How to grow fruit corn?

How to grow fruit corn? Please guide the fruit corn is a kind of sweet corn suitable for eating raw. Compared with the general sweet corn, its main characteristics are thin skin, juicy, crisp and sweet. It can be eaten raw or cooked. There is no essential difference between fruit corn and sweet corn, general sweet corn can be eaten raw, but there are advantages and disadvantages in taste, and those with good taste are regarded as fruit corn, so there is no special fruit corn variety in cultivation. At present, the main sweet corn varieties suitable for fruit corn are Super Sweet 2018 of Dongyang Corn Institute, Gold and Silver Honey crisp of Ningbo seed Company and Zhejiang Fengqi Agricultural products Co., Ltd. Zhejiang Fengqi Agricultural products Co., Ltd. The cultivation of fruit corn is similar to sweet corn, generally mainly grasp the following points: 1, isolation planting, sowing in stages. In order to prevent the loss of quality with other types of corn, it is necessary to plant in isolation. Can be in the planting spacing (more than 300 meters), florescence (more than 30 days) on the isolation, can also use hills, forests, houses and other barriers to isolation. The suitable picking period of fruit and corn is short, and it is difficult to keep fresh. Sowing by stages can realize picking and listing in batches. Fruit corn can be sowed from the end of March to early August, and those with heat preservation facilities in early spring can be brought forward appropriately, but sowing between late May and mid-June should be avoided. The flowering and pollination period of corn sown in this period is in the summer drought of July and August, which is easy to cause baldness, lack of grains or empty culms. 2. Prepare the soil carefully and accelerate the budding and sowing. Planting fruit and corn should prepare the soil as carefully as growing vegetables, and it is appropriate to choose sandy loam or loam fields with high soil fertility and sufficient fertilizer and water. Fruit corn seed wrinkled, endosperm small, germination rate is low, seedling potential is weak, in order to strive for seedling, seedling whole, seedling strong, whether it is direct seeding or seedling transplanting, it is best to promote germination and sowing. 3. Reasonable close planting and scientific fertilization. The leaves of fruit corn are spreading, the plant type is loose, and the suitable density is 3500 to 4000 plants per mu. Fertilization should be suitable for the application of base fertilizer, early application of seedling fertilizer, heavy application of panicle fertilizer, combined application of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, and advocate the application of organic fertilizer. The total amount of chemical fertilizer in medium fertility fields is controlled at about 15 kg of pure nitrogen, 6 kg of phosphorus (P2O5) and 6 kg of potassium (K2O). 4. fine management and timely harvest. Fruit corn grows weakly in seedling stage and is vulnerable to insect pests in the later stage, so field management should be done well. It is mainly to check seedling deficiency and weed control after emergence, remove tillers and redundant spikelets in seedling stage and middle stage, and pay attention to the control of corn borer and other pests in the middle and later stage. The picking time of fruit corn is about 3 days earlier than that of ordinary sweet corn. after receiving about 20% of the flour, the best picking time can be grasped in time according to the silk color and field taste. Click to get more corn planting techniques click to get more food crop planting techniques