most of the hopi blue maize i planted in the garden earlier this month looks well (top photo ) but two haven't come up and one has failed ( second photo )...so i soaked half a dozen seeds ( there have been unresponsive seeds in the pgp as well ) and went out to campus after work to do some replanting...i removed the failed plant and buried it in the bed to close the nutrient cycle that what growth it managed ( there will be lots of talk about closing nutrient cycles, composting, and green manures as the season progresses and harvests begin to come in...we will be preparing beds for next season before this one is done enlisting nature as an ally ) then i planted three more seeds...hopi blue matures in eighty-five to one hundred and five days so we still have plenty of time for a full bed...in a couple of week we hope to see three healthy plants...the bottom two photos are a comparison of zea family morphology...the fourth photo id=s of northern tepehuan teosinte ( zea mays mexicana ) and the fifth is of sweet corn (zea mays )...from the shape of the leaves to the coloration at the base of the main stem the relationship is plain to see...if all goes well as the season progresses the similarities between the annual teosinte and the hopi blue maize will become even more apparent...more as it comes up.
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