Finally YES YES, Yesterday and today it has happened it is happening and will continue to happen now for a few days in my corn field and others across America. Pollination is taking place...The packets of pollin on the tassle at the top of the stalks, glance down and see those beautiful blonde, red or brunette silks below and they just can't hold it any longer....They open and allow the pollin to float downward and fall upon those soft waiting silks. Then a almost miraculous thing happens. A single polin or maybe multiple not sure but they will enter into the inside lining of each of these silks and start a voyage of working their way downard, all the way maybe 12 inches or more to where the each individual silk is attached to the corn cob. When it reaches the cob another miracle happens and a grain of corn is born and will grow to maturity in the next couple months at that exact place on the corn cob. Since this is such a "text book" year there will most likely be 18 to 22 rows of kernals around these cobs and since this year's perfect conditions there will likely be maybe 50 most likely even more kernals in each row.
So a lot of silks are emerging out the end of these corn ears you see in the pictures to the right...Each will await its mate or shipment of polin from the tassle above and each will know what to do to make that trip all the way down the lenght of the silk hair to the point of attachment to the corn cob....A lot of baby kernals of corn are being made the next few days in the corn fields of America. Rain is falling today another huge plus for the polination process...Temperatures are not excessive another huge plus...All is right for some of the best sex corn has ever experienced and you saw it happen right here....ha Also you will note in the pictures that a second ear has emerged on most all of the stalks...It is an optomistic plant that does this and some years it shrivels and does not amount to anything but this year I am guessing a lot of these second ears just may produce at least a half size ear of corn, maybe that is the bushels we need to make up our shortfall of corn that is so much in demand out there.
You have probably read where some claim they can almost hear corn grow in Indiana or Iowa or Illinois, but this year I have to say I can almost hear some sensual noices happening out there as I stand and observe and take these pictures. So hope it has been as good for you, as it has for me, and I will do a follow up in a couple weeks and share how we know it all went well, and the nurseries are full and baby corns are on the way....Have a great day out there, and watch out for falling polin, its all over the place in Indiana....
One more share I have to tell you drive slowly on a country road between too polinating corn fields is no better smell to a corn farmer or ethanol stock holder or even a guy who Loves the Lord, and so appreciates all his miraculous handy work.
It does give off a most delightful odor, well to me anyway, maybe you had to grow up around it, but it is almost heaven....
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