March 8th, 2010 • 03:03
How Long Does The Corn Plant Live After Harvesting The Corn?
When the corn plant has reached physiological maturity, and when the corn is harvested, how long after will it live? More importantly, can it still yield more corn?
Mar 8th 2010 • 04:03
by goofy
Corn is a annual plant that dies as soon as the ear of corn matures
Mar 8th 2010 • 04:03
by chris
when corn has fully matured it start to die and dry out and it is during that drying period that it is harvested what during the depend on what the corn is used for
Mar 8th 2010 • 06:03
by goldwing
Once the kernals of corn have reached full size within the ears, the plant begins to die…the plant does not need to be alive as the corn kernals dry. Corn is a single shot plant (annual) and will not produce another crop should you pick the ears as “sweet corn” (table corn). corn is technically an annual grass..
Mar 8th 2010 • 07:03
by Endurance over speed, me over u!
When the corn plant has reached physiological maturity, and when the corn is harvested, how long after will it live? More importantly, can it still yield more corn?
Mar 8th 2010 • 07:03
by aazainal
Corn is of graminae family and it’s an annual crops. Once harvested, it will not grow new shoots like the perennial crops. The apical buds (at the top of the plat) had turned to male inflorescence (flowers) and their axillary buds at the base of the leaves (at the nodes) had turned to female flowers (the cobs) during their development stage. Usually up to 3 cobs could develop at maturity, while the rest of the cobs will usually undeveloped or become rudimentary and usually harvested as ‘baby corn’ for vegetable.
After harvesting the cobs, the plant will continue to leave for another 3-4 weeks at most, before the plants dried up as no new leaves develop after that..
Mar 8th 2010 • 08:03
by tim
I think its already been answered pretty well; but, I’ll add my 2 points worth.
Have you ever seen pictures of corn shocks. In early times field and dent corn were cut and tied into shocks after the plants had turned brown.
But the ears of corn were still on the plants in the shocks. Left to dry; this being before the use of grain driers. Today as Jo pointed out the harvesters cut the stalk pull the ear and shell the corn from the cob in one pass so there is no plant to live on. And as Gold wing said corn is in the grass family (along with wheat and rice) and doesn’t produce more than once. With sweet corn; if you like corn that is not quite ripe, you can hand harvest and the plant may live one to 3 weeks after the corn has been removed. But it won’t produce more unless there were 2 ears to begin with and you only harvested one.
Mar 8th 2010 • 08:03
by Sonny H
the corn plant can live months after all the corn is gone, it even make new leaves, and some times a corn cobb, but as all good things,, they go away!!!
Mar 8th 2010 • 08:03
by donfletc
If corn is planted among the standing crop, so that the new growth is putting out pollen as the cobs are being harvested for tender sweet corn, some of the stalks will present new cobs to be pollinated.
I observed this in Cuba, at an agricultural college. The corn involved may have been bred to make this happen since I have not seen it happen in Canada. Most corn will begin to pass all of its nutrients out of the stalk and into the corn by the time the milk stage is complete. The stalk will continue sacrificing itself to feed the cob until the stalk is no longer able to stand, at which point we get a lot of lodging.
Of course, if the corn dries out, the transport mechanism stalls, so the stalk may remain fairly strong even into the deep of winter. But the stalk will ordinarily continue to sacrifice itself to feed the cob as long as the cob is there and not dried out, not frozen. Does that mean it is still alive? Perhaps not. It will not go back to producing new cobs under those conditions.
Mar 8th 2010 • 08:03
by verselia
corn is an annual hence can not survive long months after the harvest.
If weather conditions are congenial they may remain green and may produce a few leaves and even cobs of inferior size.
Usually they wont set as pollen is not available.
Hence can be used as greens