What do I spray corn silks to prevent corn borer/worms?
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 5:46 am
Sorry I know I read it on here somewhere but I know there is something to spray on the corn silks to "suffocate" the corn borers or corn worms. I'm thinking it was just vegetable oil but after I read a little more about BT tonight it mentioned it as well. Any advice? I know my silks are due to be sprayed because they've turned that purple hue.
As far as pollination goes I can't possibly collect and pollinate each plant so I'm just going to have to hope that mother nature has done her job. I have about 8 '40 rows, I'm definitely expanding the garden next year or maybe I'll say screw it and plant less corn.
On that note will this treatment prevent the silks from getting pollinated?
I'll be spraying the silks at various times from here on out becasue my corn is all a different levels of maturity. Yes I messed up and planted my rows too close togehter in a rush to plant it all. I'm just hoping that I get ears at varying times as it matures, not sure if it will work that way but we'll see. Either that or I'll have a bunch of tall green plants to till into the ground and get some nitrogen back this fall. The outside rows are looking awesome and the interior rows look stunted of course.
Anyways I just need to know what to spray is all.
Thanks,
Justin
As far as pollination goes I can't possibly collect and pollinate each plant so I'm just going to have to hope that mother nature has done her job. I have about 8 '40 rows, I'm definitely expanding the garden next year or maybe I'll say screw it and plant less corn.
On that note will this treatment prevent the silks from getting pollinated?
I'll be spraying the silks at various times from here on out becasue my corn is all a different levels of maturity. Yes I messed up and planted my rows too close togehter in a rush to plant it all. I'm just hoping that I get ears at varying times as it matures, not sure if it will work that way but we'll see. Either that or I'll have a bunch of tall green plants to till into the ground and get some nitrogen back this fall. The outside rows are looking awesome and the interior rows look stunted of course.
Anyways I just need to know what to spray is all.
Thanks,
Justin