• Fresh Otto File Flint Corn vegetable from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showcasing vibrant, colorful kernels in a natural setting.
  • Fresh Otto File Flint Corn vegetable from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showing vibrant kernels and colorful husk.
  • Fresh Otto File Flint Corn vegetable from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showing vibrant yellow kernels in a natural setting.
  • Otto File Flint Corn vegetable from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showing vibrant yellow and red kernels on the cob.
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Hudson Valley Seed Co.

Otto File Flint Corn

Zea mays

Certified Organic

Grown on Our Farm

Heirloom variety with excellent flavor.

These delicious, gold to orange cobs, also known as Eight Row Flint Corn, originated in New England and were cultivated by northeastern Native American tribes for hundreds of years before making it over to Italy and then back again. Otto File's exceptional, creamy taste, high carotenoid and protein content made it a prized polenta corn in Italy for many years. This variety was passed through many hands before making it to our trial gardens. After growing and tasting it, we decided we had to make sure this variety doesn't disappear. Yields long, narrow 8-12 inch cobs, one per plant. There is some variation in color and plant height, but generally these are towering plants with deep golden kernels hued with bronze.

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100 seeds | Art Pack $5.79
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Growing instructions
Direct sow outdoors after the threat of frost has passed, until mid-summer. Sow corn seeds directly 3-4 inches apart, in rows spaced 36 inches apart in blocks of at least 4 rows to insure proper pollination for kernel formation. Thin plants to indicated spacing if necessary. Corn requires fertile soil and little attention. Water during dry periods.
Product Details
Days to Maturity 110 to 120 days
Days to Germination 5 to 10 days
Width at Maturity 8 inches
Height at Maturity 78 inches
Sun Conditions Full Sun (8+ Hours Sun)
Planting Depth 1 inch
Row Spacing 36 inches
Plant Spacing 8 inches
About the artist
Carol Woodin enjoys spending time outdoors looking at and thinking about plants and habitats and making studies for future paintings. Her primary obsession has been orchids, though she also loves the color, shape, and drama of fruits and vegetables."
    Fresh Otto File Flint Corn vegetable from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showcasing vibrant, colorful kernels in a natural setting.
    Fresh Otto File Flint Corn vegetable from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showing vibrant kernels and colorful husk.
    Fresh Otto File Flint Corn vegetable from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showing vibrant yellow kernels in a natural setting.
    Otto File Flint Corn vegetable from Hudson Valley Seed Co., showing vibrant yellow and red kernels on the cob.
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    M R.

    I love this variety in the vegetable garden because they are delicious, vigorous, and well adapted in my region (western VT). Although I have eaten them immature from the cob, homemade hominy with homegrown flint corn, especially in soup, is one of my favorite foods. Unfortunately, this year many of the cobs became moldy because of the excessive moisture, but there is enough seed for next year.

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    Chad H.

    Very vigorous and a 100% germination rate! I plan on grinding my own polenta so we’ll see how it goes.

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    John S.

    otto File or 8 row flint corn
    This variety or strain that Hudson Valley has made available, has done well for me for the past 4 years, It does well in a commercial setting by standing reasonably well allowing large scale combine harvesting of this corn when dry in the field, I use a 6 row John Deere corn planter to plant it no-till into last years soybean fields, only complaint I have is an irrigation pump is not supplied with the seed. it will suffer in a dry year but what doesn't? highly recommended if you have a use for this corn. Beware there are not a lot of herbicides labeled for Flint type corns.