Nothing says "buy our seed" like 50% of the ear being undeveloped
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  • 1542 points McChiser

    As a farmer, i've seen ears of corn with less tip back after a two month drought.

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    381 points NonDescript2222

    lol no wonder you noticed. Yes, even use a stock photo if that’s your product

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    205 points Mesoscale92

    Us city slickers don’t know much about corn other than what we see at the grocery store. I wouldn’t have noticed. And even if I did, for all I know this could be a corn plant mid growth. I take it the green parts are never getting whole kernels?

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    201 points McChiser

    Correct, once it starts to yellow.Whatever isn't yellow, is not gonna fully develop.

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    79 points Columbus43219

    ""Tip back" in corn refers to kernels failing to develop at the tip of the ear, leaving it blank or incomplete, often due to stress (drought, heat, nutrients) during pollination or early kernel set, causing the plant to abort kernels it can't support, though it's not always a sign of severe yield loss if the rest of the ear is full. It's a natural indicator of the plant responding to environmental challenges, where the tip kernels are the last to form and most vulnerable to stress."

    Google

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    57 points McChiser

    Although this one here is a severe yield loss.

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    7 points Neosantana

    Yeah, that's not the "last five rows are under-developed". This is "I'm not buying half an ear of corn for the price of a whole one".

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  • 415 points Columbus43219

    I dunno, if you've ever planted a "little bit" of corn, you'd know this is truth in advertising.

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    120 points adudeguyman

    You need to plant more than just a little bit for it to pollinate properly

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  • 202 points Very_Chewy_Milk

    When I first read the title I thought of a sperms bank until fully processing the image with it.

    I think I miss my wife 🚬🗿

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    57 points DolphinGamesYT

    Reading the title with your context is disturbingly accurate.

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    32 points McChiser

    I hate that both of you are right.

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    9 points Very_Chewy_Milk

    You typed it man not me

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    5 points LookOutItsLiuBei

    Wait are they into ear stuff?

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    6 points SothaSoul

    You know what they say,

    'Once you go black, you go deaf.'

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    4 points turdy_gurdysmother

    holy shit dude

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    2 points Royal_Airport7940

    You stick it in your wife's ear?

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    2 points Kichigai

    You never met Walter?

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  • 61 points Upstairs_Goal_9493

    Isn't that due to a lack of pollination?

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    39 points McChiser

    Yes.

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    10 points Early-Light-864

    That's not the seed's fault...

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    57 points McChiser

    Hi, farmer here, and yet it can be. Weak silk (female part of the corn plant) can be hereditary. . . .

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    1 points [deleted]

    [deleted]

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    0 points McChiser

    Thats how corn pollinates

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  • 42 points benjaminck

    They just have pictures of hard-pore corn out in the open like that?

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    2 points Jelly_And_Tea

    LOL🤣

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  • 17 points BobDeLaSponge

    This user is from Nebraska

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    12 points McChiser

    Couple states east actually.

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    25 points Entry-Level-Cowboy

    Atlantic Ocean

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    15 points BobDeLaSponge

    This user is from Illinois?

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    11 points McChiser

    Dang

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    10 points BobDeLaSponge

    Illinois has good corn!

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    8 points McChiser

    Would you say its better than iowas. >:)

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    5 points BlakLite_15

    I raise you Jersey corn.

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  • 13 points SheWatchesYou

    The underdeveloped corn actually being a seed issue or not is not the point here, I agree with OP that if you want to convey abundance in a quick glimpse, this is not the way.

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  • 5 points CMF42

    It's vanishing like the McFlys.

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  • 5 points genetic_nightmare

    I assumed it was a way to show the life cycle of corn. Although am not a corn farmer, so cannot confirm.

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    4 points genetic_nightmare

    Life cycle? Maturing stage? Fuck I’m high.

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  • 2 points danfish_77

    Nothing to do with seed quality, but it is definitely an odd depiction to use

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    0 points Gonwiff_DeWind

    Corn kernels are seeds. The corn kernels are clearly low quality.

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  • 2 points Electrical-Ad-4823

    That's the child corn.

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  • 2 points Snoo_90160

    It should be 50% off.

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  • 2 points minecrafter8699

    the image didn't load for me and I was very confused lmao

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  • 2 points McChiser

    Also for the kernels that are developed, they have issues too. They should form nice straight rows and columns like this

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  • 1 points MyDespatcherDyKabel

    TIL it’s called an ear

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    3 points ChaserNeverRests

    What had you previously called the thing corn kernels come from? Kernels, cob, husks, and all?

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    2 points MyDespatcherDyKabel

    Yeah you reminded me, cob. If you haven’t reminded me of that word, I would have just called it the body/branch/root of the corn.

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    2 points ChaserNeverRests

    Calling the whole thing "corn" is fair. I'm not even sure where "ear of corn" comes from (they don't really look like ears?).

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  • 1 points RelationConstant6570

    I read it as half the ear being unemployed.

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  • 1 points gerundingnounshire

    buy our what now

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  • 0 points Onions-are-great

    That's bad advertising, not bad design

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    2 points McChiser

    Which is a bad design choice for their advertisement

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    -1 points Onions-are-great

    By that logic a meal that tastes bad is a bad design choice of the cook?? :D

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    2 points McChiser

    No

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  • 1 points ahmtiarrrd

    PSA for males facing financial hardship who also have >2 brain cells: There are organizations that will buy your seed.

    /edit clarify because important

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  • -1 points LicketySplitBud

    I have a feeling this is generated by AI.

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    3 points McChiser

    Its from my local Walmart.

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  • -4 points J1mj0hns0n

    How do you know it's the earz that could be it's mouth you wouldn't kbow

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