Growing Cotton From Seed | Part 2 | Blossoms and Bolls

[@fourdayhomestead2839]

Such beautiful plants. Cotton blossoms maturing into useable resource. Wow.

[@oneseedoneworld]

They are really pretty plants. I had to stake them all due to storms kept blowing them over, but once staked with a bamboo stick and some twine they have done great!

[@slhughes1267]

I bought a natural green producing breed of cotton. Planted the seedling into a 5 gal bucket with sandy, heavily composted soil. It loved it. I moved the bucket late in the summer: discovered it had a tap root that got snapped in the move. It survived that. It produced bolls. I have brought it into the house for the winter (western NY) to see if I can keep it and put it back out next year. Cotton gets to be small trees down in the deep south. Will also be attempting to sprout the seeds from this plant.

[@oneseedoneworld]

That's great! Hopefully it will do well for you inside over the winter. I have had good luck with seeds I've saved from my cotton. Close to 100% germination rate the last two years.