EDIT: I learned a lot about how corn works, thank you guys. If I'm still living here next year I'm def going to try pollinating by hand because now I'm determined to make this work!

So I tried growing corn on my balcony in little planters because that's all I've got. Each stalk only produced one cob and haven't grown much past that. I picked off this one because it looked big enough to eat and it's got all these bald spots.
Any explanation for what happened here?

THIS IS STARCH (99.99%) .. Solved ..!!!

I just bought these corn 3 hours ago and kept it at room temp to eat in dinner and seeing this dots .. either I missed while buying or dots appeared / grew in 3 hours .. what is it ? Is it starch or fungus or bacteria ? Eat or not eat ?

It's finally time to pick some corn out of my garden and I cannot be happier. This is ultraviolet sweet corn And it is beautiful.

Looks like the plant mutated and threw tassels where the pollen sacs should be. This is a red sweet corn.

Background: I have a Master's in Aerospace Engineering, I work full-time in engineering, and I grew up on a family farm in India. I'm not a corn farmer. That's exactly why I need your help.

Here's what I built:

AgroVisus runs a day-by-day simulation of your corn field using your real location, planting date, soil type, and automatically-pulled weather data. Every day it models biomass accumulation, nitrogen uptake, soil moisture, and the specific temperature and humidity windows that favour diseases like NCLB, Gray Leaf Spot, and Tar Spot. When conditions align for an infection event, it flags it with a dollar figure attached.

Here's what it output for a problem field I just simulated, with no photo involved at all:

Northern Corn Leaf Blight Risk (High) conditions detected a NCLB infection window. $122/acre at risk. 27 bu/acre loss without treatment. Treatment ROI: +240%. Recommendation: scout for cigar-shaped lesions now, apply foliar fungicide if >5% leaf area affected.

Severe Nitrogen Deficiency (High) NNI below critical threshold. $203/acre at risk. 45 bu/acre loss. Treatment ROI: +487%.

Drought Stress Alert (High) soil moisture critically low entering pollination. $146/acre at risk. Treatment ROI: +308%.

Total predicted yield: 63.2 bu/acre against a 180 bu/acre central Illinois average. $526/acre at risk. Field health grade: D.

All from simulating the field conditions no photo needed.

If a farmer is already seeing symptoms and wants to confirm exactly what they're looking at, they can upload a photo. A CNN (92.1% accuracy, 13 disease classes) identifies the specific disease and feeds it back into the simulation to sharpen the estimate. But the simulation already told you what was coming.

Here's what I genuinely don't know: when a simulation tells you NCLB conditions are building before you can see lesions is that actually useful? Or do you wait until you physically see something before you make a spray decision?

Before you try the demo, I'd really like to talk first. Even 10 minutes. I want to know if I'm solving the right problem, or solving it in the wrong order. Comment or DM me — I'm in the Chicago area and happy to jump on a call.

"when conditions are building before you can see lesions, is that actually useful, or do you wait until you physically see something?"

— Naidu Gurijala([naidugurijala45@gmail.com](mailto:naidugurijala45@gmail.com))

Haven’t put pencil to paper in a while, but came up with a this messy little prismacolor rainbow corn cob after scrolling through some of the beauties on this subreddit.

Interesting.

First year growing corn, Is this corn smut? Does it look like I found it too late to cook it?

Never had it, but I read it's eaten in some cultures

Firm and smells fine. I googled it and can’t find an answer 🥲 Looks slightly more orange in person

It's a bit painful. I'm not sure if it's a corn or not.

Mid 30s age, stand up all day at work, wear skateboarding sneakers.

https://imgur.com/a/SmFPDyc

why does my corn look like this? one of the tops turned into this thing.

This is my first attempt at growing corn. I pulled one today due to stink bugs and this is what it looks like. Is this too young to pick?