2025 field work

[NWICY]

2.1" of rain between between midnight and 1. Round 2 started 10 minutes ago. Looks like a round 3 later today. I guess my fieldwork in the rice paddies will get delayed again.
30 miles east of Ames.

Ugh.

 

[JEFF420]

It’s got great flavor. Cooking it is a bearcat. Yellow or bi-color you can see the slight color change. White sweet corn looks the same freshly picked to fully cooked.

some of these people will roast you for boiling ANY sweet corn for more than 30 secs.

 

[JEFF420]

Not a bad days work

 

[JEFF420]

Checking out a new pepper hybrid from us. 6 plant average of 20lbs of bells. $$$$$$$$

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

Would a plant like the be more likely to fall over with that many peppers hanging on it?

 

[BCClone]

Would a plant like the be more likely to fall over with that many peppers hanging on it?

Do your balls hang lower the heavier they get?

 

[JEFF420]

Would a plant like the be more likely to fall over with that many peppers hanging on it?

High input growers run stakes and twine for plant support. This is expensive (labor) but it can really pay for itself

 

[JEFF420]

Beautiful fruit.

 

[NWICY]

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Beautiful fruit.

Pics of the stake and twine system?

 

[JEFF420]

Pics of the stake and twine system?

When they get a bit taller. They will run the first twine. Connect at the end and wrap around each stake once. Usually will have 2-4 twine lines as the plant grows

 

[NWICY]

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When they get a bit taller. They will run the first twine. Connect at the end and wrap around each stake once. Usually will have 2-4 twine lines as the plant grows

Thanks for teaching us!

 

[BCClone]

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When they get a bit taller. They will run the first twine. Connect at the end and wrap around each stake once. Usually will have 2-4 twine lines as the plant grows

That’s a lot sandier soil than NC Iowa.

 

[Sparkplug]

As a seed company employee who handled it often it went from “safe as table salt” to a carcinogen and banished from use overnight. Never believe the “common knowledge“ on chemical safety. You can’t believe the makers to know or to level with anyone truthfully.

Captan was a major product for Stauffer Chemical especially in California and the fruit and nuts groves.

Stauffer also had Sutan, Dyfonate and Eradacane. Their plastics division created what is now known as Roundup but thought it was too hot of a product and didn’t think it would ever be approved by the EPA so they sold it to Monsanto

 

[Turn2]

Captan was a major product for Stauffer Chemical especially in California and the fruit and nuts groves.

Stauffer also had Sutan, Dyfonate and Eradacane. Their plastics division created what is now known as Roundup but thought it was too hot of a product and didn’t think it would ever be approved by the EPA so they sold it to Monsanto

I'll never forget the pungent garlic-like smell of Sutan+ and Eradicane. Driving across Southern Minnesota at planting time back in the day you could pick out every field where it was being incorporated just by the aroma.

 

[JEFF420]

Was trial harvest day in Southern Indiana.... not a bad way to head home. 20 cherry picked from the best. Most of these melons won't be advanced due to thin blossom end rind thickness (can't ship without breaking) or general color (not dark enough)... 50 some trials

 

[wxman1]

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Was trial harvest day in Southern Indiana.... not a bad way to head home. 20 cherry picked from the best. Most of these melons won't be advanced due to thin blossom end rind thickness (can't ship without breaking) or general color (not dark enough)... 50 some trials

Is this kind of like the "oh darn it doesn't pass...." kind of thing you get to benefit from?

 

[JEFF420]

Is this kind of like the "oh darn it doesn't pass...." kind of thing you get to benefit from?

maybe.... and sweet corn, bell peppers, hot peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and carrots.... IF I COULD JUST GET MY WIFE TO CAN

 

[Cyched]

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Was trial harvest day in Southern Indiana.... not a bad way to head home. 20 cherry picked from the best. Most of these melons won't be advanced due to thin blossom end rind thickness (can't ship without breaking) or general color (not dark enough)... 50 some trials

Nice melons

 

[JEFF420]

I could also very well learn canning and food preservation myself. Apologies

 

[cycloner29]

Put up 37 quarts of sweet corn yesterday and 20 pints of salsa tonight. The next batch of tomatoes will be for marinara sauce. Grew the basil for it too.