Colourful Sweet Corn Maize 'Rainbow Inka' (Zea mays) Organic seeds
- Wonderful Indian sweetmaize variety with colourful kernels.
- Contents: Approx. 20 seeds
- Open-pollinated variety, seed tested regularly
Regular price:
€3.19
Content: 20 Single seed
Product number: ZEA03-BIO GTIN: 4251420516336
Description
The Colourful Sweet Corn Maize 'Rainbow Inka' reaches up to 2 metres in height and forms large, sweet cobs with yellow, red, black, and blue kernels. Ripe, the rainbow-colored cobs are a real eyecatcher, for example as a decoration on the harvest festival altar. They are also a highlight as regards taste, grilled, for example.
If you'd like to do it like the Inkas, plant pole beans, and pumpkin plants in-between the maize plants. The pole beans can climb up the maize plants and the pumpkin shades the floor with its large leaves. Ideal patch partners. This mixed crop in the patch is also called 'the Three Sisters'.
If you'd like to do it like the Inkas, plant pole beans, and pumpkin plants in-between the maize plants. The pole beans can climb up the maize plants and the pumpkin shades the floor with its large leaves. Ideal patch partners. This mixed crop in the patch is also called 'the Three Sisters'.
Plant profile
| Lifecycle | Annual |
|---|---|
| Species | Poaceae |
| Eventual height | 1-3 m |
| Flower colour | Yellow |
| Flowering months | August, July, September |
| Main harvest | August, July, September |
| Root system | Deep roots, Shallow roots |
Growing instructions
| When to sow outdoors | April, May |
|---|---|
| Sowing depth | 2-3 cm |
| Germination temperature | 18-24° C |
| Sunlight | Full sun |
| Planting distance | 30 cm |
| Row spacing | 50 cm |
Sowing and care
Sowing directly outdoors approx. 2-3cm deep from mid-April. The space in-between the plants should amount to approx. 45cm. Plants sown in blocks prosper better than single unprotected rows. Sometimes, maize is also pre-cultured indoors, which increases the yield considerably.
Other names
Botanical name: Zea mays, Mays vulgaris, Mayzea vestita
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Feiner Zuckermais
Funktioniert Tiptop. Zuckermais ist auch lecker. Samenfest scheint die Sorte nicht zu sein.. Hab auch schon buntere Sorten gesehen, die mehr an einen Regenbogen erinnern. Die hier ist mehr blau, weiss und vll mal rot.
