just teosinte

the top two photos are of the newest silks i have discovered and the barely discernible ear they are attached to...still hoping for more but my expectations are being muted by the lateness of the date..the third photo is of the largest northern tepehuam teosinte plant in the yard...pushing eight feet tall, it is developing a fourth flower ( fourth photo, fittingly )...it is a second generation plant that i started in the basement after i soaked seed from potted plants that i "finished" in the basement last autumn in hydrogen peroxide and started under the grow lights...i transplanted it to the yard last spring and it has done well and i am geeked to have accomplished this in the great lakes region, so far from teosinte's mexican homeland...the bottom photo is of a couple of tiers of support roots on that plant...maize comes by its support roots honest but its ancestor produces far more of them...row upon row if ti's a good season...just a bit of zea morphology that always grabs my attention no matter how many times i see it