a season at both ends

there are many teosinte ears that have seeds showing through thinning husks out back...

and a few that are opening up to expose still green seeds...

however i found two ears that were hanging down with the husks split open exposing seed heads ready to shatter...a sure sign the plant has decided these seeds are as done as they are going to get...i brought them in ans will...eventually...be test germinating them to see if they are viable...

as a morphological side note, dense yellow #2 field corn does the same thing...when the season is over the ears hang down from the stalks prior to harvest...they are too thoroughly husked to open and shatter...human intervention has rendered them reproductively reliant on humans...we aren't quite finished yet though...there is movement in the basement too...

after lwess than twenty-four hours under the grow lights the three germinated usda teosinte seeds i planted in peat pots yesterday are beginning to deploy their first leaves from seed to shoots the teosinte season will be moving as far int the winter as i can take it...teosinte is not a houseplant...we will see what transpires.