View Single Post
Old August 25, 2018   #20
b54red
Tomatovillian™
 
b54red's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Alabama
Posts: 7,068
Default

Despite my plants now being really big most of them are still not blooming. I went out the other day and beat the heck out of them with a stick. A friend of mine told me it worked for him several summers ago when he had the same problem with his okra just not blooming. Of course it could be that the plants are so well watered and growing so well that they feel no stress to produce seed yet. I'm hoping that is the case and that is why I thrashed them in an effort to stress them a bit more.

Now that the plants are now five to six feet apart you would think that was plenty of room but it isn't. Some of them are already overlapping each other even with that huge spacing. I have never seen any okra spread like this stuff does. I'll be saving seed also if the rest of my plants start putting out like they should. Maybe I should go beat on them some more just to let them know what happens if you don't produce in my garden.

Bill
b54red is offline   Reply With Quote