october spring wheat

when i harvested the hard re spring wheat this past july i set it in the basement to wait as a long winter's night project of threshing and winnowing...all fin and good...there has been water appearing on the basement floor on and off and while its provenance is still undetermined ( i am inclined to think seepage from the sporadic heavy rains the non-existent climate change is bringing ) there is periodic water there...while i was bringing in some deck furniture i looked down and...

that an ear of wheat had fallen into the water and virtually every grain had germinated in place...and not all that recently..the shoots are about six inches long...

with well developed root systems...

so i cut the stem off the germinated ear...

and planted them en masse under the lights...they won't mind the closeness..and we will see what happens...honestly...i had not planned a major indoor season this year because i knew if the teosinte germinated there would bee a need for the space...dna is relentless though and the wheat wouldn't be denied...so we will do what we can to sustain it and bring it to fruition...we may plant the results outside in march.