Can I grow baby corn from pieces of the vegetable itself?

[8932m]

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I mean rather than buying baby corn seeds, can I grow from a cutting of an actual baby corn?
Sorry for the question, I'm a novice but would really love to try growing them as they're my fave vegetable!

You probably can but the quality may not be great. Buy some decent seeds for a proper crop.

Baby corn comes from unfertilised, normal corn, so I doubt the 'seeds' would be fertile. They'd likely just rot.

You can get seeds for £1.
www.suttons.co.uk/search?q=baby%20corn

You almost certainly can if you have an expensive cell propogation lab. Otherwise, no. And it's cheaper to buy a pack of seeds than a packet of babycorn.

Not sure it's worth growing as a home crop anyway, unless you run a rabbit or guinea pig rescue centre. The ratio of waste plant to edible cobs is massive. You're growing full size corn plants for the sake of a handful of immature seed cobs.

I'm surprised people think you can - the seeds are months away from being ripe enough to sprout, and corn is a type of grass, so surely it can't just start growing the plant again - there isn't any part that can root? But I'm open to being enlightened :)

@8932m No you can't. Baby corn is ordinary sweetcorn, picked when the corn cobs are still tiny and barely formed, they aren't a special mini variety.

But you could try with spring onions, and celery - cut off and keep the end bit with the roots on and plant it. You can also save tomato seeds and plant them. It is the wrong time of year for all this sort of thing though, wait a couple of months until spring before trying anything.

You can plant the root part of spring onions or leeks now. Probably not the optimal time of year though.

Wait until spring and try root veg tops and the bottom part of spring greens and cabbage.