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| Don't look at me like that. I know I'm weird, and by now you should now that June is when we begin to figure out what we're doing for our Halloween event. So I need about eighty stalks. Dead but intact. I found one field out here but the house is creepy and I think I heard a banjo playing. Who wants to ship me a bundle of dead corn stalks?
Anyone? Anyone at all.... No, please don't send the men in white coats...
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Corn would be a veritable nightmare to ship. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I shipped a box of cotton stalks to someone last year and that was bad enough. I never heard from her after she opened the box, so they probably didn't ship well.  |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| Yeah, shipping the corn would be a mess. I just don't want to randomly go up to a farmer asking for anything. LOL. I wonder if they could be made from tamale husk glued to sticks. ?? |
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Location: LuluLand~along I64 Indiana | how bout you till up a little plot... drop some seed and eat a few ears then you will have your own stalks... its a twofer deal |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| luluwhit - 2016-06-11 1:44 PM how bout you till up a little plot... drop some seed and eat a few ears then you will have your own stalks... its a twofer deal
I would in a heart beat! But the ground out here is like cement. Then there are the critters, rabbits, kafuffelles, snakes, dogs, horses. I tried having tomato plants and pumkin plants and the darn animals ate it all. Even with it fenced in. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | RidenFly - 2016-06-10 3:44 PM Yeah, shipping the corn would be a mess. I just don't want to randomly go up to a farmer asking for anything. LOL. I wonder if they could be made from tamale husk glued to sticks. ??
You might be surprised at how often we get these kinds of requests.  Do they have corn farmers in AZ? |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Google Corn stalks for sale and you will find them for sale over the internet, you can get them in bundles.. |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| Southtxponygirl - 2016-06-11 2:27 PM Google Corn stalks for sale and you will find them for sale over the internet, you can get them in bundles..
Nah uh. Okay... a hunting I will go.. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | luluwhit - 2016-06-10 3:44 PM
how bout you till up a little plot... drop some seed and eat a few ears then you will have your own stalks... its a twofer deal
Too late in the year.... In ten days the days start becoming shorter.... This is the trigger that cues plants to start seeding out...
Edited by komet. 2016-06-11 2:39 PM
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | komet. - 2016-06-11 1:30 PM luluwhit - 2016-06-10 3:44 PM how bout you till up a little plot... drop some seed and eat a few ears then you will have your own stalks... its a twofer deal Too late in the year.... In ten days the days start becoming shorter.... This is the trigger that cues plants to start seeding out...
Mmmmm, no. Not the way that works. The plants have their own maturity rhythms determined by genetics. You could plant 90 day corn right now and have stalks and ears by October. My son planted some seed in August he found on the ground after harvest one year and got a couple of ears before frost killed it. We routinely plant soybeans in late June/early July when double cropping with wheat, we just plant a faster maturing variety.
Our corn is tasseling right now, further south it's silking, and further north it might be knee high. |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| Good grief. Corn might be more valuable dead than alive. 12 stalks shipped is almost a hundred bucks. Seriously.
I wonder if I can find 90 corn at Lowes? LOL. Yes, Arizona is still growing corn.
I put my husband through so much shenanigans, I'm afraid of asking him to escort me to the farmer's house. Kind of like a start of a bad joke...
So this crazy lady and her husband knock on the farmer's door... |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | If you have a old trough laying around use it to plant some corn and maybe by October you'll have your corn stalks that you will need for your spook house  |
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| yes, corn matures by growing degree units and different varieties have different days to maturity. it is soybeans that respond more to length of day but also have different maturities as well :) technology and genetics is amazing. |
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Location: north dakota | We grow corn and if you hear of anyone shipping horses or traveling from eastern ND to your place this fall I could get some for you. |
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Hawty & Nawty
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| ndcowgirl - 2016-06-14 4:27 AM We grow corn and if you hear of anyone shipping horses or traveling from eastern ND to your place this fall I could get some for you.
Thank you! I will keep my EARS open. LOL |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | Riden keep me in mind also. I am in the heart of the corn belt here in Iowa. I am sure it would not be too hard to box up a shock of corn and UPS it too you. |
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