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wclawrence

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It is too late for me to do this, this year; But next year I want to plant some blue corn and some red corn and cross-pollinate it, to see what I get.
Does anyone know whether I would get a purplish corn or would I get ears with both blue and red kernels?

I know the best way to do it is to remove the tops from my seed corn, allowing only the other variety to pollinate. Any other tips?

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Are the blue and red corn varieties that you have hybrids or open-pollinated?

You would need to make sure that both varieties are OP since this would make a huge difference in what happens.

I would assume that this would probably make a bi-colored corn variety because when other different colored varieties are planted together they tend to make a multi-colored variety. Or at least IME. Even though they are multi-colored they hues do tend to change a bit.

Experiment and see what happens.

Good luck
 

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That's been my experience, also.

If you'd like to get some pretty ears, and also have them be useful, you could try Painted Mountain variety.

I get ears which are many colored, black and white, all deep wine, wine and black, cranberry etc. They are truly beautiful to look at. :)
 
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