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Need help choosing sweet corn

18 years ago

I will be ordering my con from Fedco Seeds and here is the list of Sweet corn I have to choose from:

Spring Treat

Ashworth

Sugar Buns

Honey Treat

Bodacious

Golden Bantam(OP)

Incredible

Kandy Korn

Fleet

Ambrosia

Double Gem

Luscious

Lancelot

Bravado

Painted Hills

Spring Snow

Luther Hill

Silver Queen

I would like something sweet and yet with good corn flavor. If anyone has grown any of these I would like to hear a review.

thanks,

Dean

Comments (10)

  • 18 years ago

    The only ones on your list, that I have grown:
    Silver Queen - a late white corn that is the standard for the south. May be too long a season for your area. The first really good white corn and still a favorite. White corns are very populat here so so I grow Silver Knight, Silver Princess, Silver King and Silver Queen for a long term supply with out haveing to resort to succession planting.
    Lancelot - A bi-color that that did not do much for me. Probably better in the north.
    Luscious - a low shooting Bi-color that did notimpress me.
    Ambrosia - a decent bi-color, but there are many that do better for me.
    Kandy Korn - one of the top yellows.
    Golden Bantam. The favorite of the mid 20th century. For my money the best OP. Not competitive with the newer hybrids in taste or production.
    Bodacious- The yellow sister to Ambrosia. As with all the Crookham developed cultivars, good but not tops for me.

    Here is a link that might be useful: Corn ratings

  • 18 years ago

    You may also want to check out the Cornell site and get ratings from folks in your area.. See link below.

    Here is a link that might be useful: Cornell U - Vegetable Varieties (Corn)

  • 18 years ago

    I grew incredible this year, after a friend gave me some seed. It was incredible. Lovely.

    I also grew Kandy Korn. It two was nice. I didn't get much of either of them, because the deer and racoons also thought they were lovely, nice and incredible.

    Attractive plants, too and both varieties gave me two ears / stalk.

  • 18 years ago

    I like Incredible yellow. I would rate it a ½ cut above Bodacious or Kandy Korn.

    I have raised Ambrosia bi-color a lot and like it much better than Lucious.

  • 18 years ago

    I grow both Bodacious and Incredible, and am afraid to try anything else because they are both so incredibly sweet. I've been eating these 2 varieties since before they were available commercially - the seed corn companies used to give complimentary packets of sweet corn when seed corn was ordered. My dad first got both of these varieties this way (although I can't tell you anymore which company introduced either of them - probably Dekalb or Pioneer). Anyway, they are both amazing corn. Everyone I share it with says they can't hardly stand to eat anybody else's corn. In my opinion, Incredible is slightly sweeter for eating fresh, but Bodacious is better for freezing. The Incredible doesn't hold its flavor quite as well in the freezer (although it is still, well, incredible, even at that). They are both very very sweet. There is also a 10-day difference in maturity date, which makes it easy to get corn spaced out. The Incredible is an 85-day corn, and the Bodacious is 75-days. I plant it all at one time, and have automatically spaced harvest. Then plant more at 2-week intervals for a total of 3 plantings. As with all very sweet varieties, it takes a warm soil to germinate it, so you really can't plant much before May 20th or so in my area (near Omaha). I think I will try starting a few inside this year, though, just to have some fresh corn a little earlier. Somebody talked about that on a thread this summer. I had never considered doing that before.

  • 18 years ago

    Both Incredible and Bodacious are products of Crookham, which specializes in the development of sweet corn, popcorn and onions. Thier fresh market product line includes Earlivee, Sugar Buns, Miracle ( Yellow); Quickie*, Fleet, Trinity, Ambrosia*, Mystique, Delectable*, Honey and Cream (bi-colors); Venus, Frosty*,Argent* (white)
    * markes the ones that I have grown.

    Here is a link that might be useful: Crookham Company

  • 18 years ago

    I've grown Bodacious, Ambrosia, Kandy Corn, Incredible, Silver Queen, and Golden Bantam. Bantam is an early corn with smaller ears, great when you haven't had any corn for 10 months, but doesn't compare to the slightly later ones. Quit growing Silver Queen as it really didn't have much taste or sweetness here.

    Currently grow Ambrosia and Bodacious. Really liked Incredible, but can't find it around herelately. Ambrosia is really good and super sweet for fresh eating and lasts a long time before going starchy. Bodacious doesn't have quite the flavor, but is quite good and freezes well, so the Ambrosia goes straight into the mouth, the Bodacious goes into the freezer for the winter.

    Have planted the first week to the 10th of May when field corn is going in, but if the weather turns cool it sometimes doesn't germinate very well, plus I usually don't have any water to get the soil moist enough to get them up at that time of year. I plant around mid May, which is 1-2 weeks past the normal planting date for field corn. The sweet corn usually comes up with no problem as long as I get it good moisture to germinate. I'll plant a second crop in the second or third week of June to spread out the season. The first planting ripens sometime in mid to late August, the second crop comes on about two weeks later.

  • 18 years ago

    In the last 40 years, a lot of the varieties I have grown are no longer available. For the last 5 years I have grown only Honey Select (yellow) and Argent (white). The are full season corns and the harvest window is about 3 weeks.

  • 18 years ago

    I plan on ordering in the order below:

    Incredible
    Kandy Korn
    Bodacious

    Thank you all for your opinions.

    Dean

  • 17 years ago

    I know this thread is old but I agree with Honey Select! It was an All America Selections Winner too. If you eat it raw in the field, you may never boil the water for corn again! (face dripping with sugary juices)

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