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Black Mexican Sweet Corn

Quick Facts:

  • Unique variety with excellent flavor
  • Interesting blue-tipped kernels
  • Fun to grow and a treat to eat
  • Produces well-filled ears
  • Sweetest before kernels are uniform blue

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Quantity: Packet (50 Seeds)

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Black Mexican Sweet Corn

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Black Mexican is a unique heirloom sweet corn variety with excellent flavor and a one-of-a-kind appearance.  Despite its name, probably not of Mexican origin, but derived rather from a northeastern flint that acquired a natural mutation in the sugary1 gene.  Regardless, we found this variety to be a joy to grow and a real treat to eat.  Plants grow well with relatively little effort and produce copious amounts of pollen, which is essential for good kernel set.  Ears are ready to pick three weeks after pollination, or roughly eight weeks from planting, and the uniquely colored kernels make them so much fun to shuck-- like opening a present!  Kernels will eventually mature to a uniform dark purple color... More

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Zea mays

Black Mexican is a unique heirloom sweet corn variety with excellent flavor and a one-of-a-kind appearance.  Despite its name, probably not of Mexican origin, but derived rather from a northeastern flint that acquired a natural mutation in the sugary1 gene.  Regardless, we found this variety to be a joy to grow and a real treat to eat.  Plants grow well with relatively little effort and produce copious amounts of pollen, which is essential for good kernel set.  Ears are ready to pick three weeks after pollination, or roughly eight weeks from planting, and the uniquely colored kernels make them so much fun to shuck-- like opening a present!  Kernels will eventually mature to a uniform dark purple color but are sweetest when still somewhat white.  75 days to harvest.  50 seeds per packet.

Zea mays

Black Mexican is a unique heirloom sweet corn variety with excellent flavor and a one-of-a-kind appearance.  Despite its name, probably not of Mexican origin, but derived rather from a northeastern flint that acquired a natural mutation in the sugary1 gene.  Regardless, we found this variety to be a joy to grow and a real treat to eat.  Plants grow well with relatively little effort and produce copious amounts of pollen, which is essential for good kernel ... read more

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Zea mays

Black Mexican is a unique heirloom sweet corn variety with excellent flavor and a one-of-a-kind appearance.  Despite its name, probably not of Mexican origin, but derived rather from a northeastern flint that acquired a natural mutation in the sugary1 gene.  Regardless, we found this variety to be a joy to grow and a real treat to eat.  Plants grow well with relatively little effort and produce copious amounts of pollen, which is essential for good kernel set.  Ears are ready to pick three weeks after pollination, or roughly eight weeks from planting, and the uniquely colored kernels make them so much fun to shuck-- like opening a present!  Kernels will eventually mature to a uniform dark purple color but are sweetest when still somewhat white.  75 days to harvest.  50 seeds per packet.

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