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<blockquote data-quote="deerwhacker444" data-source="post: 3005951" data-attributes="member: 9117"><p>I really don't know exactly, I wasn't keeping track, but somewhere between 21-28 days. I was however counting the "days till harvest" which was stated to be 78 days, which just happened to be today. I picked a few over the weekend and did the thumbnail test on the kernels, all of them showed to be in the milk stage and I've been told that's when it's ready to pick. Cooked those up and ate them and they seemed ripe to me.</p><p></p><p>A few ears on the South side of the patch were late bloomers, they were still in the clear stage, they probably could have stayed another week, but I had the time/equipment/involuntary volunteers to do it today, so it all got picked.</p><p></p><p>I feel I was pretty lucky. Lots of the ears had earworms, but they really didn't eat much. The kernels at the tip usually aren't that developed anyway so earworm loss was minimal. I got rid of 3 raccoons earlier in the year, I was expecting every morning to find the patch ravaged by hungry coons, but they either didn't find it or I got rid of all of them for now. Going to try a 2nd crop to see if I can make enough dent corn to make a batch of fresh tortillas, always wanted to try that..</p><p></p><p>With the ears I ate along the way, the few I tossed due to worm/bird loss, I had roughly 28 serving bags, consisting of 4 ears, or a bunch of half ears. Something along the lines of 115-120 ears total. I was expecting and would have been happy with 75-80..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="deerwhacker444, post: 3005951, member: 9117"] I really don't know exactly, I wasn't keeping track, but somewhere between 21-28 days. I was however counting the "days till harvest" which was stated to be 78 days, which just happened to be today. I picked a few over the weekend and did the thumbnail test on the kernels, all of them showed to be in the milk stage and I've been told that's when it's ready to pick. Cooked those up and ate them and they seemed ripe to me. A few ears on the South side of the patch were late bloomers, they were still in the clear stage, they probably could have stayed another week, but I had the time/equipment/involuntary volunteers to do it today, so it all got picked. I feel I was pretty lucky. Lots of the ears had earworms, but they really didn't eat much. The kernels at the tip usually aren't that developed anyway so earworm loss was minimal. I got rid of 3 raccoons earlier in the year, I was expecting every morning to find the patch ravaged by hungry coons, but they either didn't find it or I got rid of all of them for now. Going to try a 2nd crop to see if I can make enough dent corn to make a batch of fresh tortillas, always wanted to try that.. With the ears I ate along the way, the few I tossed due to worm/bird loss, I had roughly 28 serving bags, consisting of 4 ears, or a bunch of half ears. Something along the lines of 115-120 ears total. I was expecting and would have been happy with 75-80.. [/QUOTE]
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