Growth Update: Stalks Now Touch the Sky

Like we mentioned yesterday, it's been nearly two weeks since we measured the corn because we went away on vacation.  The Kernel babysat the corn field but did not do any measuring.  This means our records will show bigger growing results.

The first thing we noticed was that the Bloody Butcher stalks are so tall they seem to be touching the sky.  There is no way we can measure it like we used to.  So we had to measure it with a pencil!

We learned how to measure tall things using a pencil with information we found on this website: http://www.wikihow.com/Measure-the-Height-of-a-Tree.  They have three other measuring techniques on their website that we will try in the weeks to come.

Using the pencil measuring method, we found out that the Bloody Butcher corn still stands the tallest.  It stands at 10 feet!  It grew 4 feet in two weeks!  Wow!!  It's neighbor, the Japanese Hulless popcorn is showing red silks and growing 2.5 feet! (see picture on left)

Coming in second place for growth was Delectable Hybrid, growing just an inch shy of 3 feet!  What makes this growth interesting is that it was one of the last varieties we planted and it now measures 6 feet tall!

There was so much growth, we had to use the pencil measuring method on a lot of the corn varieties.  In the picture to the right we are measuring one of the varieties of Truckers Favorite corn.  Even the very last variety we planted, Ruby Red, is growing rapidly, going from 12 inches to 37 inches.  That means it went from seed to over 3 feet in barely four weeks!

Here's a bigger picture of the corn field: