What is the possibility of still getting ears of corn from these plants?
It’s hard to tell. Your plants remind me of the photos from the corn belt when the rains don’t come. I wonder if the purple color on the stalks is telling us there is a mineral imbalance or deficiency? Someone else will have to confirm this but I have always wondered why I couldn’t use a high nitrogen lawn fertilizer on my corn, without out the weed killer of course...
Well, it looks like they are starting to tassel out which means (someone might need to correct me) that the stalk will quit growing and use further nutrient to grow the fruit. The tassels start to grow before the silks appear so that they will be fully developed in time to fertilize the silks. Each silk goes to one kernel and it's my understanding that if the silk is not fertilized there won't be a kernel for that particular silk . This is my first year for corn and I'm still learning.