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9. Stop watering 16-18 weeks from sowing when bolls have been formed, so that the plant begins to dry and shed their leaves, and the bolls will split open to form a fluffy ball
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
The cross pollinating itself is a sensitively approached matchmaking effort. Cotton typically self-pollinates before the flower even opens. “You go in the night or morning before the flower opens, take a petal off and remove all the pollen with tweezers and cover the flower with a bag and mark it. You bring the father (pollen) of one plant to the stigma (female part) of another.”
R Ranson wrote:Being in the mildest corner of the Great White North, we don't get very hot summers. So I decided to grow my cotton plants in the greenhouse. These are plant that I grew outside last year, in a sunny spot, flowers, but no harvest, dug up in the fall and overwintered inside in pots. Come the last frost date, I put them out in the greenhouse and they took off. They share the tiny greenhouse with some rather enthusiastic pepper plants, and even more excitable luffa squash - which grew out the window and now covers half the roof.
Lots of flowers and bolls, but no sign yet of the white fluffy stuff - or in this case it's suppose to be the green fluffy stuff.
November 5th is our usual first frost date, but something in my bones says we may be in for an early cold spell. However, I think cotton needs to come in long before then, as I understand they don't like being below 10 degrees C.
What shall I do to increase my chances of harvest? They just seem to have stalled, continuously making flowers, with random success at setting bolls. Do I limit their water now? Manure tea? More water? Cut off the new growth so they can focus on fibre production? I want to dig them up again for winter, but if I had to choose, I would rather have a cotton crop and seeds, than have these plants survive the winter.
R Ranson wrote:2015 has given me my first cotton harvest.
This is the funny, suppose to be green, cotton I talked about in the first post.
When I have raw 'colored' cotton, I have never seen the color until I wash it after spinning.
Danette Cross wrote:
R Ranson wrote:...
Lots of flowers and bolls, but no sign yet of the white fluffy stuff - or in this case it's suppose to be the green fluffy stuff.
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I wonder about pollination. Do you have mason bees that frequent your greenhouse. Flowers say they are willing, but no 'fruit' says there were no takers.
'bolls' are the 'fruit' of the cotton plant. I was getting 'fruit' but I didn't know how long it takes to ripen or if I needed to change the conditions to encourage it.
But this brings up an interesting idea, do cotton need bugs to pollinate?
Apparently not.
Cotton seems to be a lot like tomatoes in that the flower can self-pollinate easily if jostled.
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