Posted 9/18/2016 21:16 (#5536781 - in reply to #5532653) Subject: RE: Ear where tassel should be
Garland Maine
The way I think about it, which may not be entirely correct, is that when the plant was young it was damaged, and the part of the stalk that should have grown above the ear was killed, but the point that was to become an ear had not yet emerged from the soil, so it kept growing.