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'Checkered Choice' Corn
 
Sub-Category: Sugar-enhanced (se)
Early Season
Bi-color
 
Sub-Category 2:
Description: Hybrid, early-season, sugar-enhanced (se), bicolor corn with 10-inch ears with 14 to 16 rows of kernels. 4 1/2-foot plants.
Days To Maturity: 62
Seed Sources:
 
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Overall: (2.0 Stars)Overall
Taste: (5.0 Stars)Taste
Yield: (2.0 Stars)Yield
Ease/Reliability: (2.0 Stars)Ease/Reliability
 
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Reviewed on 09/15/2006 by Chuopic - An intermediate gardener

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Jefferson, Louisiana, United States
Frost Free Season: More than 203 days
Soil Texture: Sand
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day

My negative review is soley based on the fact that this like most early classed varieties require a long day environment to do well. Living at the 29th parallel the cobs were very stunted and between that and the unusually early onset of our high heat (mid 90's in late May) the yield was far from satisfactory, but what was there was fantastic. The vendor did not bother to point out this caveat in their literature. They seem to have no concept of the effects of so Southern a latitude or the degree of our heat. Their recommendation for the next year was just as disasterous it too was an "early" variety.
 




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