Hello all HIVE friends in this community. Today I want to share my experience of learning to plant corn and the series of care for it until it produces perfect fruit. Because maybe you will think that planting corn is easy, but there are many things that you have to pay attention to and it is not easy to carry out, all the activities seem easy, but after carrying them out there will be obstacles that we encounter on the way to a perfect harvest. Actually, I have already done this. planting corn, but the obstacle when I planted corn was that when I harvested the corn it couldn't be big, the trees were thin and many of the corn kernels were toothless, even though I had tried my best to care for the corn, starting from watering, fertilizing to using pest poison, it would But my harvest results did not match expectations.
Therefore, I am very grateful that now I have a new house next to my house is a corn field and vegetable field. For vegetables, I'm starting to know the strategy, but for corn I don't know yet. But all the information I wanted to know didn't all go smoothly and according to my expectations because it seemed like my neighbor was a little unwilling to be open to providing the information I wanted to know. In the end, I just fished a little every day so that I could gather all the information I wanted.
My first mistake when I failed was, I took corn seeds from other old corn and I dried them, because now it's all a game of genetics, the corn will grow well, the trees will be fertile and have lots of fruit for just one planting, if we want to. Replanting it with seeds from old fruit that has already been harvested will not work. Then the period of time I fertilize is also irregular. If you want it to be successful, 1 month after the corn grows, it must be fertilized with UREA and NPK fertilizer which functions as leaf fertilizer and fruit fertilizer, so that the corn tree grows well and the fruit is not toothless.
My neighbor's corn is of the two-cob type, which means one tree can produce 2 or three cobs of corn. And after 1.5 months - 2 months the young corn can be harvested and sold as vegetables, and the price is also quite expensive, and one ear will be left to grow and reach its harvest time.
That was my learning process and hopefully I can get additional information from those of you in this community to enrich my knowledge and I will put it into practice in the future. Of course, I hope my corn kernels are not toothless and the kernels are densely filled. Greetings TomiDiwirja from, Indonesia