Baba Smart Grow Seed: VE-064 F1 Purple Sweet Corn
Item Code : VE-064
Product Description : F1 PURPLE SWEET CORN
Quantity : +/- 10 seeds
Maturity : 70 days
* High anti-oxidant anthocyanin!
Seed Sowing Guide
1️⃣Make some small holes on the seedling soil with gap 30cm each. Put in 2 to 3 seed for each hole and then covered with a thin layer of soil. Watering twice a day until after germination.
2️⃣When the seedling grow till 8cm height, may thin out excess seedlings (remove weak seedlings) or transplant, keep the strongest seedling for each hole.
3️⃣Topdressed with Baba 532 organic foliage fertilizer weekly, when the plants grow bigger, use Baba 426 organic fruiting fertilizer. Put the fertilizer away from plant with 10 to 15cm gap, cover with soil. Watering after fertilization.
4️⃣Only keep 1 to 2 fruit for each plant.
5️⃣Ready to be harvested when the corn cob turn to light brown.
Growing Tips:
🌽 If the plant grow more than 2 fruit, can harvest as baby corn.
Seed Sowing Guide
- Fill up the seedling pot with seedling soil, poke a hole from the soil with finger, pour 1 seed into the hole and then covered with a thin layer of soil.
- Place the seedling pots under the shade, watering once a day in the morning. The seeds would be germinated within 5 – 7 days, after that move the seedling pots to a place which expose to sunlight (no direct sunlight).
- When the seedlings grow to around 8cm, may prepare to transplant the seedlings into a planting pot with a depth of 30cm or more, leave 30cm gap for each plant.
- Top dressed with Mr Ganick 532 Organic Leafy Fertilizer weekly for bigger and healthier leaves; During the blossom period, switch to Mr Ganick 426 Organic Melon Vegetable Fertilizer for bigger and fuller harvest. Put the fertilizer 10 to 15cm away from plant, cover with soil, watering after fertilization. May cover with soil if the roots are exposed.
- 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.
- Ready to be harvested 70 days after transplant, when the corn cob turns to light brown.
Growing Tips
Sweet corn is a kind of cross-pollination plants, so suggest to grow by 3x3 grid, in order to increase the percentage of pollination.
May apply Mr Ganick Dr Neem oil in the evening after watering, in order to repel insect, twice a week.
Sweet corn is a multiple harvested crop, suggested to harvest 2- 3 times.