RyanTheRhino
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I found a hermi & a purple corn plant.
Purple corn
Hermi corn :both male and female flowers in the same stock
Purple corn
Hermi corn :both male and female flowers in the same stock
Mutant corn this year.....
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badmojo420
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could be an heirloom strain. 150 years ago corn didnt look like what it does today... and was commonly a different color than the sweet white corn and yellow corns we get today. i think way back when man first started harvesting corn it was actually a grass like wheat.
TexRx
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^^^^ I remember reading that somewhere- that corn has been heavily cultivated and is not the same plant that it once was many, many yrs ago! It's a cool story, really! Even then, we as humans had the ability to change the world! We would be a different society w/o corn - we would need a replacement w/o it!! This reminds me of how the Japanese took carp and bred them into goldfish!
badmojo420
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so true! corn is a very interesting story. Corn as we know it today is a fairly new crop, only in circulation for 100 years or so and our corn is evolving AGAIN due to GMO research. I love the lore behind the japanese koi fish swimming upstream and turning into the dragon, magical story with such a good moral to it.
I would bet you have an heirloom strain of corn. How rare cant say but I can assure you that itll probably be the best tasting corn youll ever eat, that is if heirloom corn compares to how heirloom tomatoes taste compared to their "regular" counterpart. Let a couple ears over mature and dry them for the seeds, replant next year! i think thats how you harvest seeds from corn anyhow....
RyanTheRhino
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maybe i should save the kernels then 
SketchyGrower
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badmojo420
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same here... also bananas use to look like this
yep! those are seeds! Im pretty sure all bananas are GMO now... there was a fungus or something that was killing off bananas so they genetically engineered them to be resistant. Now usually im against any type of GMO, BUT i LOVE bananas... top 3 favorite fruit. I would be very sad if there were no more bananas!
RyanTheRhino
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I can plant pretty much a week before spring when it stays above 45
likethegood
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My mom actually makes some good ass food with this...many ppl think its gross lol
chrishydro
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That is way cool, I have my first ear on mine this morning. I love to grow corn.
RyanTheRhino
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The silks are super purple now its crazy. im going around trying to hand pollinate the other corns with the purple flower to see if i can spread some genetics.
Nutes and Nugs
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Wow! I never knew what that was but at least 1 corn plant a year has it. Small garden and maybe 15 corn plants each year.
Says here you can eat it. I carefully cut it and throw it away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_smut
RyanTheRhino
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it kinda looks like leafy green popcorn 
RyanTheRhino
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so will i get high its illegal right lol
Dr Kynes
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nope. the cavendish banana you eat today is a sterile clone from a single mutant sterile seedless banana that grew in the 1830's or so, replacing an older type mutant seedles banana that got wiped out in the 1950's by a banana plague.
since every banana plant is basically a clone of a single mutant, one bad banana fungus can destroy them all like greased lightning.
there may be GMO designer banana soon but pretty much everything in the stores today is the cavendish mutant clone. In my area some stores carry monkey paw banannas and a few other funky types, but youll probably never see em outside california or texas.
