LOL mine have been slow but I never considered beating them. Mine is clemson spineless. I am really curious about that new stuff.
I just figured it hasn't really been hot enough. Maybe not dry enough? The older plants are thinned out more - the leaves themselves have become skinnier- and are producing some for quite a while now. The later plantings have nice big leaves and bushed out some, but aren't putting out many pods yet. With so much rain this summer, I don't know what to think. The last couple years I have been picking more by now. About this time last year we had a cold snap and nights got down in the high 40s for a day or two and that shut them down completely, blackened all the flowers...then they came back and really put some pods out for a solid month after that. Maybe they were "scared straight"?
Does okra need bees to pollinate?
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