Summer 2005
Joan's Cotton Crop.
If you live where you don't have the opportunity to see cotton growing, this page will give you a chance to watch it grow. I planted the pima cotton seeds, which I got from a cotton farmer in Casa Grande, just after Easter. I live at an altitude of approximately 4000 feet in growing zone 8.
This shows the "square," which is the development stage leading to the flower,
which leads to the boll..
This is a green cotton plant, rather than the pima (the cotton itself will be green).
The "square" now encompasses the flower.
(The spiny stalk behind the flower is not a part of the cotton plant.)
Here's the pima blossom.
September 14 - This is the green cotton showing both boll and the opening.
Cotton in full bloom.
Time for picking!
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