A couple of weeks later, a clump of leaves has formed. I'm figuring that if I feed the clump well, with aged comfrey soup from the barrel behind the shed, the growth may continue. What the cluster will look like in a fortnight's time is anyone's guess, but I'll be there with my camera.
Some would say this is a pointless exercise.
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I thought corn cobs always had a point.
Corn is probably the earliest and most successful genetically modified plant.
It is a human invention, a plant that does not exist naturally in the wild. It can only survive if planted and protected by humans.
This one's straight down, wildcrafty. I wonder if this has been done before. Surely. Someone, somewhere...probably an Aztex, Pueblo Indian or Nabraskan at some point in history, shoved a cob into the soil thinking, "I wonder if anyone has tried this before?"
Am I walking in the footprints of great people, or loons? And does one walk in footprints or footsteps?
Anon - I don't think you should call conventional plant breeding 'genetic modification' - they ae different processes. Selection for quality differs from cellular manipulation.
But yes, corn/maize modification will have happened early on in the horticultural history of mankind.
I think it's an excellent experiment and look forward to more updates :-)
Look forward to seeing the results. I think I'd be torn between letting the whole 'clump' grow as it is now - or trying to separate individual plants out once they reach 10cm or so.
I'm very encouraged.
I'll nip outside and take an up-date photo.
I'm going to leave it as a clump, kaukapapa, so that I know.
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