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The variety is Yukon Chief, from bestcoolseeds.com (Denali Seed Company). The ears are 4”-6.5” long and about the same size around as a normal ‘smallish’ regular ear of corn. Ie, you can hold them and eat the corn on the cob like regular corn. Only they’re smaller and suitable for kids.

It got a max of 3 or 3.5ft tall, including tassel.

So, it was less than 50 days for this variety from planting to eating.

And it’s open pollinated.

But if you want to save seed, you need to plant it very early and cover it or very late to make sure there isn’t cross pollination.

Also, corn suffers from inbreeding depression so you need to plant at least 150 plants and save one ear or ‘some’ seeds from dried ears from each of those plants. Ie, maximum genetic diversity. You might get away with saving corn from just 3 or 4 ears for a year or two but eventually you’ll have issues.

I didn’t plant enough to save seeds from strictly this planting. So I’m going to let it dry on the stalk and then save 1 ear from each plant and then mix it with the 3 other packets of seed I bought.