I love your determination. I hope you achieve your goal.
Since we are talking corn. I tried "Sugar dots" this year and it was fantastic!. I'm going to try a fall planting of it along with a earlier maturing variety. I think I'll have time for it to produce. I'm still learning so its nice to get something that works for me.

Mike

Cowdiddly,

It is great to hear about your progress in your corn-breeding project. It is so unfortunate that Monsanto Bt corn is growing within 3 miles of you, but I guess that is better than having it within a mile---or a half mile. If their Bt pollen gets into your corn, you know they won't come and get it. They'll sue you like they sued Percy Schmeiser. Our world is so messed up!

Keep us posted on how you're doing! Buhl's is the favorite corn of every critter everywhere that ever robbed corn from a corn patch, so when you use it in your breeding project, I hope it doesn't attract animals to your field to eat your corn.

Mike, Most any corn you want to grow will grow well here when planted at the right time. Our favorites are Country Gentleman and Texas Honey June, and my friend Fred generally grows Merit, G-90 or Silver Queen. I like all corn, but have found they're breeding so much sweetness into the newer ones that it is losing the old-timey corn flavor...so find that we like to have an older type for corn flavor and a newer type for the sweeter flavors. I grew Sugar Dots in my new back garden plot last spring and it did really well. I have noticed the corn earworms seem to like the sweeter ones more than the older, less sweet ones. That's not a scientific observation---but I've noticed a couple of times that Texas Honey June, which we think is a wonderful corn with real corn flavor, doesn't get nearly as many earworms as some of the newer supersweets and triplesweets.

Dawn