{"id":1577,"date":"2013-05-22T23:22:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T23:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2013-05-22T23:22:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T23:22:50","slug":"strawberry-popcorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/strawberry-popcorn\/","title":{"rendered":"Strawberry Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strawberry Popcorn – Zea Mays<\/p>\n

This is an open pollenated corn that grows about 1.5 metres high and produces bright red almost translucent kernels on a small cob that is about 10-15cm long. Usually there is only one cob on each stem but they will often produce up to 2-3 if they are growing well. I find giving them a long hot growing season in the ground with plenty of water in full sun will really push them to produce the best – but I have also grown them in large pots in a cold climate and they will still produce some cobs.<\/p>\n

They can be picked like most corn when the ‘hairy’ tips start to dry off – at that stage the cobs will still colour up from the unripe state to an orange\/red.<\/p>\n

But they are best for the full red colour when they are fully dried on the stem and the husk has fully desiccated.\u00a0The kernels are actually a translucent red at that stage.<\/p>\n

The taste when popped is excellent and they retain a small red kernel remnant (that is usually not too hard)\u00a0which makes them very attractive.<\/p>\n

The best way to use them is to pop them while still on the small cob and with the husks used to hold them.<\/p>\n

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Strawberry Popcorn – Zea Mays This is an open pollenated corn that grows about 1.5 metres high and produces bright red almost translucent kernels on a small cob that is about 10-15cm long. Usually there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/strawberrycorn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ccXI-pr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}