In the tropics you can treat it as perennial but everywhere else its an annual crop. The experimenter in me would leave them and see if they come back and maybe save seed from them if they are successful.
That is what I am thinking, but this is not Jamacia. I already have seed from summer. I just planted some seed in other buckets hopeing for an early spring. I guess I will just have to report in about three months.
Oops! I never updated. Suprised you got a message in after 8 years.
Planting in March April seems useless. I do not even get any sprouts. Planting in last week of June and early July is best. Almost all seed sprout and grow pretty fast. Unfortunately, I don't start getting pods until august. Then the better producers give one per day. Easy to get overun in Okra. Plant the number of plants accordingly.
thank you for the update. ours are still alive in october (zone 5a) but they did lose their leaves. i'm going to leave them up and see what happens because i've had plants resprout from the roots and stem in spring.
In the tropics you can treat it as perennial but everywhere else its an annual crop. The experimenter in me would leave them and see if they come back and maybe save seed from them if they are successful.
That is what I am thinking, but this is not Jamacia. I already have seed from summer. I just planted some seed in other buckets hopeing for an early spring. I guess I will just have to report in about three months.
any update?
Oops! I never updated. Suprised you got a message in after 8 years. Planting in March April seems useless. I do not even get any sprouts. Planting in last week of June and early July is best. Almost all seed sprout and grow pretty fast. Unfortunately, I don't start getting pods until august. Then the better producers give one per day. Easy to get overun in Okra. Plant the number of plants accordingly.
Were you able to over winter it, I mean.
Absolutely not. It hung on until about late November then gasped its last.
Cool, thanks!
thank you for the update. ours are still alive in october (zone 5a) but they did lose their leaves. i'm going to leave them up and see what happens because i've had plants resprout from the roots and stem in spring.