Tags: Heirloom Open Pollinated
Growing Practices: No Pesticides No Herbicides No Fungicides No Synthetic Fertilizers
Latin Name: Zea mays
Days to Maturity: 85-95
Description:
Roy's Calais Flint Corn is an heirloom variety named for Roy Fair of North Calais, Vermont who grew it in the 1930's and later passed the seed to others. It grows to 6 or 7 feet tall and has ears up to 10 inches or longer. The ears are solid colors of yellow, orange or red to dark maroon. It can be made into grits, cornbread or polenta.
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This is Dave Christensen, heirloom corn breeder. I developed Painted Mountain Corn 51 years ago. That is the corn from which Carol Deppe took most of her genetics.
I think that Calais flint is very valuable, and over the years I have been trying to encourage people maintain it so it doesn't lose what little genetic diversity it has; so it recovers it's cylindrical 8-rowed ears, and so the plant architecture doesn't keep going downhill.
The ears in your display are awesome! I might buy a pack from you to do a little cross-breeding with.
QUESTION: Are the ears in this photo typical, or did you exclude a large number of off-types?
I would very much like to talk to you on the phone. Give me a call.
Your new friend,
Dave Christensen (406) 930-1663 buckskin@mtintouch.netAnswers 0
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This is Dave Christensen, heirloom corn breeder. I developed Painted Mountain Corn 51 years ago. That is the corn from which Carol Deppe took most of her genetics.
I think that Calais flint is very valuable, and over the years I have been trying to encourage people maintain it so it doesn't lose what little genetic diversity it has; so it recovers it's cylindrical 8-rowed ears, and so the plant architecture doesn't keep going downhill.
The ears in your display are awesome! I might buy a pack from you to do a little cross-breeding with.
QUESTION: Are the ears in this photo typical, or did you exclude a large number of off-types?
I would very much like to talk to you on the phone. Give me a call.
Your new friend,
Dave Christensen (406) 930-1663 buckskin@mtintouch.netAnswers 1
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The ears in the photo are selected ears. I will call you.
Posted by wayne marshall on 02/21/2022
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Banbury Farm
Buhl, ID,
United States (Zone 6B)
Established in 1980
27.00
acres in production
