![]() ![]() A photo of that record Heavy Hitter plant can be found on page one of the Heavy Hitter Okra thread on the green country seed savers website. Also: Prepare the soil, with a hole and a soil-less medium at the base of the hole. (Thank you though, for the glowing recommendation). Water the plants about an hour before transplanting, so the roots will bind and be protected. This means that his seeds have the ‘potential’ of producing another world record of that magnitude, but probably shouldn’t be expected to happen on a daily basis. Kind of like the World’s Record Tomato of the Domingo variety, which was grown by Dan Sutherland in 2018. It was well on its way to 650 when it was killed. Flavor, texture and color are other considerations when selecting the right okra seeds. Some gardeners prefer spineless varieties for easy picking. If space is limited, French Quarter Pink Hybrid Okra is suitable for container gardening. That one plant had 65 branches, each branch bearing pods, each branch is capable of bearing ten pods on average, so there was a potential for pod production in the 650 range, except for an early frost that year clipped that plant in its prime, so we will never know what it was truly capable of. Okra plants can take up a lot of space-and require full sun. Kight is referring to was my personal best record, back in 2011. Actually, that harvest of 44 pods in one day only happened once, but Heavy Hitter does average over 100 pods per season, per plant, and often hits in the 250 pod range. I’ve got to add a slight retraction of sorts to the post above. ![]()
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