Immigration and the Long-Term Decline in Employment Among U.S.-Born Teenagers

cis ^ | May 2010 | Steven A. Camarota, Karen Jensenius

[Aliska]

Interesting and that you actually ate field corn at the right time, probably not as sweet. Personally I miss the old yellow sweet corn, will eat the newer salt and pepper variety, and it is sweet, but still prefer the yellow. Odd that in the stores in cans and frozen, they use the yellow, so somebody still grows the stuff. If I had more time and were younger, I'd do some more experimenting on my own. Amazing what some amateur hybridizers have developed (daylilies and zinnias), have followed discussions on that.

What I got was about half red ears, but then a wide variety of colors, some mixed ears, different colored cobs (some white, some red, some tan) and some purple husks.

From what I've read, that is usually the result, see above. I think the only way you can breed plants to hybridize "true" is to keep selecting out what you're aiming for for several generations of planting seasons. IOW what you got seems to be the norm rather than the exception.

The only other way to grow "true" is it is possible to buy a cloner which works for a lot of different varieties. My only experience with that is rooting roses from cuttings, not using a cloner per se, but are still clones of the parent plant (tricky, requires experience, trial and error, and some varieties easier than others. Even then you can end up with a "sport" but not too often. My Harvest Moon Echinacea has naturally cross-pollinated with some blowin' in the wind, not too many that close to me, one volunteer has come up a yellowish pink. And so on.

You can make your own cloner, but I haven't had time to do it. They say you can clone tomato plants and a lot you might not expect.

Some of my plants self seed and will grow "true" the following season(s). White alyssum is a prime example, plus it's extremely tolerant of dry conditions, sun or part shade, very useful for borders. Even though there are colorful varieities, the white is the best performer almost to the point of being invasive for me but so easy to transplant or just yank out if it comes up where you don't want it, will smother weeds to some extent, especially as it grows larger and spreads, blooms from now until frost.

[Tijeras_Slim]

The pocket change they could earn at McDonald’s will not “move the needle”, but a full academic college scholarship might. We want their minds focused on the latter.

I don't know about that, working at McDonald's as a teen certainly focused my mind on getting to, staying in, and graduating from college.