Sowing Tips: VE-064 F1 Purple Sweet Corn
Seed Sowing Guide
Seedling:
Prepare Baba seedling soil and seedling pots. Fill up the seedling pots with seedling soil, use finger gently make a small hole, put in 1 seeds and cover with a thin layer of soil.
During seedling stage, put under shaded area and make sure water thoroughly when needed. When there is sprout, then move it to area with direct sunlight.
♥♥ Extra Tip: Before put in seed into soil or before transplant, you could water the seedling mix or potting mix first. This is to ensure the potting mix get enough moist and prevent plants get dehydrated later.
Transplant:
When the seedlings grow to around 8cm, the seedling is ready to transplant.
- Ready a suitable size pot, the mini depth of the planting container is 300mm. Such as Baba RD-392, MJ-400, 537 Volcano Box or 507-L Planter.
- Fill up the planting pot with Baba Organic Vegimix, and make holes to prepare for transplant. Each holes require minimum 300mm distance.
- Take out the seedling from seedling pots, and put into the hole. Press gently on surrounding soil, to make the seedling stay firm.
♥♥ Extra Tip: Purple Sweet Corn is a kind of cross-pollination plants, so suggest to grow by 3×3 grid, in order to increase the percentage of pollination.
Fertilizing:
Put Mr. Ganick 532 Organic Leafy Fertilizer on 7th days after transplant. After that, repeat fertilizing on every week, for a month.
One month later, or when the plant start flowering, change the fertilizer to Mr. Ganick 426 Organic Melon Fertilizer. Repeat weekly too.
Dig a small hole beside plants, and put in fertilizer, then, cover the fertilizer with a thin layer of soil.
Water after done fertilizing.
Pest Control:
May apply Mr Ganick Dr Neem in the evening after watering, in order to repel insect, twice a week.
Pollination:
Shaking the corn tree manually in the morning for artificial pollination after blossom. Keep only 1-2 fruit for each plant and harvest extra fruits as baby corn.
Harvest Tips:
Ready to be harvested 70 days after transplant, when the corn cob turns to light brown.
Purple Sweet Corn is a multiple harvested crop, suggested to harvest 2- 3 times.
