1. due to the fact that maize is a monoecious crop that has male and female flowers in separate parts of the same plant that distributed pollen by the wind to other female parts of another maize plant.
2. Once silks are visible, they may already be contaminated with foreign pollen, so it is vital that ears shots are bagged before the emergence of silks.
3. If silks have emerged before bagging which means they are already been contaminated with other pollen and which will affect the process of hand pollination and have other varieties than desired.
When a scientist is skeptical, it makes them look for my answers, more ways things could work. Skepticism is a very valuable quality because sometimes the thing you this is right my not be right, It might be left.
