Light
Full sun in an open position.
Learn how to care for your green friend
Pink Popcorn
Zea mays · Pink Popcorn
Vegetables · Planned variety
Meet your green friend.
Pink Popcorn makes ears with pink to mauve kernels on tall corn plants.
A space where it can thrive
Grow as a cultivated garden crop in a bed or suitably sized container. The illustrated nursery pot is a presentation, not a recommendation for the mature plant’s root space.
Ask about availabilityAvailability, size, pot and price will be confirmed in store. Pictures illustrate the plant type.
Studio illustration. Appearance varies with age, variety and growing conditions.
Your care routine
Watering
Water deeply during dry spells, especially at tasseling and silk emergence.
Soil & drainage
A warm, fertile bed with good drainage.
Fertilizer
Prepare the bed with mature compost. This crop benefits from adequate nutrition during active growth; follow a suitable vegetable fertilizer label and your soil test rather than adding an arbitrary dose.
Temperature
Frost-tender crop: start with warmth and move outside only after cold weather has passed.
Planting
Direct sow once soil warms. Plant several short rows in a block for wind pollination, rather than one isolated row.
Harvest
Allow ears and their pink kernels to mature and dry; remove dry kernels for popping. Do not harvest at the milky stage used for sweet corn.
Through the seasons
Provide a warm long season, block planting and separation from incompatible corn flowering. Finish drying ears away from autumn rain.
When your plant needs help
- Let ears mature and dry before removing kernels for popping; do not harvest at sweet corn’s milky-kernel stage.
Pets & little ones
This guide covers a cultivated garden crop. Confirm the identity and the edible part before harvesting; wash produce and keep unverified plants away from children and pets.
Grow with your neighbourhood store.
Independent, family-owned and right here in Uptown New Westminster. Browse before your visit and keep this guide handy at home.
Visit The Golden BazaarCare references
Guidance is a starting point. Adjust watering to your plant, pot, light and season; follow fertilizer labels and check outdoor cultivar hardiness.