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Post by WahineFan44 on Nov 30, 2023 22:49:45 GMT -5
I had to steer my paddling kids so I missed the ending but so happy we won!!! Go bows!!! Is this the Hawaii version of roguing corn? Canoe paddling. Specifically Hawaiian outrigger canoe paddling I assistant coach and the head coach made me go in the boat with the kids when it was 23-22 in the fourth. I was so annoyed lmao |
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Post by twkpwrbtmlib on Nov 30, 2023 22:50:10 GMT -5
went to go see my bf since he's finally free from covid, so didn't get to watch most of the game, but OMG. our pins hit over .200??
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Post by Seahawks 1972 on Nov 30, 2023 22:50:49 GMT -5
Girl, I was tryin' to work that pole tonight on this thread! Lmao jk jk Give everybody the boom boom pow! Lol Go Bows! You were girl lol Now get off the pole as the gentlemen have gone back to their girlfriends for the evening Let dem go..dey only trade...oops shhhhhhh |
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Post by VT Karen on Nov 30, 2023 22:51:31 GMT -5
I had to steer my paddling kids so I missed the ending but so happy we won!!! Go bows!!! Is this the Hawaii version of roguing corn? What is roguing corn? |
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Post by VT Karen on Nov 30, 2023 22:52:06 GMT -5
You were girl lol Now get off the pole as the gentlemen have gone back to their girlfriends for the evening Let dem go..dey only trade...oops shhhhhhh ʻanakē!!!!!!!!! |
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Post by JT on Nov 30, 2023 22:54:21 GMT -5
I had to steer my paddling kids so I missed the ending but so happy we won!!! Go bows!!! Is this the Hawaii version of roguing corn? OMG that brought back flashbacks. I rogued corn the summer after 7th grade for Blaney Farms. (That was approx half a century ago.) |
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Post by knapplc on Nov 30, 2023 22:54:24 GMT -5
Is this the Hawaii version of roguing corn? Canoe paddling. Specifically Hawaiian outrigger canoe paddling I assistant coach and the head coach made me go in the boat with the kids when it was 23-22 in the fourth. I was so annoyed lmao So instead of wading through lush fields of green, you're paddling through sultry waves of blue. Instead of pruning random stalks of corn, you're correcting errant outrigger paddling. Hawaii is basically the Nebraska of the Pacific. It's essentially the same place. |
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Post by knapplc on Nov 30, 2023 22:56:12 GMT -5
Is this the Hawaii version of roguing corn? OMG that brought back flashbacks. I rogued corn the summer after 7th grade for Blaney Farms. (That was approx half a century ago.) Were you a grunt or did you make your way up to Straw Boss? |
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Post by JT on Nov 30, 2023 23:04:05 GMT -5
OMG that brought back flashbacks. I rogued corn the summer after 7th grade for Blaney Farms. (That was approx half a century ago.) Were you a grunt or did you make your way up to Straw Boss? Just a grunt. And most of the time we were de-tasseling corn. Roguing was a relative rarity. (For VT Karen ... seed corn is almost always hybridized. To get it, they plant rows 3-wide -- first a row of the female parent plant, then a row of the male parent plant, then another row of the female parent. (Then a gap so people can walk down the rows). To ensure you get hybrid corn, you de-tassel the female plan before the pollen gets out. That limits the pollinator to the male parent plants in the middle of the 3-row sandwich. However... every now and then, you get a genetic oddity (rogue) in one line or the other. These show up as abnormal plants compared to all the other plants in the rows. (At Blaney, they were usually about 3-6 feet taller than the 5-7 foot tall plants.) You deal with these by breaking the plant off at the ground with your foot. That is "roguing." |
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Post by knapplc on Nov 30, 2023 23:04:36 GMT -5
Is this the Hawaii version of roguing corn? What is roguing corn? Corn is planted in rows, with furrows (ditches) in between. But machines aren't perfect, and sometimes a random seed flops out. Any flop seed that lands in a furrow, and grows, is rogue. You don't want rogues, especially if you're growing hybrids. Seed companies hire people at minimum wage, typically kids, to walk rows and dig up rogue corn. It's basically like weeding beans, but different. When I was a kid, you drove out to the fields in a bus at dawn, and they gave you a shovel, very sharp with like a 5' pole, that you used to chop any flop 'rogue' corn growing outside the rows. You either dug it up by the roots or you chopped it off near the base with your razor sharp shovel. |
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Post by VT Karen on Nov 30, 2023 23:06:15 GMT -5
Were you a grunt or did you make your way up to Straw Boss? Just a grunt. And most of the time we were de-tasseling corn. Roguing was a relative rarity. (For VT Karen ... seed corn is almost always hybridized. To get it, they plant rows 3-wide -- first a row of the female parent plant, then a row of the male parent plant, then another row of the female parent. (Then a gap so people can walk down the rows). To ensure you get hybrid corn, you de-tassel the female plan before the pollen gets out. That limits the pollinator to the male parent plants in the middle of the 3-row sandwich. However... every now and then, you get a genetic oddity (rogue) in one line or the other. These show up as abnormal plants compared to all the other plants in the rows. (At Blaney, they were usually about 3-6 feet taller than the 5-7 foot tall plants.) You deal with these by breaking the plant off at the ground with your foot. That is "roguing." and knapplc Thank you for the explanation. I feel like a corn expert now. |
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Post by JT on Nov 30, 2023 23:06:46 GMT -5
When I was a kid, you drove out to the fields in a bus at dawn, and they gave you a shovel, very sharp with like a 5' pole, that you used to chop any flop 'rogue' corn growing outside the rows. You either dug it up by the roots or you chopped it off near the base with your razor sharp shovel. Wow... you guys had high tech equipment!!! We had "feet, in shoes." |
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Post by Seahawks 1972 on Nov 30, 2023 23:06:48 GMT -5
Let dem go..dey only trade...oops shhhhhhh ʻanakē!!!!!!!!! My past days hanging with Georgina and Esther in Sunday Bleachers.(ref Key and Peele "Church Ladies") |
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Post by knapplc on Nov 30, 2023 23:07:00 GMT -5
Were you a grunt or did you make your way up to Straw Boss? Just a grunt. And most of the time we were de-tasseling corn. Roguing was a relative rarity. (For VT Karen ... seed corn is almost always hybridized. To get it, they plant rows 3-wide -- first a row of the female parent plant, then a row of the male parent plant, then another row of the female parent. (Then a gap so people can walk down the rows). To ensure you get hybrid corn, you de-tassel the female plan before the pollen gets out. That limits the pollinator to the male parent plants in the middle of the 3-row sandwich. However... every now and then, you get a genetic oddity (rogue) in one line or the other. These show up as abnormal plants compared to all the other plants in the rows. (At Blaney, they were usually about 3-6 feet taller than the 5-7 foot tall plants.) You deal with these by breaking the plant off at the ground with your foot. That is "roguing." I still remember the first day detassling. All but like three of us brought plastic trash bags. We had no idea why they did that, but after the first pass, we were SOAKED, sticky, and miserable. Joined the Baggy Brigade next day. I'll never forget that first round through that field. So, so, so, so gunky and sticky and wet. |
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Post by knapplc on Nov 30, 2023 23:12:49 GMT -5
You deal with these by breaking the plant off at the ground with your foot. That is "roguing." That's interesting! We chopped them at the root or dug them with these long, very sharp shovels. The metal part was maybe the size of a tea saucer, or half a dinner plate. The Straw Bosses were jerks. They'd gig you if you didn't chop right, or if you (god forbid) missed a rogue. The whole field knew if you missed one. Ugh. |
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