backyard teosinte

today's big ( for me anyway ) teosinte news is that the biggest plant ( top photo ) is irrupting in silks ( second photo ) so my population of ears is increasing...one of the smaller plants across the yard has two ears that have emerged from the stems ( bottom two photos )...i can feel the seeds in there and they should become visible soon as the husk thins...todays bad teosinte news i that native seed search is completely sold out of annual teosinte seed and there isn't much hope that the outdoor season will be long enough to allow these seeds to become viable...i do have a quantity of seed left over from fall 2012 and 2013 which will see me through another season, depending on how viable the seed is...i will be "naturalizing' some, planting some this coming march, and starting some indoors...first thing to do is to do a viability test with a hydrogen peroxide/paper towel germination...if they take, early plants under the lights...okay off to the community garden..more on that later.