Glass Gem, Popcorn

Variety: Heirloom Popcorn. | QTY: 1 oz | 110 Days

We read the raves of this gorgeous Cherokee-bred corn on the internet and in Farm Show Magazine and decided to try it.  WOW.  The plants are 9′-10′ tall and stool out with six or so tillers so you end up with a jungle of a plant.  And most tillers produce ears too.  We harvested an average of four ears per plant of 5″-6″ cobs of tiny-seeded corn.  But wait!  That corn comes in such a variety of colors you seldom see in “Indian” corn; pink, lavender, purple, mauve.  And the kernels are glistening colors like little pearls.  Very nice.  And you can pop it.  (No the typically white fluff of the popcorn isn’t colored in Glass Gem; just the hulls.) Or you can grind it into cornmeal if you wish. One ounce per pack  (as the seeds are small)

- Jackie Clay Atkinson