Just to give you an idea of how brown my thumb is, here is my first "ear of corn" for the year:
![[Image: attachment.php?aid=1182]](https://rogue-nation.com/mybb/attachment.php?aid=1182)
It looks like a cross between corn's ancestor "teosinte" and corn. To verify, here is a picture of tesinte (top), the cross between the two (center) and actual corn (bottom):
![[Image: attachment.php?aid=1183]](https://rogue-nation.com/mybb/attachment.php?aid=1183)
That ear never grew and covering "shuck", but upon examining it closely, it appears to have a shuck on each individual kernel, and the kernels are about the size of small popcorn.
Maybe better luck next year!
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It looks like a cross between corn's ancestor "teosinte" and corn. To verify, here is a picture of tesinte (top), the cross between the two (center) and actual corn (bottom):
That ear never grew and covering "shuck", but upon examining it closely, it appears to have a shuck on each individual kernel, and the kernels are about the size of small popcorn.
Maybe better luck next year!
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake