Saturday, December 16, 2017

what? wait! when did i plant these?

i began planting teosinte seeds i had test germinated forty-nine days ago..back in october...
they are out growing the peat pots they are in...this one has hit fourteen inches at its highest point...
and this one has hit nine inches on its central stalk...
however what startled me was the nine inch height had been reached by...a flower...after only forty-nine days? unexpected at best ( actually this is not bad...jut startling )...so i started to look around...
and i found another...and even more startling, a silk...these are grown from zea mays mexicana seeds i got form the usda and are a different variety than the northern tepehuan ( which is also outgrowing its peat pots ) and may have a somewhat shorter season...it is not a variety i have a great deal of experience with so we will be learning together...
so i prepared two reasonably deep ( eighteen inches or so ) deep containers ( the aqua colored on in the photo has yacon rhizomes ion it ) that will see the plants through the rest of their season...
so i took the peat pots one by one and tore the bottoms out to free the roots ( a poorly focused photo but you can still see the roots protruding...the plants were becoming pot bound )
and planted them four to a container...we have some flowers...ears? seeds? who knows...stay tuned.
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  1. MSDecember 16, 2017 at 8:35 AM

    They are happy in your plant room! Buffalo Bird Woman would be proud

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    1. fredDecember 16, 2017 at 9:22 AM

      "if the corn hills were so close together that the plants when they grew up, touched each other, we called them 'smell-each-other'; and we knew the ears that they bore would not be plump or large"...it would be gratifying praise and thank you for thinking it...she might be impressed ( mildly ) that an old guy could get this far in the unnatural environment of his basement but i'll wager she tell me i planted them too close together...i an surprised at the progress myself...unexpected barely covers it.

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