I’m dedicated to the idea of breeding up my own landraces of different crops; it’s one of the most exciting things to me about homesteading. Joseph Lofthouse is an inspiration.

I’m really interested to hear from anyone who’s done this with corn. I’m aware that the different colors of individual kernels on an ear reflect genetic differences, but do they also ripen at different times, or is that controlled by the mother plant? Somehow my intuition based on seeing landrace corn and multicolored corn would be the kernels do NOT ripen at different times, but I’d like to ask people with more experience.

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