....may have been reached.

I had an outdoor storage unit for 3 or more years and cleared it out last summer. In the corner, I found a box of about dozen nice Bloody Butcher corn ears that I had forgotten about. I hadn't marked when they were grown so probably in 2020 but maybe as old as 2018.Most of the kernels were nice looking, with almost no insect or rodent damage, but the they had been exposed to the climatic variability for at least 4 years.

I shelled them last year but kept the bag separate from known dated other outputs. I just finished a 8 day germination test on 64 seeds. There were 51 "no" and 13 "yes", although none of them were overly robust. I may have gotten/kept the paper towel wrap too wet, as there were far more mold spots on the towels than my normal, younger corn kernel testing.

Anyway, these might be donated to the pheasants over the next few weeks.