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Post by woodeye on Dec 13, 2022 0:03:31 GMT -6
Yeah, Okay. I'll probably never get a business discount. I doubt that monkey business will ever be a qualifier for a discount...
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Dec 19, 2022 10:18:51 GMT -6
Baker Creek weighed my seeds this morning and gave me a receipt for 181.34 pounds.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Dec 19, 2022 13:31:47 GMT -6
Congratulations! I’m sure that’s a nice early Christmas present to know that they’ve got all your seeds.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Dec 20, 2022 16:32:45 GMT -6
Watching all of those months of work get loaded onto a truck going across the country is always worrisome. It sure is a relief to know they reached the final checkpoint.
I still need to take the time someday to count out a pound of seeds, just out of curiosity. I've sent Baker Creek a little over 430 pounds of seeds over the years, all shelled out by hand. It would be interesting to know what that number might be.
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Post by woodeye on Dec 20, 2022 17:43:08 GMT -6
My estimate is 3.44 Million okra seeds, heavyhitterokra...
430 lbs. X 8,000 Seeds per lb. = 3,440,000
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Dec 20, 2022 18:31:15 GMT -6
Interesting Okra Facts
If I remember correctly, it seems like it took 60 to 66 okra seeds to cover the grove in my wooden ruler for a full 12" inches. (depending on the size of the seeds). If 3,440,000 seeds were placed side by side at that rate, they would stretch well over 9 miles long.3,440,000 ÷ 66 seeds per foot = 52,121.21 feet, and 52,121.21' feet ÷ 5,280' feet per mile = 9.87 miles.I'll try to make it a goal to count out a pound of seeds during this cold snap, just to make sure though.
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Post by FrostyTurnip on Dec 20, 2022 21:06:06 GMT -6
Interesting Okra Facts
If I remember correctly, it seems like it took 60 to 66 okra seeds to cover the grove in my wooden ruler for a full 12" inches. (depending on the size of the seeds). If 3,440,000 seeds were placed side by side at that rate, they would stretch well over 9 miles long.3,440,000 ÷ 66 seeds = 52,121.21 feet, and 52,121.21' feet ÷ 5,280' feet per mile = 9.87 miles.I'll try to make it a goal to count out a pound of seeds during this cold snap, just to make sure though. Seeds placed 9 miles long. And if they sprouted and grew to maturity, that’s 9 miles of absolute yummy bliss.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Dec 20, 2022 22:31:01 GMT -6
I can see that it's gonna be really close to 8,000 seeds per pound like Teddy said earlier.
So far, I've counted out 4,000 seeds. They weigh .540 lb. (That's just a tad over 1/2 a pound).
They are counting really close to .135 lb per thousand seeds on average.
At that rate, it will be just under 8,000 seeds per pound.
I think a lot depends on the moisture content of the seeds being counted. These seeds have been curing for about 60 days time in a room with an electric heater burning to keep the summer kitchen warm all winter. They've actually lost a little weight while sitting in there like that, compared to what they weighed when we first weighed them before they were cured.
Hank and I bagged them at a rate of 25 pounds per seed sack in October, by the middle of December the seeds had cured and lost about a quarter pound of weight per 25 pound bag, causing me to have to add more seeds to each bag in December. So the humidity of the storage room has a lot to do with seed weight as far as seeds per pound.
I'll try my best to get the rest of the seeds counted by tomorrow. I'm done for tonight.
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Post by amyinowasso on Dec 21, 2022 8:31:44 GMT -6
I would go insane trying to count that many seeds. I would lose count at the least distraction. Are you doing them in groups? Lines of 10? What a tedious activity! Interesting about the weight difference. It would be better for you to ship earlier than December because seeds would be heavier? Hard way to make a living!
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Post by rdback on Dec 21, 2022 10:52:36 GMT -6
My estimate is 3.44 Million okra seeds, heavyhitterokra ...
430 lbs. X 8,000 Seeds per lb. = 3,440,000
...and just for grins, lets put a value on them.
Using $3.50 for 15 seeds (Baker Creek), that's $802,667 gross revenue. Almost 1 MILLION dollars!
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Post by Tucson Grower on Dec 21, 2022 11:33:03 GMT -6
If that 9 mile line were spaced out by 18 inches between plants (minimal planting distance) it would be 61,919,982 inches long, which is just 18 inches less than 18 inches per seed, so as to avoid counting an extra space after the last seed. 61,919,982 inches for 18 inch spacing + 52,121 to account for the width of the seeds = 61,972,103 or 51,164,342 feet; which is ~ 978 miles long, The seed only occupy ~ 9.87 miles, but won't grow very well without an attempt at proper spacing. So planting that many Heavy Hitter okra plants and expecting a chance at a crop would create nearly a 1000 mile row. If that were possible, you'd need quite a crew to tend that crop.
As an aside; consider, Denver, CO is only 855 miles from Los Angeles, CA.
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Post by FrostyTurnip on Dec 21, 2022 18:40:17 GMT -6
Haha. Righteous.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Dec 21, 2022 19:48:36 GMT -6
Hey guys, I really appreciate all this effort. What an interesting way to spend an evening, checking math calculations. I enjoyed that. My old college Math Professor would absolutely love this thread. Some of this stuff sounds a whole lot like his old, "Sally the Camel" extra credit exercise. That problem always intrigued me. I probably worked on that one problem for more hours, and with more enthusiasm, than I did my actual homework. One time, I asked him if the answer was 533 bananas. He would never tell me if he thought that was the correct answer.
Here's the problem: You have a pile of 3,000 bananas. You wish to transport them to a place 1,000 miles away on the back of a camel; however, the camel can only carry a maximum of 1,000 bananas and will eat one banana every mile it travels (and will not go anywhere if it does not have any bananas). However, you can load and unload as many bananas as you want anywhere. What are the most bananas you can bring over to your destination?
His classes were always fun. One time, he sent the whole class to the NSU Net Lab parking lot to measure the shadow that the Net Lab building cast. Then he had us measure the shadow of a nearby stop sign and asked us to tell him the height of the Net Lab by doing the math.
I thought for a moment, then took a short break, went to the NSU Architect's Office and asked how tall the Net Lab was. The clerk there said, "Funny, you're the second person this week to ask me that same question." I asked, "Who was the other person?" She said, "Professor Wyatt, from the Math Department."
What a hoot! When I came back to the group, I told him, "Near as I can figure, it's about 98' feet 4" inches tall."
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Post by FrostyTurnip on Dec 21, 2022 22:07:38 GMT -6
Hahaha. Cheater!
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Post by Tucson Grower on Dec 21, 2022 23:04:05 GMT -6
Doing the math, could be, counting the number of steps to the Architech's Office.
Added thought: Just about everything we do involves calculations/math, especially problem solving, even if it isn't directly connected to numbers (per se) or even if we don't counsciously realize it. When we move, our brains need to calculate how far we need to go, so we know when to stop, etc. If we needed two steps, of a certain length, to reach a particular destination, just guessing might never get us there. Our brains do the "math" then direct our bodies to accomplish the feat.
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