I Planted the Multicolored Maize and got Mixed Results

I've been growing maize for four years. This year I started growing open pollinated varieties in different colors, and the results have been good. Someone gave me a blend of white, yellow, red, and purple.

The yellow maize has been the most promising. It has large cobs and even the seeds are big. Of late I have been roasting them and using them for githeri. I still plant the other colors, but the yellow has proven to be the best performer.

Some of the cobs are multicolored. The purple maize tends to produce smaller cobs and the seeds look small.

So I will continue planting the colored maize but so far it looks like yellow is the best.

The hybrid maize I used to grow yielded an average of two cobs per plant. With this variety, the yield is not as high. Many of the plants have only one cob, and they are shorter. I've also noticed that the cobbing can occur much lower on the plant closer to the ground compared to hybrid maize.

If I stick to yellow maize, the yields will be fairly high because the cobs are bigger. But I want a bit of variety. So I will continue to mix them.

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