Carl Barnes, a farmer in the Oklahoma always collected native sample seeds and save it for proper cultivation in his seed bank.
At the end of 20th century, while he collecting seeds barnes found an unusual vibrant colour variety seed. He took the seed sample and cultivate in his land. After few months he was surprised with an amazing results of stunning multi-coloured corn.
Habitation of Glass Gem Corn
This corn is not a sweet corn, it belongs to flint type, used for ornamental purposes and it is used by grinding into flour.
It grows well in the fertile soil and needs enormous amount of sunlight.
It is largely cultivated in Mexico. Since it is a flint type, it needs longer period to attain maturity.
After getting old, Barnes decided to gave his corn seeds to Greg Shoen in 1994. He excited by its appearnace and started cultivate. At first shoen didn't saw that much difference in its colour. After few years he got an extraordinary results.
Greg Shoen named the corn as Glass Gem Corn, after the growth of blue-green, pink-purple coloured corn in 2007. After sometime Greg decided to protect the corn seeds in a safe place so he submitted all the samples to McDorman, Execuetive Director of Native Seeds/Search. He established the glass gem corn to the public and still sell to the public at the cost of $7.95.
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