Never seen this before

[Hobbyfarmer]

Got Home yesterday and walked out in the end of one of the corn fields this morning and found these things every where, some 7 feet tall some two to a plant. I know about suckers but this is ridiculous. ...My corn is just starting to tassel. Most of them are silking where the tassel would be on the main stalk.

[Farmerjoe79]

I thought you only planted 28000 seeds per acre it looks like 40000:)

[gbryce]

Your ground is telling you that you should have planted thicker for such a good year. JK   Actually that corn looks really good from the pic . is it just pollinating now?

[Hobbyfarmer]

This morning it was showing tassels but was more green than yellow, the fields turned yellow with tassels this afternoon.

102 on the tractor temp read out for a while this afternoon then a cold front must have came through and cooled off to a balmy 98F.

This corn was still doing it in 100ish weather. It got a nice 1 1/4ish inch of rain last week late and was still moist on top of the ground this morning. I think if it would get one more timely drink and cool off to the mid 80's there would be work for a combine out there.

Just tasseling and silking now is in no strech of the imagination a made crop out there. The moisture demands are now starting.

All my corn is in river bottoms this year and it generally gets 5 to 7 degrees cooler at night down there so maybe I have an outside chance of a decent harvest?