A Look Inside.

So, the wheat has headed out, what happens now? Well here we have a look at the flower of the wheat plant.These plants have flowered, which we can tell by the anthers hanging out of the heads.

Here's a good looking head. If we pull of the outside layer of one of the spikelets, here is what we find:
Here are the three anthers surrounding the fuzzy pistil. You can see why wheat plants are almost exclusively self pollinating due to the closeness of the anthers and the pistil. No bees required here. This particular flower has almost certainly completed pollination because the anthers have lost their green color. (I think.)

Now we just need the baby wheat plant here to store up some food for itself.

These pictures were taken on May 28th, which puts the wheat about 2-3 weeks behind the normal schedule.