🖐️🌽HAND POLLINATING CORN ✌️ TWO DIFFERENT METHODS 🌽 HOW TO POLLINATE CORN 🌽

[@RockingCHomestead]

Great info. we are growing 1 row of corn in a raised bed, just for fun and this will for sure help.

[@BIGALTX]

I hope so!

[@Rhubarb593]

I didn’t know it was the silk that needed pollinating so I have been pollinating the tassels together Now I might have some corn this year😀

[@carl8958]

Nice, dark green plants. In the evening I've been walking through my five rows giving everything a good shake. Clouds of golden pollen rain down. Just to be sure, I'll follow your example with the makeup brush. Same stage of growth here near Noonday.

[@BIGALTX]

Very nice... neighbor :)

[@PSonak]

I planted three rows of corn and also decided to hand pollinate. I cut off a piece of the tassle and rubbed it straight onto the silk. Just another idea to achieve the same goal.

[@BIGALTX]

Interesting... thanks

[@Dovey62]

That's exactly what I do! It works great!

[@michaelwozniak8539]

That's some very healthy looking corn. I wish I could get mine that green.

[@BIGALTX]

Corn is a heavy feeder. Lots of nitrogen ... and water :)

[@rebeccalay119]

Thanks, growing corn for the first time. Can use all the advice I can get.

[@BIGALTX]

Glad to help Corn is a heavy feeder. Make sure its getting enough fertilizer.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

The whole time growing up we and everybody we knew planted two rows of sweetcorn. Most of the time those rows were east-west, but my uncle had his garden north-south. We never had any issues with ears filling out.

[@BIGALTX]

Good to know I always like to hear real-life experiences... thanks!

[@esmeraldakitty]

I will do this. Thanks.

[@BIGALTX]

Let me know how it turns out. I'll be doing a follow up in a few weeks.

[@sharonousmankobo3602]

Thank you so much for demonstrating the two techniques. I'm in Virginia zone 7a. This is my first time ever growing corn so I only have to about 10-15 stalks. I will try your second technique. Happy Gardening! 🌱 🌽

[@BIGALTX]

Glad it was helpful!

[@NativeTearz]

Great video! Flooding sucks. And I have had to ha d pollinate corn before. Thanks for sharing how you do it & why.

[@BIGALTX]

👍😎

[@molliejonte2732]

Thank you. A lot of my corn didn't come up either. I appreciate the information, because I would like the little corn I have to make some good ears. I think I am going to use mine for seed. I planted heirlooms.

[@BIGALTX]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Rhubarb593]

Thank you

[@BIGALTX]

You're welcome... Thanks for watching!

[@frankb7645]

If Matthew McConaughey was a farmer, this is what he’d sound like 😅

[@BIGALTX]

Ha ha ha… I get that about once a month 😊

[@baseball1090]

can you pollinate the silks when they are still white? or do you have to wait until they get darker?

[@BIGALTX]

Yes! As soon as you see silk you need to start treating for earworms... and when the silks are a little better established (a week or so later) you should start pollinating. Now, if you have a LOT of corn grown close together, you shouldn't need to help with pollination. Only if there is just a row or two do you need to give them some help.

[@danrodrigues3531]

Bob Ross would be proud...

[@BIGALTX]

Yes he WOULD !! :)

[@sislertx]

Who knew..i am growing a small patch.of about 90 and dont really.need to.cover them to seperate.varieties .but do need to pollinate them. I thought those little things looking like grain had the pollen in it..guess i was wrong.

[@BIGALTX]

The tops (tassles) have the pollen The pollen falls on the silks and pollinates them

[@susanvang9840]

What is benefit of pollinate corns?

[@BIGALTX]

If corn is not pollinated the ears will not be full of kernels.

[@susanvang9840]

@@BIGALTX Thank you for the informations. I haven’t thought of using that ideas. This is my first year of planting corns, so don’t know how my corn will be turn out.

[@BIGALTX]

The main thing about corn is that it has to be pollinated and FED. Corn takes a lot of fertilizer and water to get nice full ears.

[@amandashongwe3521]

Can I store pollen? I ask because my corn here in (South Africa) is taking long to silk and by the time it starts silking, the pollen has been beaten about by the wind for 3 weeks and I hardly have any left.

[@BIGALTX]

Hmmm... I really don't know the answer. But, there are lots of other windy places that raise corn without any problems. So, I would think there is more pollen left on them than you think.

[@amandashongwe3521]

@@BIGALTX thank you for the reply.

[@RomeliaGomez-Calmell7934]

Same thing for me in S.Florida.

[@RomeliaGomez-Calmell7934]

👍

[@BIGALTX]

Thanks for watching!

[@snorman1951]

Has anyone actually tested this to see if fewer than four rows results in poor pollination? I usually plant corn three rows at a time and they seem to do alright without any help. There are rumors that the rain may end here soon and I can actually plant some corn this year. Likely I will have to mow the garden first.

[@BIGALTX]

I'm hoping this makes all the ears fill out.

[@justinmorgan1259]

Brother i appreciate the effort but your working too hard just shake the plants in the evening on dry days and the plants will do the rest same method i use with tomatoes

[@BIGALTX]

Hahaha... I do shake them, and that will work most of the time. But, there are some folks that only plant a1 or 2 rows that might need to do this to *_make sure_* they are pollinated. Just being precautious :)

[@dariushicks8243]

First

[@BIGALTX]

👍

[@ProfKSE]

Hand pollinating corn. Hahahhahahahaaa. You're such a joker!