I plant indian corn on my deer food plots too mainly just because it's open pollinated so I can save seed each year. The wife likes it too for falltime decorations.
If you are careful about choosing your seed I think you could get it to produce a crop that is mostly all one color. There will probably always be some variation though because the genetics are hardly pure, at least my seed isnt.
Your 'yield' will not be even close to what modern hybrid corn will make. I never cared about that much since I am not growing it to sell.
There is one drawback with it, you can't use roundup on it like you could modern hybrid corn. So you have to figure out other ways to deal with the weeds like cultivating. I have used 2-4D in mine at times too which you have to apply carefully, I used a handheld garden sprayer when I did it so I could hit the weeds and not hit the corn so hard.
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