(08-16-2023, 08:34 PM)Ninurta Wrote: Just to give you an idea of how brown my thumb is, here is my first "ear of corn" for the year:
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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Maybe it's just nature's way - a way we don't fully understand.
Truth fears no question. Anon