viable?

forty-eight days ago i had a look at the twelve foot behemoth from the zea family ( i am not at all certain exactly what it was in the family however it was unmistakably zea ) that had begun to sprout silks and ears...it was late in the season...still it did produce ears...

and while some of them remained distressingly green until the first freezes killed them...

some of these odd ears may have come along far enought produce viable seed...

so out of curiosity i took two likely looking ones...

placed them in some unbleached paper towel soaked in distilled water...

and into a baggie in a dark place for a while to see what happens...

i did not soak the seeds in hydrogen peroxide to break dormancy as i would have with teosinte...mostly because i don't think this is teosinte...the plant they came from was allegedly maize...at least that is what the seed package said and they certainly looked like maize kernels whan i planted them...there was teosinte interplanted in the bed and there may have been some cross pollination...and these seeds many not germinate...or i may have a hybrid on my hands...who knows? we will be seeing...more in a week or so.