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Trying corn for the first time this year! I'm pretty hyped (lemmy.world)
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[–] ThrowawaySobriquet 6 points 8 months ago

Seconding this. First time I did corn, I was disappointed at how weird and shriveled every ear came out. Like, some of them had good, edible spots, bit the rest looked diseased and I thought for sure it was some kind of fungus or pest. Nope. Just didn't get fully pollinated.

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