Does organics really work?

what a differance,you must be exited about your experiment

Could it be that the corn in the white ring is in more shade and near very big roots?

I was thinking that Denise....Perhaps for a better comparison they should have been planted in the other end of the same bed?

Good observation Drc,
The chemical corn misses out on only 1.5 hours of morning sun VS the organic corn. That area is also root free because most of the wild trees next door are hack berries that have a somewhat small root system.
The little rock area was "deep cleaned" and tilled last year about 1.2 feet down to grow mammoth sunflowers, but that project never got going due to a lack of good seed sources. Last year I amended the area with lavasand, greensand, expanded shale, and zeolite. All of those great amendments go down deep into the soil and the area has had a winter season to "cook". The soil itself is a great organic mixture that is loose and arid, but the only thing that was changed was the fertilizer choice for the corn experiment.

The two soils are pretty much the same in both areas, but I'm testing the effects of chemical vs organic fertilizers on plants to see what works best.
We'll see what happens! :-)
N2O

Good for you there is certainly a difference in the 2 crops