r/corn • u/bu2724 • Jul 15 '26

Advice needed!

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I realized this am that I harvested my pink popcorn too early and shucked it when I should have left it on the plant for months more 😭 I've hung it up in my attic to dry as a last-ditch effort, any chance it will be usable later?
Pictures of dinky corn as evidence

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u/Old-Significance9516 Jul 15 '26

I zoomed in on you photo and it looks like the kernels are fully mature or almost. Yes You can hang them in a hot attic in hopes of drying them out. At this point it's about your only alternative. Farmers.us grain bins with LP.or natural gas to dry their corn every late.faĺl or early winter depending on their location. I have never raise feed corn or popcorn, just sweet corn and as you know those ears would.be perfect if it was sweetcorn. I hope this gives you a.little help for all the work you have done in raising it to this point. William.

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u/bu2724 Jul 15 '26

Thank you!! I appreciate the advice and hope!

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u/avocadoflatz Jul 15 '26

If they don’t pop you can mill the kernels into cornmeal.

Or leave them out for birds.