calcium nitrate

Sat Jun 11, 2011 4:44 pm

I remember from somewhere in the cobwebs of my mind someone telling me that if corn is tasseling, it's too late to zap it with a shot of calcium nitrate. Am I remembering correctly?

Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:45 pm

Wally? Beaver? Guys? Anybody?

Sun Jun 12, 2011 9:31 pm

Hey, Don't forget Lumpy! (Clarence Rutherford)

Eric

Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:20 am

Charlie,
I looked it up, couldn't find anything that applied to home gardeners. All the info I found pertained to acreage application and was geared more to application by machinery, which meant that the timing was for mechanization, not the plant.
I'll consult a couple of farmers around here and see what they say. Honestly, I knew nothing about this until you mentioned it. I love hanging around smart people!

Thu Jun 16, 2011 5:07 am

Thanks MG. I put out the calcium nitrate because only a few stalks were tasseled. To all of you who didn't answer, I'm sending you all a six pack of Round Up. :twisted:

Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:06 am

Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:09 am

I'm not just responding now because I want to avoid receiving the Roundup, I swear.

I was curious why you felt the need to apply the Calcium Nitrate (synthetic nitrogen) fertilizer to your corn, at the tasseling stage?

Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:03 pm

Local farmers suggested using it before the corn tasseled. I bought it at my organic supply house. They said it was organic. The literature classifies it as organic.

http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/46138 ... ality.html

I'll withhold the Round Up for you but everyone else is getting it.

Sat Jun 18, 2011 1:07 am

Sun Jun 19, 2011 2:49 am

Charlie MV wrote:Local farmers suggested using it before the corn tasseled. I bought it at my organic supply house. They said it was organic. The literature classifies it as organic. ...

I'm no expert on this, that's for sure.
After I read your first post, I was curious to try to learn a little bit about Calcium Nitrate. This is some info that I found on Wikipedia...
"(Calcium nitrate) was the first synthetic nitrogen fertilizer compound to be manufactured. Production began at Notodden, Norway in 1905 by the BirkelandÃ¢â‚¬â€œEyde process. Most of the world's calcium nitrate is now made in Porsgrunn.
It is produced by treating limestone with nitric acid, followed by neutralization with ammonia:"

I'm not saying that it's either good or bad; but Calcium Nitrate does not appear to be "Organic".