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Thanks all, and thanks for the common names (flour, flint, pop, etc.) as I did not know the more formal names. It definitely looks flinty, and the mother parent was a flint. But kernels are smaller and glossier than either parent.  It looks like it could pop. With one ear only I do not want to waste it trying to make it pop.  My current plan is to take half the kernels and grow them in an isolation, not self but mate siblings, and the other half to cross over with a sweet, which I plan to do also with the selected orange kernels from the rest of the population.  As long as I de-tassel I can grow as many lines as I want.

There was nothing like this one ear in any parent that I saw. It is unlikely the Zdrowie selfed as it has been pretty carefully detasseled. as I grow the different parent in a field where I sell the OP for seed.
As to kernels, I am still also choosing "hard" but very orange kernels which have to be hetero for su. I will be crossing it with something sweeter next year.  I may also grow out the single plant in a different place.

I have been selecting for an orange sweet corn . One population was created pollinating Zdrowie (orange flint) with my Tuxana (white su) then pollinating that cross with High Carotene (yellow su) corn from Joseph Lofthouse. All but one ear are what you would expect, a mixture of wrinkled and smooth kernels and also of yellows and orange colors. But one ear is different. All orange (some variation in shade), luminous like glass gem or some popcorns - it looks kind of like popcorn - no wrinkled kernels.  What is going on ? Should I grow seeds from this one ear out in isolation or keep it as a row and pollinate it with another sweeter line ?

I'm going to look at what might come out of "Temptation". I planted and saved seed from the old pre-GM Temptation corn some years ago.   Temptation is the variety that was often the commercial comparison variety for sweet corn trials.
I noticed that the seed within an individual ear was more variable than most corn, with larger and smaller kernels, yellow and white kernels, etc. I grow the f2 out this year. I plan to separate out by kernel type with the f3 seed this fall. From there the road is open.   

There is not too much orange & sweet out there. most sweets, I think, come from flints. wrinkled kernels are easy to choose. There are other traits I may try to cross or select in later, but for now I go where the orange is.

orange corn:  I thought I would try my hand at making an orange sweet corn. To that end, last year I grew out some orange flint corn seed from Frank Kutka, by the name of  Dziekuje,  and pollinated it with my Tuxana (white).  Joseph Lofthouse has already developed  an orange sweet corn. My thought for 2019 is to grow out my crossed seeds, detassel,  and pollinate with Joseph's high carotene line. From there, I am open to ideas.

so, our lettuce needs a good lawyer ?

we grow Outredgeous for a red and Emerald Fan for a green (both at east somewhat romaine types, both open source) and find we always have tasty salad