seedy day

altogether this past season...

i harvested 2806 ( by my count...call it approximate ) teosinte seeds from twenty odd plants in my yard ( the plants elsewhere were a failure for one reason or another )...

i set aside 150 i plan to use in two ways...some i will direct sow...something i tried this past season with positive results and so feel that it is worth repeating...and some i will soak in hydrogenperoxide and germinate before planting ( i can guarantee none will go into the campus garden...only garden variety plants there in perpetuity ) in a couple of places i have in mind...

i will be planting some of these seeds from cob-like structures that came out of some ears last autumn as well....just to see what might come up, if anything...i will be sowing maize along with the tesointe this season...again just to see if anything transpires between the ancestor/descendant...