Gila River A'al Hu:n

• ZL060

Zea mays.  Cream-colored flour-type and clear flinty kernels on smallish cobs. Matures quickly and with minimal irrigation. From the Gila River Indian Community in central Arizona. Ears are relatively resistant to fungal damage.  In terms of balance between flour and flint kernels, this lies in between Smoik Hu:n (99% flour-type kernels) and Ki:kam Hu:n (80% flour-type kernels).  The recent crop was grown with "irrigated dry farming" and thus received less water than other corn varieties we've grown in Tucson.  See page 5 of our recent Seedhead News for more information.  From our Seed Bank Collection.


• Origin: Low desert, about 1000' elevation
• Plants are 5-7" tall.
• 65 days to pollination, 111 days to dried ears from planting based on trials in Patagonia, Arizona (4,000');  78 days to pollination, 111 days to dry ears in Tucson (2500') early spring planting;
  
• Some red chinmark ears may be produced, as the farmer from whom we obtained the corn grew it with a red chinmark variety.
• Approx. 7g/50 seeds per packet.
• Limit 3 packets.
• $3.95

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