new corn variety?

well the past few days have been interesting. i have made several trips to my garden at my sister's house to check on the corn. the painted mountain variety has been drying for a few weeks on the stalks. im extremely impressed at the speed of this variety. the rest still have quite some time to go before they begin to dry. but this painted mountain stuff is amazing. it was developed by Dave Christensen in Montana, so its intended to grow quickly and finish early, seeing as montana has a very short growing season. painted mountain is now available on several websites and from several seed suppliers. the site i ordered it from was the sustainable seed company. their website is sustainableseedco.com. they dont have a huge selection of seeds, but it was from them that i found out about painted mountain.
well when i planted it, i put a small block of it in between a large block of hopi pink and a large block of hopi blue. painted mountain has a massive genetic ability as far as color goes. it could almost be more appropriately called rainbow corn, but it isnt. among the more common colors are orange, purple, and a lot of yellows and reds. so naturally, i was expecting these kinds of colors from the ears i pulled. however, after i pulled the husks back, i found the hopi varieties had had a great influence on the outcome of the color. a couple of the ears had some yellow kernels, but the majority were blue, purple, pink, and white, with one ear being almost completely white with a few very light pinks, purples, and blues. it was among the most impressive, but the most impressive was one that had almost no solid white kernels, but rather all the kernels with white were speckled with blue and pink and purple. it was very interesting, and i will save some of the kernels for seed for next year so that i can try to either make a new variety of corn from it or a new strain of painted mountain. i have high hopes that this is possible, and will work to make it a new variety.

one other note, i will begin to post reviews of the various seed suppliers i have had experience with this year. the first should be posted within the next week or so.