after what has been a couple of reasonably productive weeks of work i can safely say we have all four strains of teosinte germinated and planted in peat pellets in the tray on top of the warming mat...but just barely...the top photo is the single Zea mexicana plant i got out of a batch of around thirty seeds i stuck in a baggie to germinate....it's doing fine but it's not enough so i just soaked sixty seeds in hydrogen peroxide and put them downstairs to cook...the middle photo is a row of Zea perennis which looks kind of on the runty side...i've never grown teosinte before though and that might just be what it is...smaller...the bottom photo is Zea diploperennis, which is the one strain for which i had the fewest seeds ( only fifty, from ames, iowa), but which has turned out to be the most viable... sixteen of the twenty seeds i cooked in the first batch germinated and all the plants are still doing well...the northern tepehuan teosinte has and continues to germinate...i have four seeds in peat pellets so far, but none have come up yet...they took their time germinating so they may grow at their own pace as well...the gamagrass si up in the garden and i'm still waiting on wheatgrass...i may have jumped the gun on that and will try it again when the weather warms up...unless it's up the next time i'm at the garden.
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