Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Pollinated ear of corn

A brief explanation of pollination is the bottom end of the ear sends its silks out first, followed by the rest of the ear. Once the silk receives its pollen, the silk detachs from the kernel and turn a brown in color. In this picture you can see roughly 2/3 of the ear has pollinated and looks (as of now) that it has done so uniformly (a good thing).

This is one of the first fields I had tassel, so I hope the rest go this good.

It was darn hot today with air temps at 95F and 75% humidity making it feels like close to 120F.


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