...probably more gramatically correct too, but that's beside the point....after my last failed attempt to grow teosinte i was fairly unhappy...disgusted, i chucked a handfull of seeds into a pot on the south side of the house as a last deperate stab at it, not expecting anything...i checked on the pot for a few weeks and when nothing happened i decided i would do some more research over the winter and try again in the spring with the seed i had frozen and forgot about it...so this evening i go out to water in the back jungle and when i came around the south side of the house to water the cowpeas and yams in the raised bed there what do i find? teosinte...and larger and with many more leaves than anything i managed to germinate indoors...humbling...all that soaking in hydrogen peroxide and time spent in baggies and paper towels on the heating mat for not much and some ( actually only one) seeds i toss out into a pot and forget do much better...it's Zea mexicana and so an annual and i don't have a clue how well it will do...but natural processes trumped all the research and networking and close attention i could muster...chastened but pleased none the less i won't do too much for it...maybe some water between rains...it is on its own...that's how it got there...i will keep you informed...maybe it just likes hot weather.
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