It appears that your corn is just beginning to tassel so you would little ear development just yet....hang on.

Your plants look healthy. Feed enough water and give a dressing of Nitrogen reach fertilizer.
As wayne mentioned plants are in a process of producing tassels.

ty for the comments yes there just tasseling now but no sige of ears i just have to wait and see

The tassels come before the ears, and they won't be ears... they will look like little triangular nubs, 1 or at most 2, along the stalk. With time, silks will emerge. When the silks are sticky, they will be receptive to pollen. Shake the plants at that time to get the pollen to disperse onto the silks. Or you can rely on wind, though when corn is planted close quarters, I usually have better luck hand pollinating. (Sticking a broom handle between the rows and smacking them gently with the handle back & forth works well too.) You can also collect the pollen from the tassels in a paper bag and disperse on the silks.

Hope this helps.

I've been reading all the posts on this site and have both enjoyed & learned from them....now I have questions that I sure could use some answers for.
I live in Bonham which is in the northeast part of Texas 13mi. from the Red River & Oaklahoma. For the last 2 yrs. we have taken a beating, weatherwise, here as far as our gardens go....this year we had a late cold snap at the end of Mar. that wiped everbody's gardens out...luckily I had enough sense that I still hadn't planted yet - mine were still in pots in the house.
Then we all planted and the rains came and wiped all the gardens out again...SEVERAL TIMES.
I have replanted my corn 4 times now and finally gave-up after the fourth time...so now I have corn in various stages of growth...some past maturity, some only a foot or so tall. I expanded my garden this year so that it is a 42' X 5' plot and had planned on a 8' X 5' or 4 rows of corn planted 1' apart with the rows spaced 2 1/2' apart which would give me 16 plants total...well, I counted them this evening and there are 10 or 11 plants left but only 7 that aren't already past maturity that I might be able to get a harvest from.
I planted Burpee..."Honey & Cream" corn which is supposed to be a mixture of both yellow & white kernels per cob. The package says the scientific name of the corn is "Bicolor Normal Sugary Hybrid". One problem we have here (besides the weather) is that there just are "NOT" any bees or butterflys around here...once in a blue moon I will see a butterfly come by. This is the second year I have tried to grow this corn and still no luck at all, out of the 7 that I still have left, 2 are now big enough that they have tassels coming out at the top but still no cobs or silk showing yet but I figure any day now they will start showing.
My really big question, that I am confused about, is that from reading all of the posts on your site...the comments make it sound like the pollen off of the tassels is like a fine dust. Quote from your site...."Inhale while you do your pollinating since corn pollen smells wonderful".
Now, both last year & so far this year, what I see on my corn tassels looks like little seeds...actually they kinda look like "SESAME SEEDS"....sooo, I end up with sprouts coming out of the top of my corn stalks with all these little seeds on them...and I really don't think I want to try to inhale any of them...hahaha. As these sprouts or (tassels) mature I can shake them or thump them and all these little seeds fall off. I have tried to take a few of the seeds and put them on the corn silks but they don't want to stay there...the first wind, or if I shake them they just fall off...I have even tried to put them down close to where the silks go into the husk but so far no luck, plus I got to wondering....am I gonna have to put one seed on each one of these silks, cause if that's the case then this is more trouble than it's worth.
Would you please tell me...IS THIS JUST THE TYPE OF CORN I PURCHASED OR AM I DOING SOMETHING WRONG....it has me totally confused. If it is the type of corn I purchased, then how do you pollinate it...or is it self-pollinating? If so then I still have never gotten any harvest from it! Also, another confusing question that popped-up this year, I had two of my plants that formed tassels and some really small ears down near the ground but up on the tassels each plant developed 2 to 3, what I would call, kernels of corn which aren't in a husk or anything...they are just sitting there on the tassels...and all the rest of the tassel on each plant went ahead and formed the little seeds that finally dropped off.
I could really use some help on figuring out "what th' heck" is going on with this corn...I've never had this type of problem with growing corn before! When I moved up here it had been about 30yrs since I'd had a garden so it's kinda like a whole new learning process again, BUT I do know that my carn never did this before....hahaha.
I can post pictures of the plants if needed.

Could you also tell me what zone I'm in as I've forgotten.
LOST IN TEXAS!.....

Raunt, the things that look like rice open and that is where the pollen comes from... it is fine like powder. Usually, the tassels shed pollen a good deal of time before there are silks.... PLUS, when there are silks, they need to be "receptive" to pollen, which is when they are sticky. They should also have pollen shedding at the same time the silks are ready. If you look closely at the leaves, depending on weather, (wind, rain, etc), you can see the pollen sometimes. I often bend a plant down towards a bunch of silk and wipe the leaves onto the silks to get pollinated. Sometimes, I try to brush the tassels up/down to get them to shed pollen for the silks.

The corn you bought is a fairly basic type corn, Sugary type (su.) Then sweeter is Sugar enhanced (se) and sweeter yet is Super Sweet (sh2, because of the shrunken kernels.) There are also combinations of se & sh2, some are "Triplesweets" or "Tablesweets."

YES, every silk needs a grain of pollen to fertilize/pollinate it, and each pollinated silk makes 1 kernel. Poor pollination, sometimes caused by improper spacing, different planting depth, rain, earworm damage, etc, can cause many blank spots on an ear. You want to be conmsistent with planting depth, and they recommend not to fill in spots that didn't germinate with new seed because it may not produce pollen or silks at the same time.

Anyways, the BEST article I have found that should help everybody understand how sweetcorn grows & pollinates is at the link below. Hope this helps.

Here is a link that might be useful: Sex in the Corn Field: How It's Done

P.S. you don't need bees or butterflies for pollinating corn, it is generally done by the wind.

Thanks Korney19, I guess I just haven't noticed the little seed pods opening up yet...seems like they always just fall off...will pay closer attention on the two that are almost ready to silk.
Maybe with luck I can at least get an ear or two to try out before the season is over....hahahaha.

When do the little seed pods on the tassels open and start letting the pollen out & can you use the pollen off of one plant to fertilize the same plant?
I noticed several posts that said if you are going to hand pollinate then put "white" paper bags over the emerging corn ears when you start seeing silk...is there any particular reason in using "white" paper bags?...does it reflect the sunlight keeping the ears cooler or can you use brown bags also? We have wind up here almost constantly so can I also put bags over my tassels when they emerge fully to save the pollen until the silks are ready?

From that link:

"All of the pollen from a single anther may be released in as little as three minutes. An individual tassel may take as long as seven days to finish shedding its pollen, although the greatest volume of pollen may be shed during the second and third day of anther emergence. Because of natural field variability in plant development, a whole field may take as long as 14 days to complete pollen shed."

Yes, you can pollinate the same plant or a different plant.

I assume the white bags are cooler than brown, or maybe coated?

If you search around enough (or google), maybe even on that site, I remember video(s) showing the entire process of bagging, clipping silks, hand pollinating, etc, that I watched last year or the year before.

raunt
Appears you are in zone 7b.

Here is a link that might be useful: Map with your zone

it's been 100+ here for the last 4 days and my corn in in the silking and tassling stage, read somewhere, trouble when it comes to pollination when it's that hot like tomatoes. Is that true?