Corn troubleshooting

[Hopeful homesteader]

I grew some corn this year and now that it's time for harvest, there appears to be incomplete pollination and some ears are only 2-3 inches long. When the tassels and silks started to come out we had lots of rain so I'm wondering if the problem was the rain washing away the pollen or if there could be another issue I'm not aware of. They are an heirloom variety and I did not use any fertilizer or pesticides. Here's some pictures of one ear showing incomplete pollination, one side looks good but the other side is empty and all the ears are like this some have more kernels developing than others but I didn't get a single full ear.

 

[BarnyardChaos]

Aw, man... that sucks! I don't know what went wrong, but I feel your pain. I gave up trying to grow corn around here. Too many raccoons and deer. Two years in a row, they ate the whole crop before I could get a single ear. Third year a microburst hit the corn patch and leveled the whole thing. (I say it was a microburst, because the whole plot was laid in a circular pattern with a bare spot in the middle. Weirdest thing I ever saw in a corn field.)

 

[Hopeful homesteader]

Aw, man... that sucks! I don't know what went wrong, but I feel your pain. I gave up trying to grow corn around here. Too many raccoons and deer. Two years in a row, they ate the whole crop before I could get a single ear. Third year a microburst hit the corn patch and leveled the whole thing. (I say it was a microburst, because the whole plot was laid in a circular pattern with a bare spot in the middle. Weirdest thing I ever saw in a corn field.)

What's really interesting is new ears are trying to grow now but the tassels have dried out so I don't expect much from them, might just pick them for baby corn. My first try with corn was a bust, I made the mistake of trying to grow it in large pots but I couldn't keep up with watering when a heat wave came through so they ended up tasseling prematurely and almost no corn pollinated. I'll never try it in pots again. I'm considering planting more corn in the next few days, I typically have temps in 80's-90's all the way to the beginning of December but nights start dropping into 60's by the end of October and idk if that would be a wasted effort cause I know corn doesn't like it too cold. On a positive note I've got squashes, cucumbers, melons, and peppers galore I've been giving them away to anyone that'll take them cause I can't eat as much as I'm harvesting so I'm grateful for that even of my corn didn't do great. I never would have guessed the desert dirt could grow things so abundantly, I thought this dirt was dead.