Growing Sweet corn, also corn,maize

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30 Dec 09 DD (Australia - cool/mountain climate)
1st time growing corn and have just walked out and picked 8 cobs for NY eve night. Tassles dried down to the cob sheath. Some of my plants are only 1m upto 1.5m. About 12 in total. I have cobs of varing size and most are carrying missed kernels. Up to 50% of cob. Im putting this down to missed germination or the 40c heat wave for that week in early Dec. All taste fantastically sweet. Have left stalks in and have noticed some side shoots starting to go to run to flower only 0.5m from the ground. Will let it go and see what results. Enjoying the experiment who cares if they are small its still a feed. Cheers and happy NY D :)
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