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Post by chrysanthemum on Apr 26, 2022 19:09:23 GMT -6
It’s funny how okra seeds can be beautiful, but they really are. Is that all Windridge, or do you have different varieties in different tubes?
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Post by hedgeapple on Apr 27, 2022 7:24:34 GMT -6
It’s funny how okra seeds can be beautiful, but they really are. Is that all Windridge, or do you have different varieties in different tubes? Those are a few of my "deep storage" vials with four successive generations of Windridge in them. I'll be planting the two vials in the front, which are from last year's best plant. Will be very interested to see what effect selection of that plant has on the shape and productivity of it's descendants. It was one of the first three producers last year, and went branch-wild moreso than the rest. What I don't know is if that extra branching was genetic or if the plant was responding to the hail storm damage they all received - just in a different way. Guess I'll find out! 😊
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Post by chrysanthemum on Apr 28, 2022 18:39:49 GMT -6
I hope it won’t take more hail to tell you what you need to know, though. When do you expect to plant?
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Post by hedgeapple on Apr 28, 2022 22:06:30 GMT -6
I hope it won’t take more hail to tell you what you need to know, though. When do you expect to plant? If it doesn't rain, I will sow on May 5th this year.
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Post by hedgeapple on May 5, 2022 13:08:58 GMT -6
Garden torched, tilled and sown today.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on May 5, 2022 13:13:08 GMT -6
Hedgeapple,
That is great news that you met your May 5th deadline. Keep up the good work. I'm ready to start hearing about some Windridge Okra sprouts!
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Post by hedgeapple on May 27, 2022 10:10:49 GMT -6
Have ended up with several skips due to a deluge earlier in the month and one particularly greedy robin who has been plucking seedlings. This replacement looks happy:
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Post by hedgeapple on Jun 22, 2022 13:11:22 GMT -6
Well, we experienced another "microburst" here today. Tree limbs pretty well blown down everywhere, but fortunately no hail this time. Windridge has survived.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jun 22, 2022 21:17:47 GMT -6
Glad you and yours (including Windridge) are okay. I looked at the radar map over Virginia earlier this evening when I was talking on the phone to my mother (she was having a storm). It looked intense.
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Post by hmoosek on Jun 22, 2022 21:37:59 GMT -6
Yes! Glad to hear you’re ok! Okra too!
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Post by hedgeapple on Jun 25, 2022 9:37:10 GMT -6
Spent a few minutes this morning removing the Japanese beetles they have here in Virginia.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Jul 5, 2022 6:26:16 GMT -6
I don’t miss those.
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Post by hedgeapple on Jul 5, 2022 8:24:04 GMT -6
Yes, they are [insert swear word] annoying. My main concern is not what they do to my okra leaves, but what they do to my wife's roses. We have to keep her roses sprayed or the JBs destroy every bud before it opens.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jul 5, 2022 15:40:52 GMT -6
Same thing here. Plus, they eat grape leaves until the vines cast their fruit. We haven't had any grapes in years, because of Japanese beetles.
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Post by hedgeapple on Jul 13, 2022 11:59:23 GMT -6
Well, I don't have any decent pictures yet because it has been raining, but I wanted to mention that selecting for the branching characteristic last year has had an impact on Windridge this year. All of my Windridge for this year is branching to one degree or another and the stalks of the okra are already visibly much thicker than previously. Hoping this translates into more productivity once these ~47-day-old plants really hit their stride.
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