As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I'm kind of hesitant in posting this update on the Rustler corn, as this is the tassel stage or what I call "shooters" as corn sends up a spike just before the tassel appears.
As you can see by the above on July 2nd, we have proceeded to a lush garden which is overflowing. The potatoes are dying back, while the melons and cukes are in full production, overrunning the wall.
The below photo of Rustler as wee baby cornlings looks so small and fragile, compare to the above.
The reason I'm reluctant to call this the tassel stage on August 2nd, as only one plant is tasseling is that heritage corn is not like GMO corn. I have been watching my favorite yellow corn, which is now into it's second week of tasseling. I told TL today in observing one plant, that I had 3 ears on it, and a tiller was producing a smut ear. That is 4 ears of corn on one plant. Yes one big ear is better, but that is why heritage corn tassels so long, as it is designed to beat the drought beat the insects, beat the storm. The odds are better for survival if you get one ear that the silk is not eaten off from hoppers, one ear that gets rain on it, one ear that is evenly pollinated, if you are a plant tasseling for two weeks or more.
I have some Blackfoot little blue Indian sweet corn that produces multiple tillers and ears on them all. It is short in 3 feet, but that plant too, tassels over a long period of time.
I'm not a fan of planting corn in hills, like 3 kernels to a mound. I never had good results with that. I plant in a Hebrew row which is American as it assists production, but when you have corn that is sending out tillers, unlike GMO, you need wider rows and more room between plants as we are not dealing with one stalk.
Rustler at this time is not producing tillers. I have it in a coal cinder spot that I left. It is a bit yellow, but it is growing well. The yellow corn, the identity of which I will not share as it is my personal discovery and rich people are not donating enough to place my world in jeopardy, is interesting as like Rustler, it will tassel about four feet tall. My yellow corn now is around 8 feet tall plus a few feet. This corn tasseled and it continued to grow. It is very pretty as these corns do not have tassels which are spikes, but are like weeping willows in the tassels cascade down and shower the silk on the corn like snow.
I was watching the Blackfoot corn and the bumble bees were most interested in that pollen. One never sees GMO corn tassels with bees on it. This heritage corn is just different as it is a not a toxin.
I did try and find my posts on Rustler. I only remember that I found this seed online after I could not get it from another source and discovered the satanic vermin had eaten my last ear. If you keep corn kernels on an ear, they will be viable a great deal longer than if you shell them. That is how seed companies used to ship corn, it was on the cob.
I think I planted this corn around June 10th, which is late. I know in the above photo it was just emerging around the 7th. I'm certain of the knew high date as we had rather cool weather after the 4th of July when it is supposed to reach knee high to produce and that was round July 10th.
Rustler is a 100 day corn. If I add the days at present, planting 10th June, we are by August 2nd in the beginning of tasseling, we are at day 54. I was figuring the climax blues band on September 15th as maturity, which is 44 more days........for 98 days. We are pretty close to 100 day corn, providing no early frosts or cold spells to retard maturation. We are in the almost 100's now, which is burning up the farmer crops in corn and beans, but as I deep water and deep till, our corn is doing very well, in spite of the HAARP chems which are harming nutrient uptake and the ability to absorb moisture at the microscopic level.
I believe I'm going to have pretty good weather the next two weeks, which will provide the heat and therefore the maturity that Rustler needs as we are on Brier Patch time with HAARP nasty freezes. The trending has been to hotter temperatures which is what I want. Humidity helps and it does look like spurts of rain which is where humid air comes from.
If I go from emergence date, which might be the 17th of June, then this time table to tasseling is going very well. That would be 46 days. Heat index shortens maturation periods............so 54 days to 100 days would be September 25th which is not out of the ballpark.........but my tasseling may be ahead of schedule as I might shave off two weeks on the end date, which is back to the 13th of September.
My recollection of Rustler was growing this on a very dry hill, in a very bad till, and I got the nicest white ears with hard kernels before September. It matures rapidly which is the wonder of this fast dry down corn.
It is though why this real genetic experiment is being recorded here for those intelligent enough to read and remember, because this is how food is grown in a meltdown. Rustler is doing what it did in the Northern Plains Indian era, it is living the fast life, investing the growth in the window which continued it's genetic code. I really have an affection for this corn, having grown a number of varieties, because it just gets the job done and looks pretty in the end.
We will though see how things go in this by God's Grace in the updates which follow as I need ears to be set on in the next two weeks, which is what Rustler promises with God's protection.
I have been here before with Bloody Butcher which is a really late corn for here, and it produced too, but I had that girl in early in May. That is not a June corn. I have Faith in God and Rustler. They will provide.
Nuff Said
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