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Originally Posted by edzone9
Keith it's a fetish that I gave ��Don't like to see the old leaves on my corns , I cut them down to the top of the corn and they grow nice and clean for me , all are doing super , I don't recommend this to the other members , it's just a habit of mine ��
Ed
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It was difficult to understand how you were taking a corm and cutting it down to a corm, but you were really just cutting off the top part and making the corm shorter.
I advise folks not to do that because,
1) It's difficult to know exactly where the growing point is and it might get damaged, i.e., dead plant.
2) Those leaf sheaths you are removing actually protect the growing point of the plant by slowing the advancement of rot.
If your top rots before the corm starts actively growing/pushing you no longer have a buffer protecting the growing point, but with a taller top the rot can simply be cut off and now it's almost like starting with a fresh new top. This can be done multiple times which increases the opportunity for success.
You may not need those extra chances but it's definitely better to have them and not need them than to need them but not have them.