Sweet corn, what went wrong...?

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  1. pete

    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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    I'd not cut the male flowers off, as they release pollen over the space of a week or more, if you cut them off I have a feeling the pollen production will stop almost immediately.
    So any of the females that are not ready for fertilisation will miss out.
     
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