2021 crop is dry and shelled, now to clean it, package and freeze. This is about 33% of what 2020 crop was. 2nd pic is what's left of 2020 crop. Our extended family eats a lot of popcorn!View attachment 129902
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Chapman
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That's a lot of popcorn. How do you pop it mostly, microwave or popper? Is that an old time corn sheller?
JCDEERMAN
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That's awesome! I was wondering how you got the name popcorn. This explains it 
Pop it on the stove is best. I get this variety from Shumway, white hulless and has a great flavor. not huge pops but little to no husk in your teeth. I just use a pot, tilt the lid to let the steam out or its chewy, 2 pats of butter and a little olive oil. takes a little practice to get the temp right and to know when to take it up before it burns add a little black pepper to the oil makes it real good. yea that sheller was hard to find it has a slot / passage for small ears on the far end. A lot of the ears are so skinny a regular sheller wont touch them. I also added a layer of milk jug plastic to better narrow the passage and get a good shelling. I will clean seed this weekend and will add a pic of the home built seed cleaner powered by a shop vac. It aint pretty but it works.
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Sometimes you just gotta go with it, own it...That's awesome! I was wondering how you got the name popcorn. This explains it
buckaroo
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Will coons eat that in your garden?
Yes
I set traps and move my dog to that area when silks start.
BUT squirrels are the real problem!!
Killed 22 last year out of the 3 trees nearby
God forbid your home ever catches on fire, the fire fighters will literally have popcorn and watch it burn. That and I'm guessing there will be a fair amount of ammo cooking off too. Soooo....
Damn....I just figured out your avatar @Popcorn. I'm slow to the party. I thought it was an alien head for years....just now saw the deer. 
It's all making sense now. I'm back.....
It's all making sense now. I'm back.....
After a few more beers, it'll be an alien head again...guaranteed.
Cleaned the popcorn today. One final manual screening and package and freeze. Freezing keeps it fresh and after 2 to 3 weeks of deep freeze there are no bugs hatching out. I grow this to organic standards and use no herbicides or pesticides.
I need a shop vac with a little higher cfm's, not quite getting all the uglies and a few cob pieces.
SES
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That's awesome. We recently went to stovetop cooking popcorn instead of microwave bags. A lot cheaper and a lot better. I put one of the mesh splatter guards on top of the pot so we can watch it pop.
DaveB
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I have had an air popper for 20 years. Before that a 2 gallon soup pot.
Wife and kids want me to liven things up.....Like candy coatings, some not-hot-spice stuff we have, and some jalapeno dust.
Anyone have a favorite?
Wife and kids want me to liven things up.....Like candy coatings, some not-hot-spice stuff we have, and some jalapeno dust.
Anyone have a favorite?
we hsed to grow it. the best thing about it was the unpopped kernels were not hard. theyd swell up and be soft. i liked them as much as the popped kernels.
Very cool winnowing fan setup. Takes advantage of specific gravity, like gold mining techniques. You could possibly play with the effectiveness by tilting the box and/or reducing the the suction opening to accelerate the high pressure side of the airflow.
RoyalPrudent
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I really do hate squirrels around the house.
I sometimes add cayenne pepper
this variety pops very well. not much hard tack but you are right its not hard.
Chapman
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Have you ever made popcorn balls? I have made them with Steen's Cane Syrup, a local syrup that is popular here. Here is the reciepe. https://www.steenssyrup.com/post/popcorn-balls
