Silver King Corn
Plant about mid may in the midwestern u s as early as mid april in milder climates.
Silver king corn. Beagley of sibly il is credited for originating silver king in 1890. Because it is a sugary enhanced se variety it is sweeter than traditional sweet corn varieties as it has more sugar and less starch. This is a sugar enhanced variety se. The silver king hybrid variety of corn seeds grow to be between six and seven foot tall stalks which provide large ears of white corn with a sweet flavor growing up to eight inches.
How to grow corn dent corn takes about 14 days to emerge from 50 f soils but only about 5 days to emerge at 70 f. The ears have 16 to 18 rows of tender kernels. It also will store longer once harvested usually 5 9 days in cold storage. The silver king is earlier than the silver queen variety and every bit as tasty.
With slightly larger ears than of 16 to 18 tightly packed rows of snowy white kernels pack every ear of this succulent corn. Has good tip fill and cover. Silver king corn seed 105 days also known as wisconsin 7 historically j. Further developed by the wisconsin experiment station.
F1 the plant produces good yields of 8 long ears of delicious sweet white corn. The silver king hybrid is mature after eighty days. Silver king rivals its sister ears the silver queen. A syngenta hybrid with improved eating quality and disease resistance when compared to argent.
This variety is adaptable and particularly resistant to disease.