I would love it if Baker Creek would put together a history of corn seed mix. Imagine a large seed packet with a sampling of all of your available varieties.
@@dutchbanderlindt4227 I wonder how growers keep multiple heirlooms going. Read seeds are only viable for 3 years and that corn is prone to inbreeding and stuff. I read in a book that to avoid this, when starting, you save like 20 cobs per 100, then split that into 3 portions, grow from pack 1, save back to that, grow pack 2, etc. Then on the 3rd year you mix all the saved seeds together. And that's just one variety.
@@nunyabiznes33 nice, that sound right breeding done right is an extensive process. Im not sure about read seeds but i can speak for old heirloom seeds saved by old timers, my grandpa just gave me a several sacks full of old heirlooms that are not available anymore such as the old rugged red ripper, there is a new variety but this is supposed to be the “original”. More such as pencil cob, strawberry maize, dixie lee, willow leaf limas, to name a few. Some of these seeds were purchased in 2004! Still viable at a 10/12 ratio! Many of them such as the red ripper have been off the shelves for many decades and are only accessible through old time folks who kept up with the seed.
One of the best theories of how we started using the seed from teocinte was actually beer and other fermented beverages because it makes terrible tortillas but it makes great beer. Another interesting thing that I’ve heard is that Pod corn is actually a mutation that causes husk to grow around each kernel and it can actually occur in any corn varieties.
It's nice to see your love for life. The importance of seeds...and the Fruits of Life that we each eat each day... Sow much more to life then what most people get to see..
That was SO awesome even though it is two years later! I had NO idea about the types of corn there are because I never thought I could grow it myself. NOW I would give it a try AND Matt Powers is so inspiring that I just loved to watch him! LOL!
Black sweet corn …hmmmmm eat that on your first date with someone! I cut corn off the cob before eating as I had braces as a kid and just never quit so On my first date with somebody eating black corn I wouldn’t have it stuck in my teeth!
Thanks for the informative video!!!Plant corn when the moon is full, and the harvest of the corn is not at the time the corn boer worm is hatching! We avoid all worms that way !!
A very old way to deal with corn ear worms is to cover the ears as soon as the corn silks are pollenated. Covered with burlap or socks. I used unused pantyhose once and it worked very well, but it is a challenge on timing to get full pollenation before the worms show up. I also interplanted garlic, thyme, and rosemary and this worked very well too. The bugs couldn't detect the scent of the young corn with the aromatic herbs interplanted. I just left the herbs in until after the corn harvest and it was fine, but this does take alot of herbs to be effective. About 2 or 3 plants of each herb per corn stalk planted about 18 inches from the corn in a ribbon beside the tall stalks. It is extra work and the garlic keeps the mice away too as a bonus. Someday I will add citrus scented marigolds to the aromatic herbs for some more natural protection from nematodes. Marigolds need to be 6 feet apart or the effect is too strong for the crops. These herbs are superb for keeping worms out of potatoes and all root crops too. Happy planting!
So I received my catalog today like a lot of others! & so as soon as I finished ordering again from Baker Creek I find out that I missed another very informative live stream! Oh well, I still ordered 3 varieties of corn lol. (Thanks for the info, learned a lot!)
I'm a Shawnee from Oklahoma and my family still has our Indian corn from who knows when. It's old though. I wonder what types of corn it is. When we harvest it, half of the crop, might have kernels that are mostly white with some blue, and the other half mostly blue with a few white kernels and sometimes a single red kernel or two maybe. I have seen some mostly white ears of corn in our harvest that have red kernels sprinkled through it. The red kernels are pretty rare though as far as I've noticed.
I'd love to learn more about that! My great great grandfather walked the trail of tears with my great grandmother as a baby, and fled the reservation not long after leaving behind whatever could have been a family variety. So I'm researching varieties to make something of my own for my family
Man, I love chicha morada (purple corn drink) Summer iced cold drink with lemon, brown sugar and some Fresh diced apple on top...refreshing. Great video amigo, thank you.
I too vote for squash. Particularly pest control. I've heard some cultivars are more susceptible than others. ? I think in my area growing squash in the fall might be best for vine borer control. I tried it for the first time this year with great success & I'll do that again next year and see if I get the same results. Thanks for the great educational video Matt.
I would love to know more about flour corn being more easily digestible and can't find anything on the internet about it. My mom has a sensitivity to corn but loves eating corn on the cob. If we can still eat flour corn varieties like we would eat sweet corn, would it work better for her?
Two questions: 1. Can One eat any type interchangeably or is one type of corn not useful for other things like flour corn being boiled? 2. How to harvest seed when multiple varieties grow together and cross polinate so varieties are not mixed?
1. you can, but a flour corn, wont generally be suited to fresh eating or as a popped corn, or a popcorn being used for other purposes. some varieties are multipurpose. 2. if not isolating by distance or barriers like greenhouses, you will need to had pollinate and bag your tassels!
I wanted to grow BABY corn ... the type that is in cans. After doing just a little bit of research, the plants do not grow nearly as tall as normal corn plants. But after sending an email to a well known seed company I was informed that 90% of baby corn is grown in indonesia and area .. and so it is really a tropical type of corn. So, if anybody knows if baby corn can be grown in not so warm areas of USA and Canada, ... please comment.
For varieties you no longer sell, do you or have you considered storing them for long-term conditions to reintroduce? I understand most of your seed comes from others growing it out, but it would be useful to prevent its loss when one guy stops growing it. An interested farmer may come along a few years later and a sample of the stored seed could be given to be grown out again.
Most of your corn will just breed with itself if it’s on the other side of the garden or house, but if you want it pure a few hundred OR you could bag the tassles and hairs and pollinate the plants you want when the tassles let off their pollen by putting a bag from one plant on the hairs of an ear on another.
I just got these atomic orange corn seeds from you before they ran out!!! Could you tell me if they are edible? I am not sure what a soft flint corn is....Does it taste good? Like store corn? I just planted them today..super excited for this! I enjoyed this video
@@RareSeedsBC What are grits??? J/k..thanks for reply, I guess if i pick it earlier, it might taste decent though less sweet, I will try. Now when you use it for the cornmeal, grits..do you wait till it dries on plant? First year growing corn, it looks absolutely amazing! You should definitely do a video on this and the other colorful corns. The history lesson was amazing. Watched the whole thing.
Matt is the coolest seed guy dude I’ve ever seen on TH-cam! I would love to trial seeds, I live in Zone 9a Southern California. Soon to be moving to my mini farm/ surf shack dream home Coastal Oregon. If I can volunteer for seed trials please get in touch. I’m an avid customer.
Just getting started on growing corn, what corn is used for making tortillas, I’ve tried looking for Mexican corn, but couldn’t find any, so I don’t know its actual name of the corn
I need a great variety to produce Corn Smut. I'm located in southern Minnesota. What could be te best (or one of the best) for such purpose? I grow Native Mexican varieties, but most of them are sierra, so not really the ideal types for Minnesota's low altitude and short summers.
I was born in Colombia living in Southern California and would like to grow the peruvian corn in my backyard as a new gardener, kindly let me know how I can orden it?
I realize this is an older video but I'd love to know if any of the seeds you've GMO tested have come back positive. There is talk going around on how seeds advertising that they are non-gmo is pointless. What are your thoughts on this?
When it comes to GMO testing, its only really a necessity for corn right now (this could change in the future if/when other GMO crop types become more widely developed and grown.) Heirloom corn farmers producing for seed know the risks of cross pollination even when GMO contamination is not in question. so most do a good job of making sure they are either isolated by distance, barriers or by hand pollinating and bagging tassells. With that being said there have been a couple cases of seed batches/growouts being contaminated.
@@RareSeedsBC Thank you for this response! This was very helpful. 🌱 I'm glad people are talking about it but I think there's more to the discussion that's being left out. I will always look for non-gmo corn now!
I would like to see a variety that mixes all the rest with the largest variety of corn colors and shapes on the same ear, with the most different variety of shapes of ears in the same field. What is the largest amount of genetic corn diversity you can get at one time?
I bought the big horse spotted Corn in 2018 and 2020 (I wanted extra in case of misadventure) We have good geographical isolation in our valley .. in North East Oklahoma. So .. I planted traditional Osage corn on land that Traditionally belonged to the Osage .. and it does really well here. Since it is no longer in the Baker Creek catalog, I've started selling it .. at 2018 prices. An interesting note about the occasional speckled red ears that this variety produces: they dry up like flour corn, but are still sweet once they have dried. We save up ours, and mix it in 1/6 with normal Big Horse corn, to keep the genetics refreshed.
hey i live in louisiana and i order one of the barker creek heirloom seed catalog of 2017 and i wonder if next year lower the price on easy ones to grow and please put them in abc oder ...
I've grown virtually every type... now I want to grow every variety... except GMO stuff of course... but we know that GMO isnt actually corn... :) Great video... and I've ordered from you guys in the past. A fantastic seed company! Dakota... I have that... nice stuff! th-cam.com/video/vvR7CLuEYIo/w-d-xo.html and my Hopi Blue Flour Corn: th-cam.com/video/GlnzVWbd5Pc/w-d-xo.html I love what you say about feeling privileged to have these rarer corn types.. It's nice to be a steward of good genetics and to be carrying forward thousands of years of sustenance.
There are a lot of inconsistencies and contradictions included in your presentation that will, no doubt, be challenged, but the most glaring lack of information was the lack of coverage of what is commonly called feed corn. Anyway, still interesting.
We all love vegetable varieties, but these corn varieties could save the planet. You know what I’m talking about. Keep it up. I do like my F1 hybrid corn and other varieties for their sweetness and taste, but I still love and purchase from your store. I wish you’d switch to selling more open pollinated non heirlooms because the newer varieties are just as important.
Matthew Niedbala no theyr not. they can be developed in a lab any time.. thats the dumbest comment could be made on this channel.go visit the pioneer see company page
GOD created all kinds of corn, in the beginning. We aren't gaining types of plants, we're losing them. Entropy. Hence the title rare seeds. Extinct animals... We started in the garden, GOD is teaching all who will, to walk with him in the garden again.
The red-white-'n'-blue at 8m30s - 8m40s doesn't convince me since I'm not a United Statian. Moreover, as a European I feel sorry for the British, they lost America. What convinces me is schwarz-rot-gold as shown at 20m52s. I need to show this picture to everyone on 3rd of october.
I feel like I'm back in High School and the stoner is trying to explain something to the class. Lmao...Great seeds though...I actually purchased way more than usual but not cause of this episode. Lol.
I would love it if Baker Creek would put together a history of corn seed mix. Imagine a large seed packet with a sampling of all of your available varieties.
sign me up for that lol
Wouldn't they end up just hybridizing if you grow them as a mix and then they won't grow true to seed next season?
@@nunyabiznes33 thats what went through my brain
@@dutchbanderlindt4227 I wonder how growers keep multiple heirlooms going. Read seeds are only viable for 3 years and that corn is prone to inbreeding and stuff.
I read in a book that to avoid this, when starting, you save like 20 cobs per 100, then split that into 3 portions, grow from pack 1, save back to that, grow pack 2, etc. Then on the 3rd year you mix all the saved seeds together. And that's just one variety.
@@nunyabiznes33 nice, that sound right breeding done right is an extensive process. Im not sure about read seeds but i can speak for old heirloom seeds saved by old timers, my grandpa just gave me a several sacks full of old heirlooms that are not available anymore such as the old rugged red ripper, there is a new variety but this is supposed to be the “original”. More such as pencil cob, strawberry maize, dixie lee, willow leaf limas, to name a few. Some of these seeds were purchased in 2004! Still viable at a 10/12 ratio! Many of them such as the red ripper have been off the shelves for many decades and are only accessible through old time folks who kept up with the seed.
My pod corn will be celebrating 30 years in my care this year
Do you exchange seed with other gardeners?
One of the best theories of how we started using the seed from teocinte was actually beer and other fermented beverages because it makes terrible tortillas but it makes great beer. Another interesting thing that I’ve heard is that Pod corn is actually a mutation that causes husk to grow around each kernel and it can actually occur in any corn varieties.
It's nice to see your love for life. The importance of seeds...and the Fruits of Life that we each eat each day... Sow much more to life then what most people get to see..
That was SO awesome even though it is two years later! I had NO idea about the types of corn there are because I never thought I could grow it myself. NOW I would give it a try AND Matt Powers is so inspiring that I just loved to watch him! LOL!
He is pretty darn cute…..I may just put this video on loop tonight!🤣😁
Your wife? Boo hoo…im jeleous!😬😁😁🤣
Black sweet corn …hmmmmm eat that on your first date with someone! I cut corn off the cob before eating as I had braces as a kid and just never quit so On my first date with somebody eating black corn I wouldn’t have it stuck in my teeth!
6a is michigan I think
In Michigan just about every ear of corn will have a corn borer worm in the end…. U just cut off the top as they are usually just by the tip….no biggy
The Peruvian corn looks beautiful!
i'm a professional photographer, and have been buying your seed for years.
will trade photos for seeds
(just sayin') :)
thanks for all the great work.
Thanks for the informative video!!!Plant corn when the moon is full, and the harvest of the corn is not at the time the corn boer worm is hatching! We avoid all worms that way !!
A very old way to deal with corn ear worms is to cover the ears as soon as the corn silks are pollenated. Covered with burlap or socks. I used unused pantyhose once and it worked very well, but it is a challenge on timing to get full pollenation before the worms show up. I also interplanted garlic, thyme, and rosemary and this worked very well too. The bugs couldn't detect the scent of the young corn with the aromatic herbs interplanted. I just left the herbs in until after the corn harvest and it was fine, but this does take alot of herbs to be effective. About 2 or 3 plants of each herb per corn stalk planted about 18 inches from the corn in a ribbon beside the tall stalks. It is extra work and the garlic keeps the mice away too as a bonus. Someday I will add citrus scented marigolds to the aromatic herbs for some more natural protection from nematodes. Marigolds need to be 6 feet apart or the effect is too strong for the crops. These herbs are superb for keeping worms out of potatoes and all root crops too. Happy planting!
I hopped onto the corn train too late to get papa's corn. I do wish it was brought back
So I received my catalog today like a lot of others! & so as soon as I finished ordering again from Baker Creek I find out that I missed another very informative live stream! Oh well, I still ordered 3 varieties of corn lol. (Thanks for the info, learned a lot!)
I love how you are so excited about seeds! :-D
I am looking for the old type of corn we grew in the 1950s It had four or more ears on a stock ,the yellow type
I'm a Shawnee from Oklahoma and my family still has our Indian corn from who knows when. It's old though. I wonder what types of corn it is. When we harvest it, half of the crop, might have kernels that are mostly white with some blue, and the other half mostly blue with a few white kernels and sometimes a single red kernel or two maybe. I have seen some mostly white ears of corn in our harvest that have red kernels sprinkled through it. The red kernels are pretty rare though as far as I've noticed.
I'd love to learn more about that! My great great grandfather walked the trail of tears with my great grandmother as a baby, and fled the reservation not long after leaving behind whatever could have been a family variety. So I'm researching varieties to make something of my own for my family
Howdy, really love your informative videos.
I got some Hopi turquoise corn from these guys. It's absolutely gorgeous! I posted a short showing it last month
Man, I love chicha morada (purple corn drink) Summer iced cold drink with lemon, brown sugar and some Fresh diced apple on top...refreshing. Great video amigo, thank you.
I too vote for squash. Particularly pest control. I've heard some cultivars are more susceptible than others. ? I think in my area growing squash in the fall might be best for vine borer control. I tried it for the first time this year with great success & I'll do that again next year and see if I get the same results. Thanks for the great educational video Matt.
This is a great, informative video. I enjoyed learning all this about corn.
Best corn video ever! Thank you.
Beautiful corn! I have never grown corn before, you're pretty convincing Matt :)
Korn is a numetal band out of Bakersfield CA.
Love these videos. Am learning so much !!! So exciting
I totally love this video and your catalog.
I would love to know more about flour corn being more easily digestible and can't find anything on the internet about it. My mom has a sensitivity to corn but loves eating corn on the cob. If we can still eat flour corn varieties like we would eat sweet corn, would it work better for her?
Two questions:
1. Can One eat any type interchangeably or is one type of corn not useful for other things like flour corn being boiled?
2. How to harvest seed when multiple varieties grow together and cross polinate so varieties are not mixed?
1. you can, but a flour corn, wont generally be suited to fresh eating or as a popped corn, or a popcorn being used for other purposes. some varieties are multipurpose.
2. if not isolating by distance or barriers like greenhouses, you will need to had pollinate and bag your tassels!
I wanted to grow BABY corn ... the type that is in cans. After doing just a little bit of research, the plants do not grow nearly as tall as normal corn plants. But after sending an email to a well known seed company I was informed that 90% of baby corn is grown in indonesia and area .. and so it is really a tropical type of corn. So, if anybody knows if baby corn can be grown in not so warm areas of USA and Canada, ... please comment.
Teosinte is Nahuatl for "grain of the Gods". Teonanacatl is Nahuatl for "food of the Gods" and refers to psilocybin mushrooms.
You stated they juiced the stalk initially before going for the grain. What did people use the fluid for? Thanks.
The juice is sweet and contains sugars and can be converted to syrups and alcohols.
@@RareSeedsBC that's awesome. One day I hope to get a crushing juicer to do things like this.
For varieties you no longer sell, do you or have you considered storing them for long-term conditions to reintroduce? I understand most of your seed comes from others growing it out, but it would be useful to prevent its loss when one guy stops growing it. An interested farmer may come along a few years later and a sample of the stored seed could be given to be grown out again.
Can you tell me how far apart do you need to plant different types of corn so they don't cross pollinate?
600 feet is recommended by the USDA... you can also plant them on offsets (time wise) 2 weeks minimum is recommended.
Most of your corn will just breed with itself if it’s on the other side of the garden or house, but if you want it pure a few hundred OR you could bag the tassles and hairs and pollinate the plants you want when the tassles let off their pollen by putting a bag from one plant on the hairs of an ear on another.
I just got these atomic orange corn seeds from you before they ran out!!! Could you tell me if they are edible? I am not sure what a soft flint corn is....Does it taste good? Like store corn? I just planted them today..super excited for this! I enjoyed this video
flint corns are best suited for being ground down into cornmeal, grits and the like!
@@RareSeedsBC What are grits??? J/k..thanks for reply, I guess if i pick it earlier, it might taste decent though less sweet, I will try. Now when you use it for the cornmeal, grits..do you wait till it dries on plant? First year growing corn, it looks absolutely amazing! You should definitely do a video on this and the other colorful corns. The history lesson was amazing. Watched the whole thing.
Matt is the coolest seed guy dude I’ve ever seen on TH-cam! I would love to trial seeds, I live in Zone 9a Southern California. Soon to be moving to my mini farm/ surf shack dream home Coastal Oregon. If I can volunteer for seed trials please get in touch. I’m an avid customer.
Just getting started on growing corn, what corn is used for making tortillas, I’ve tried looking for Mexican corn, but couldn’t find any, so I don’t know its actual name of the corn
I need a great variety to produce Corn Smut. I'm located in southern Minnesota. What could be te best (or one of the best) for such purpose?
I grow Native Mexican varieties, but most of them are sierra, so not really the ideal types for Minnesota's low altitude and short summers.
what are the nutrion content to some of these? can u share please?
I went to find Papa's and they don't have red or white listed as even an option and the blue is out for now? Who sells the Red and White? Thanks.
Apologies, we dont know of any current sellers right now :(
I was born in Colombia living in Southern California and would like to grow the peruvian corn in my backyard as a new gardener, kindly let me know how I can orden it?
Thanks for sharing!!!
I realize this is an older video but I'd love to know if any of the seeds you've GMO tested have come back positive. There is talk going around on how seeds advertising that they are non-gmo is pointless. What are your thoughts on this?
When it comes to GMO testing, its only really a necessity for corn right now (this could change in the future if/when other GMO crop types become more widely developed and grown.) Heirloom corn farmers producing for seed know the risks of cross pollination even when GMO contamination is not in question. so most do a good job of making sure they are either isolated by distance, barriers or by hand pollinating and bagging tassells. With that being said there have been a couple cases of seed batches/growouts being contaminated.
@@RareSeedsBC Thank you for this response! This was very helpful. 🌱 I'm glad people are talking about it but I think there's more to the discussion that's being left out. I will always look for non-gmo corn now!
Thank you!
Do they taste good? lick not super sticky either?
I would like to see a variety that mixes all the rest with the largest variety of corn colors and shapes on the same ear, with the most different variety of shapes of ears in the same field. What is the largest amount of genetic corn diversity you can get at one time?
I put castor oil on the tassel
Can we purchase glass gem corn from your company
We currently have Glass Gem Corn available for purchase at rareseeds.com.
I live in France and tried to sign up for a 2019 catalogue....don't you ship abroad? PS love your videos.
Good info 👍🏻
Than you so much for this info
mind blowing ! fantastic !
Is gem corn a sweet corn or??
no its a flint/popcorn type!
@@RareSeedsBC thank you!
Great vid, thank you for the information
There is a Chinese variety that's called sticky corn, not sure there is any in US.
What is it used for?
yay I love your seeds :)
This is why I love Baker Creek its non- Gmo and that means I will be able to eat foods without nastys in them.
I bought the big horse spotted Corn in 2018 and 2020 (I wanted extra in case of misadventure) We have good geographical isolation in our valley .. in North East Oklahoma. So .. I planted traditional Osage corn on land that Traditionally belonged to the Osage .. and it does really well here. Since it is no longer in the Baker Creek catalog, I've started selling it .. at 2018 prices. An interesting note about the occasional speckled red ears that this variety produces: they dry up like flour corn, but are still sweet once they have dried. We save up ours, and mix it in 1/6 with normal Big Horse corn, to keep the genetics refreshed.
hey i live in louisiana and i order one of the barker creek heirloom seed catalog of 2017 and i wonder if next year lower the price on easy ones to grow and please put them in abc oder ...
randy fish breeds I think the price of seeds is pretty good considering you know 100% that it's pure & not cross pollinated/GMO'd.
do you work there?
randy fish breeds no I don't! 🤣
ok was the question for you?
randy fish breeds. well the question popped up in my email box from you so....it would of been rude to ignore it.
such a nice fella
Very interesting and handsome too
Steve Smith? From american dad? Lmao
Peruvian just mix blue with yellow
Oh wow can I just say how cute you are lol
their is seven types... did you not know this? The 7th type is a mighty tree....called Acorn....MAU ha hahahahaaaaaaa
Most informative thing I found about this video was your comment
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I've grown virtually every type... now I want to grow every variety... except GMO stuff of course... but we know that GMO isnt actually corn... :)
Great video... and I've ordered from you guys in the past. A fantastic seed company!
Dakota... I have that... nice stuff! th-cam.com/video/vvR7CLuEYIo/w-d-xo.html
and my Hopi Blue Flour Corn: th-cam.com/video/GlnzVWbd5Pc/w-d-xo.html
I love what you say about feeling privileged to have these rarer corn types.. It's nice to be a steward of good genetics and to be carrying forward thousands of years of sustenance.
if we garden for the lord we might even not die vs the fake war
There are a lot of inconsistencies and contradictions included in your presentation that will, no doubt, be challenged, but the most glaring lack of information was the lack of coverage of what is commonly called feed corn. Anyway, still interesting.
We all love vegetable varieties, but these corn varieties could save the planet. You know what I’m talking about. Keep it up. I do like my F1 hybrid corn and other varieties for their sweetness and taste, but I still love and purchase from your store. I wish you’d switch to selling more open pollinated non heirlooms because the newer varieties are just as important.
Matthew Niedbala
no theyr not.
they can be developed in a lab any time..
thats the dumbest comment could be made on this channel.go visit the pioneer see company page
eh-loh-teh
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Your cute……probably sounds corny but oh shucks, I just say how I feel!
GOD created all kinds of corn, in the beginning. We aren't gaining types of plants, we're losing them. Entropy. Hence the title rare seeds. Extinct animals... We started in the garden, GOD is teaching all who will, to walk with him in the garden again.
The red-white-'n'-blue at 8m30s - 8m40s doesn't convince me since I'm not a United Statian. Moreover, as a European I feel sorry for the British, they lost America.
What convinces me is schwarz-rot-gold as shown at 20m52s. I need to show this picture to everyone on 3rd of october.
I feel like I'm back in High School and the stoner is trying to explain something to the class. Lmao...Great seeds though...I actually purchased way more than usual but not cause of this episode. Lol.