Zea mays Arc-en-ciel Inca - Sweet Corn Arc-en-ciel Inca - Seeds

Description

• Poaceae Poales
• South America
• H 2m x L 0.5m
•  Z9 
• Annual
• Synonym : Maize
• 1 packet of 20 seeds

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Details

Zea mays is a giant grass cultivated on an industrial scale, as a source of many food products for livestock and humans

Its seed is eaten fresh, cooked, fermented, puffed, in flour, semolina, etc., and provides oil and starch

Its stems are a source of fiber (paper) and biomass, or used as fodder

Its cob is a source of biofuel

Zea mays has medicinal properties : Anticancer, Anti-warts, Cholagogue, Diuretic, Hypoglycemic, Hypotensive, Softening, Stimulating, and Vasodilating

There is a very large number of Maize varieties, giving tall or small plants, ornamental or not, with long or short cobs, with yellow, blue, red, white, pink, orange, etc. seeds, and hybrids and GMOs of all kinds

Corn comes in 3 categories of varieties : Flour corns (large seeds, hard and full), Popcorn corns (small seeds, hard and full), and Vegetable corns (big seeds, wrinkled when dried)

Inca Rainbow Maize is a sweet corn of the third category, grown for the consumption of fresh seeds in their milky stage, tender, sweet and delicious

Its fresh cobs are harvested for grilling or for cooking

Inca Rainbow Corn is a reproducible, non-hybrid, non-GMO variety developed from ancient varieties of native Indians in Peru and North America

It gives a plant often branched from its base, 2 to 3 m tall, with 3 to 4 cobs per stem, 20 to 30 cm long, each bearing 10 rows of large white, pink, orange or blue grains, often mixed and decorative

It yields early and abundantly

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Cultivation

Sow in place in May in an already warmed, moderately fertile to rich soil, after the last risks of frost, full sun exposure

Space plants 30 cm apart and rows 70 cm apart

Water in case of drought

For a staggered harvest, sow every 15 days in May and June

Harvest fresh from July

Harvest dry from the end of August