A Seed Saver's Garden

[Pulsegleaner]

Yes, I was thinking about getting blue corn this year for similar nutritional reasons. I'll have to try that one next year!

There isn't much blue sweetcorn around. Red is a pericarp (skin) color, and shows up a lot earlier than aleurone color. By the time most colored sweetcorns "color up", they're no longer all that sweet.

The only pure blue sweetcorn I've ever heard of is Bellinham Blue, and I've never found that one for sale.

I suppose you could try Triple Play, plant only blue kernels, and hope the genes stacked over time.

Hooker's might be blue (or purple, can't remember which)

And there are some full rainbow around; Painted Hills (bred to color up quick, I think), Rainbow Inca (may not be totally stable; still throws non-sweet kernels from time to time,) Astronomy Dominae, Paiute, Cocopah, etc.

 

[flowerbug]

Double Red is a sweet corn for fresh eating, developed by Alan Kapuler. High in antioxidants, which makes me feel better about growing corn because that species doesn't have a great nutritional profile, lol.

sadly RIP, but with a nickname like Mushroom i was always hoping i'd get a chance to say hi to him at some point also because someone said he might have had some of Robert Lobitz's records... now i just have to make up stories in my own head.

 

[heirloomgal]

There isn't much blue sweetcorn around. Red is a pericarp (skin) color, and shows up a lot earlier than aleurone color. By the time most colored sweetcorns "color up", they're no longer all that sweet.

The only pure blue sweetcorn I've ever heard of is Bellinham Blue, and I've never found that one for sale.

I suppose you could try Triple Play, plant only blue kernels, and hope the genes stacked over time.

Hooker's might be blue (or purple, can't remember which)

And there are some full rainbow around; Painted Hills (bred to color up quick, I think), Rainbow Inca (may not be totally stable; still throws non-sweet kernels from time to time,) Astronomy Dominae, Paiute, Cocopah, etc.

I have 2 packets of Hooker's, maybe I'll grow it next year! I do love the colored sweet corns. I also really really want to grow Lofthouse's Astronomy Domine (spelling?). The seeds I bought for it were cruds. I have grown one sorta blue corn, kinda purple-blue I guess, called Blue Jade.

 

[heirloomgal]

sadly RIP, but with a nickname like Mushroom i was always hoping i'd get a chance to say hi to him at some point also because someone said he might have had some of Robert Lobitz's records... now i just have to make up stories in my own head.

The man did some seriously fine breeding work. Amazing stuff. I'm a huge fan too.