giant okra seeds

huckleberrys

18 years ago

Anyone have giant okra seed ?

There are at least three different varieties I've heard about:

Southern "cowhorn", Red Japanese,and "Becks".

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Bob (Seattle, Zone 8a)
18 years ago
http://www.superseeds.com/vegm-o.htm

Do a google search on "giant okra" and you will turn up several sources for it. I want to try it next spring too.

bob
georgew79
18 years ago
Hi I grew several Okra varieties Clemson spineless, perkins long pod and and variety from Thailand all produced pods roughly the same size nearly a foot long, I added plenty of fertilizer and the plants went wild growing over ten feet and branched out to nearly the same hight as the main stock. I'm trying to develope a variety that has super long pods by crossing vaious Okra relitives. I don't know how it will work out as it will take a couple of years before I know if it worked.
George W. Z5 Mo.
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The seeds should be black Â the white seeds are not ripe. If you dry immature white seeds they will flatten into an almond or brown color. Good ridged luffa seeds should be black and with a slight amount of thickness; kind of like a watermelon seed. Here is the Luffa acutangula piksi_was referring to: http://images.google.com/images?q=Luffa+acutangula&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images Luffa sold in a store will probably not have good seeds, as the fruit needs to stay on the vine longer for mature seeds. These plants take a long time to maturity, so you do not want to mess around with bad seeds. You may also want to start them indoors - possibly soon - if you have a short growing season. I cook my luffa. I know luffa can be eaten raw, but I believe it is the younger fruit that is eaten raw. Others might want to comment, but you might want to search the topic more.
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Tomato_Worm59
18 years ago
George, do you still have any seeds from any of the non-crossed varieties? I'm trying several kinds of okra myself. Not trying to make it the biggest, but just collect some varieties I don't already have.
disgett
18 years ago
I have the Southern Cow Horn okra seed it's also called Texas Long Horn Okra? What veggie do you have to trade for? Dale Florence SC

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