As per the title and this photograph, am I growing it correctly?
Thank you for any input!
- Kind Regards, Zhan
Okra: Am I doing it right?
i have never seen anyone grow okra in the house. My okra usually has roots about a foot deep. Chances are that your plants will not bear fruits. It needs to grow outside in the ground.
Okra has a deeper root system than most vegetables and the stalks get large. Are you trying to grow them indoors to bear fruit or are you going to plant them out? I don't plant mine indoors, but I direct sow it as it likes HOT weather, which is plentiful here in Texas.
Heighth is lack of strong enough light. They are massively crowded and in need of thinning. Heavy feeders- these are short on nutrients, and they love heat- 80* . If you had started 3 seeds in a gallon bucket you would have been fine for growing them. Chuckl. They DONT like to be transplanted a lot- you have one shot the first week they sprout to get them in the ground in time to keep on growing without chances slimming the longer they arent planted out.
They don't look like they are inside to me....more like a covered patio, maybe...? They are really crowded tho.
My view is by cellphone size- tiny. thanx 1lisac
Thank you all for your input; they are indeed on a veranda.
I gave them a bit of fertilizer and they have started growing
more leaves on the middle and lower nodes of the stem.
I will experiment with this batch and see if I can make them
fruit from within their pots, otherwise I will try to transplant.
Kind Regards!
The added fertilizer might make them fruit. We'll see.
Okra plants are enormous, deep-rooted, and difficult to transplant. I soak my okra seeds in water for 48 hours, then plant them directly into the garden once the ground is warm. Once they come up, I even out the spacing by moving some of the small plants around until they are all about 2 feet apart in the rows. They get so big I really should put them 3 feet apart - but that's always hard to imagine when they are small seedlings.
Any transplanting to make the spacing even is done while they are still only about 2 inches tall, I take a lot of dirt with each transplant, and I'm happy when they survive (not all do) as the roots run DEEP even at that size. Sorry, but I don't think they can be grown successfully in shallow containers and as close together as you have them.
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