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A couple of years ago I bought 2 or 3 ears of decorative red corn around Halloween. They got stuffed outside on a patio table somewhere before Christmas and just sat there through two winters. This spring when I was planting the garden they fell on the ground and about half the kernels came off the cob.
After a couple of days when I'd got everything planted there was dirt everywhere and a half dozen of those kernels were now three inch long baby corn plants. So I stuffed them in a six inch pot.
After about three weeks they were almost a foot tall and I stuffed them into a much larger pot.
They were a wonderful decorative plant - you really couldn't tell they weren't some soft of fancy decorative grass. Which... they sport of are, really.
They flowered and are now making tiny easy of corn. I really don't expect much from a single pot of a half dozen corn plants on a balcony that only gets sun half the day, but it's doing something.
Perhaps not surprisingly given that it's red corn, the husks and leaves are quite red too.
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