HAPPY HALLOWEEN! M.M. Cob Seeds?

[Huffen'Snuff]

At one time I seen there were some of the dense cob seeds available, for cob pipe construction on FTT. I reached out to Aristocob, is there anyone else on the FTT that has a couple of these pipe specific varieties?

I have heard of ppl having to replace there drill bits to work with the M.M. varieties. I would like to grow the cobs for use in the construction of cob pipes.

Thanks

 

[deluxestogie]

My M.M. corn seed is far too old to be viable. I have grown a number of corn varieties for their large cob size. For example:

Two other varieties that I've grown also have nice, fat cobs:

• Oaxaca Green
• Bloody Butcher

You can find all of these on various vegetable seed sites.

Bob

EDIT: I should also mention that the M.M. corn, like the other varieties with fat cobs, produce only a few suitable cobs—two or three—per 20 corn plants.

 

[Huffen'Snuff]

My M.M. corn seed is far too old to be viable. I have grown a number of corn varieties for their large cob size. For example:

Two other varieties that I've grown also have nice, fat cobs:

• Oaxaca Green
• Bloody Butcher

You can find all of these on various vegetable seed sites.

Bob

EDIT: I should also mention that the M.M. corn, like the other varieties with fat cobs, produce only a few suitable cobs—two or three—per 20 corn plants.

Is there really something to be said about density, between the M.M. seeds you have grown verses the others ones. Or are they just middle of the pack?, as far as density and resistance to burn thru. I have gotten M.M. pipes to hot and seen the tobacco oils force their way through the plaster around the bottom of the chamber.

 

[deluxestogie]

Your quest for quantitation of cob properties is beyond my knowledge. I have made pipes from many varieties of corn cobs. You can drill the bottom, and place a well-fitted wooden plug. My preference is simply to spackle the interior of a cob with a 50:50 mixture of plaster of Paris and fine sand. It's fire-proof, and used to line the interior of metal forges. I've used that spackle to fire-proof the interior of a section of corn stalk, made into a pipe.

I think the key is to start with a cob that has dried for at least a year. The least intrusive stem material is a section of un-dyed, bamboo tomato stake, rather than the clunky hunk of wood used on MM pipes.

Bob