New Alto (Treated) 72 day Bi-Color Sweet Corn
Alto (Treated) 72 day Bi-Color Sweet Corn is an exceptionally tender, Triple Sweet, sugar enhanced (se) variety that has excellent flavor, tip fill and stand uniformity for the consumer.
Alto has strong plant vigor with strong, upright plants that perform well in cool soils and offers great standability in the field.
Alto offers marketers a highly desirable appearance and flavor that creates great option for profits in an early bi-color corn.
Alto corn is a nice slender, high quality bi-color with a 7.5″ X 1.8″ cob and 14-16 rows.
OMRI Listed
No
Establishment
Plant sweet corn in a well prepared seedbed that is warm and moist-do not plant too early in cold soil.
Plant in Full Sun.
Plant 22,000 to 25,000 kernels per acre if using a corn planter or 1 kernel every 8-9 inches if planting by hand.
Plant sweet corn seeds 1.5 to 2 inches deep. (Planting to moisture is often practiced to help with uniformity of emergence, but this may be affected by soil texture. In heavy soils, corn seed should NOT be planted deeper than 2.5 inches regardless of the conditions. In lighter, sandy soils, planting 3.0 inches deep may be necessary.