Grow okra in one large flower pot, and it will keep flowering and fruiting for over 30 days
Okra is a plant that is excellent both as an ornamental and as an edible crop. It can be planted in the yard and also grown in flower pots. It can be cultivated in warm seasons, and now is also a very good time to plant it, because its harvest period is very short; in less than a month or so, you will have flowers to enjoy.
Okra is grown by sowing seeds. The seed coat is rather hard, so you can first soak the seeds in clean water for 12 hours, and then you are ready to sow.
Just prepare a large black plastic bag or a black bucket for growing. Black material is better at absorbing heat and helps promote more vigorous growth. Holes need to be drilled in the bottom and sides of the container to maintain good drainage.
You can even grow it in a bag, but it must be fairly deep, and holes must be poked in the bottom to ensure the flower pot and soil maintain good drainage. For the soil, I choose 40% compost soil and 60% garden soil. You can appropriately add river sand or perlite, but the amount must not be too much.
After the soil is mixed, it can be used to grow okra. Fill the flower pot with soil, then level the soil. After leveling the soil, you can sow and cultivate. First poke holes in the soil surface, about six cm deep. If your flower pot is relatively small, you can plant one seed per pot. To avoid a low germination rate, I will put in several seeds, and later remove the weak-growing roots and stems.
Afterward, cover with soil appropriately, place the pot in a ventilated spot with bright light, water thoroughly, avoid the soil drying out, and keep the temperature above 20 degrees. After five days, these okra seedlings will have grown out.
For later care, you need to keep the soil moist and must not let the soil dry out. A temperature between 20~25 degrees is fine, and the environment must be ventilated and let light through.
Water regularly. After the branches and leaves grow vigorously, you can give a dilute organic fertilizer once every one to two weeks, preferably organic fertilizer water, which can promote vigorous branches and leaves and also promote flower bud formation. In about 35 days or so, it will bloom.