled out production by the huge commercial farms in the U.S. So Mackenzie introduced it instead to Japan, where small "boutique" farms are common, and many crops are still picked by hand. Within a few years Mirai® had become the bestselling sweet corn in Japan, capturing an amazing 35% of the market from all other varieties! (That's where it got its name, too. Mirai® (pronounced me-RYE) also means "taste"!)""
The seed is bloody expensive, 100 seeds for $4.00, or a sampler of the three colors, bi, yellow, and white, for a mere three cents per seed. ouch. But well worth it. I'm giving away the rest of my half pound of the 56 day corn to a local farmer.
Here's a link for the collection. The individual colors can be had from there.
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