Another sweet corn question

[treepixie]

Any ideas as to what is going on with my sweet corn, it seems to be producing side shoots that look like this, there are cobs on the rest of the plant

[Thelma Sanders]

It's malformed, happens a lot with sweetcorn, nothing you can do about it. Most of the other cobs should be ok, though

[treepixie]

Thanks, should I cut it off?

[Thelma Sanders]

Just ignore it, it won't do any harm and may help some lower cobs with pollination.

[marchogaeth]

It's malformed, happens a lot with sweetcorn, nothing you can do about it. Most of the other cobs should be ok, though

Is it a male tassel coming through then, Thelma?

[Thelma Sanders]

It looks to me like a tassel and a cob growing from the same place - like some kind of mutant.

I had a lot of these a couple of years ago when I grew the variety Incredible. Don't know what variety the OP is growing.

[Nannysally99]

I have a few of these on my Swift sweetcorn