Corn and other bio tees

I used to play at a private club near me once or twice a year and I always thought it was great they had a large bucket of corn tee's (tees made from corn that are decompose quickly) for all players to use.  Just go up grab a handful and away you go......Well they stopped the practice and I hadn't seen them since ,until this year.  I picked up a box of 1000 corn tees on fleabay for 28 bucks but they just didn't seem the same as the ones I remembered. They hold up great on the course and I'd say they seem to last longer than wood but break easier than plastic.  Well just for giggles I put one in a bucket of water on my deck after a day it was "slimey" feeling and after a week it was "gooey" after 16 days it was dissolved (mostly).  I don't really think its a necessary thing and I use them mostly because they are a cool conversation starter and they weren't expensive.

I got thinking there was a discussion years ago of someone who filed for a patent for a golf tee made out of grass seed that explode on impact....those, I think would be cool.  I'm not sure if anyone ever actually made it.  Anybody ever seen one of these?

Sounds like the balls that shatter when you hit them or the ones that roll a little then explode.  Those would be hilarious until someone got you unnoticingly. Of course, if I start my backswing and mid shot notice that the ball isn't the one I want to hit, I always hit a terrible shot anyways...

16 days for a bio tee to decompose doesn't seem all the important to me.

the grounds crew should have mowed that tee box and picked up the tee's by then :)