Popcorn!

ChrisK · August 23, 2014

Called Glass Gem. Lots of other colors developing on other plants! This is a discard b/c the stalk was rotten.

Tracydr · August 23, 2014

So pretty!

joseph · August 23, 2014

In my garden glass gem is not a popcorn. Only about 10% of the kernels pop, and those that do are iffy.

ChrisK · August 23, 2014

Interesting. How are you drying/storing it?

I'm growing it as a novelty. We'll stick with Orville's white (none of that microwave stuff though!) when we want real popcorn.

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In my garden glass gem is not a popcorn. Only about 10% of the kernels pop, and those that do are iffy.

joseph · August 23, 2014

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How are you drying/storing it?

I grow about 10 bushels of popcorn per year, so the glass gem was treated the same as any other popcorn: Dried outdoors on canvas until the weather turns rainy/snowy and then brought indoors and monitored periodically until the moisture content is right for popping, and then each cob tested for popping ability.

**Mischka** · August 23, 2014

Is seed for this still as scarce as it was, in years past?

ChrisK · August 23, 2014

I didn't have any trouble finding it. I purchased from delectationoftomatoes.com.

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Is seed for this still as scarce as it was, in years past?

joseph · March 26, 2015

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Originally Posted by Mischka

Is seed for this still as scarce as it was, in years past?

Last fall I helped a farmer pick an acre field of Glass Gem corn. His seed is currently available in 50 pound bags.

BlackBear · June 7, 2015

Usually I would be a chicken little about cultivating corn in my area and not try it here . ( as we do not actually get a great amount of heat degree growing days ....just a wide band of frost free days ).

Tom Thumb popcorn was billed as able to prosper even in the cloudy pacific north west

and grows only to 3 ft tall !?? well this year it is doing very well ...early.

Anyone have experience with the variety ?

Starlight · June 7, 2015

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Originally Posted by BlackBear

Usually I would be a chicken little about cultivating corn in my area and not try it here . ( as we do not actually get a great amount of heat degree growing days ....just a wide band of frost free days ).

Tom Thumb popcorn was billed as able to prosper even in the cloudy pacific north west

and grows only to 3 ft tall !?? well this year it is doing very well ...early.

Anyone have experience with the variety ?

Don't know about the Tom Thumb for your area, but you ought to pm me and I'll send you some Bear Claw popcorn seeds I have that should do well in your area and also go along nicely with your avatar.

BlackBear · June 7, 2015

Thanks for the tip....I will have to consider and keep looking in to it for next year

salix · August 23, 2014

Mischka, I got mine from DoubleHelix, one of our members. Reasonable price, too. Am very much looking forward to seeing these beauties; it is later than my usual corn, and the temperatures have been dropping very close to freezing this past week.

ChrisK · August 26, 2014

Here are a few more. Pix taken around dusk.

joseph · August 26, 2014

Way pretty!!! Good work.

ChrisK · August 26, 2014

Next year I am planning a plot of Painted Hill sweet corn. Not as pretty as the Glass Gem but more interesting than white or yellow!

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BlackBear Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2015 Location: Nanaimo , BC Posts: 961	Tom Thumb popcorn for Pacific North West ? Usually I would be a chicken little about cultivating corn in my area and not try it here . ( as we do not actually get a great amount of heat degree growing days ....just a wide band of frost free days ). Tom Thumb popcorn was billed as able to prosper even in the cloudy pacific north west and grows only to 3 ft tall !?? well this year it is doing very well ...early. Anyone have experience with the variety ? __________________ So Many Tomatoes ...So Little Time !

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BlackBear Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2015 Location: Nanaimo , BC Posts: 961	Thanks for the tip....I will have to consider and keep looking in to it for next year __________________ So Many Tomatoes ...So Little Time !

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salix Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: north central B.C. Posts: 2,310	Mischka, I got mine from DoubleHelix, one of our members. Reasonable price, too. Am very much looking forward to seeing these beauties; it is later than my usual corn, and the temperatures have been dropping very close to freezing this past week. __________________ "He who has a library and a garden wants for nothing." -Cicero

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ChrisK Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 1,448	Next year I am planning a plot of Painted Hill sweet corn. Not as pretty as the Glass Gem but more interesting than white or yellow! __________________ Blog: chriskafer.wordpress.com Ignorance more frequently begets knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. --Charles Darwin

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Tracydr Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2011 Location: Laurinburg, North Carolina, zone 7 Posts: 3,207	So pretty!

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joseph Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: Cache Valley, N/E of The Great Salt Lake Posts: 1,244	In my garden glass gem is not a popcorn. Only about 10% of the kernels pop, and those that do are iffy.