{"id":65,"date":"2008-07-23T21:23:57","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T07:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washedashore.com\/eggsntea\/?p=65"},"modified":"2010-10-25T19:50:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T05:50:38","slug":"popcorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/07\/popcorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At one point last year, Deb brought home a packet of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedsofchange.com\/\">Seeds of Change<\/a> Japanese White Hulless Popcorn.\u00a0 I planted it in the upper &#8216;experimental&#8217; garden area in spring, and just harvested today, at 4 months later.\u00a0 The catalog says [4-5&#8242; tall, 3-6 4&#8243; ears per plant, 95-105 days].\u00a0 Mine grew to 5-6&#8242;, but had only 1-2 ears per plant after 120 days:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Farm2008\/photo#5226468279558970946\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/bdiscoe\/SIglNZD1nkI\/AAAAAAAAAmg\/y6H18giO28c\/s288\/DSC00024.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did plant them a bit close, and this soil is unknown (first time planting in this new garden area), so any number of things could explain the low ear count.\u00a0 On 30 stalks, i got only 35 usable ears.\u00a0 Despite the small planting, pollination was very good, and it&#8217;s quite pretty:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Farm2008\/photo#5226468254115470834\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/bdiscoe\/SIglL6RonfI\/AAAAAAAAAmY\/fi2QB2cfBWY\/s288\/DSC00023.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here they are with only one row left to harvest.\u00a0 Note the narrow bed, surrounded by peanuts and taro and yacon:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/bdiscoe\/Farm2008\/photo#5226468331486630098\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/bdiscoe\/SIglQagW0NI\/AAAAAAAAAmo\/a_vpa-7T8Pc\/s288\/DSC00026.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure whether to husk them or not before drying them, so i went ahead and husked them and put them in an open container in the greenhouse, probably the most sunny\/dry place we have on the farm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one point last year, Deb brought home a packet of Seeds of Change Japanese White Hulless Popcorn.\u00a0 I planted it in the upper &#8216;experimental&#8217; garden area in spring, and just harvested today, at 4 months later.\u00a0 The catalog says &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/2008\/07\/popcorn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crops","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ahualoa.net\/eggsntea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}