okra is small

[seedcorn]

Mine do that all the time. I assume it is extra sugars not being used by fruit

 

[catjac1975]

I love your Okra planted at the front of your house. It is such a beautiful foundation planting. I always encourage friends with small yards to use attractive veggies in their sunny front yards.

^ Clemson spineless. I was only getting one per plant every 2 days, then every day, but as the plants branched out and after I gave them fertilizer they started making clusters of over a dozen buds at a time, producing more and more with each passing day.

Keep in mind that mine were larger than yours when you first posted the picture, at that point mine already had a few foot-wide leaves. Yours may catch up. Couple pics, one of a bunch way too crowded and one of a plant in a different group with a new bud cluster (wasn't there yesterday).

[url]http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/2789/crowded.jpg[/url]




[url]http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/5751/budcluster.jpg[/url]

 

[Dave2000]

^ It looked pretty good for a while but that okra is now about 8 foot tall and the leaves don't cover the stalks anymore and it's wanting to spread onto the driveway. I have to top it off soon, not going to get a ladder out every day to pick okra.

 

[Dave2000]

Mine do that all the time. I assume it is extra sugars not being used by fruit

I just found it odd that it only happened, and happened so quickly, right after a lot of rain following a drought. I had been watering it regularly, but I'll see how it goes as our annual grasshopper onslaught is beginning now.

 

[897tgigvib]

When I was a little kid some Texans moved in across the street. Bill was from Amarillo. He got store bought seed for his garden, including what he called Black ah'd Cowbeans, which he said looked different than what he used to grow, but he'd seen them. So he grew them and liked them. He and dad had a chile cook off. Dad's Montana Chile and Bill's Texas Chile. Bill's won on points. But that was only one of the varieties new to Bill, the California Black Eye Cowpeas.
The other new variety for Bill was the store bought Okra seed, which I guess was Clemson Spineless. He called it "just fahnn but not very greasy". Does anyone know for sure what varieties of Okra were commonly seed saved by folks around Amarillo Texas probably from around 1940 to at least the early 1960's? I know it'd be a variety "greasier" than Clemson. Bill made some "modified for California" gumbo he said ya can't really call Gumbo, and called it succotash. Us kids all liked it.

 

[Dave2000]

^ I'm guessing it was just due to the preparation or cooking, all the okra I know about are very low in fat and carbs.