…… What the heck is this? [[plant]]

[Satanta]

So I got a late start this year.

Put in, what I thought was Okra, now? Not so sure.

Okra I grew last year was single stalk with branches coming off and similar leaves AFAIR.

This thing and a couple of smaller ones are Trees. Seen no flowerss or anything.

Thick base, maybe three inches around. The smaller ones have red striping running up the plant from the base.

No idea. Grow it till it says 'Feed me!" or what?

 

[Babs]

I'm not sure, but it looks like a type of squash.

 

[Meemur]

Immature tabacco?

 

[kyrsyan]

Lens says okra.

 

[Wildwood]

Lens says okra.

I had an okra plant that looked a lot like that this year. It produced tons of limbs and a few blooms but no okra. It had four or five times as many limbs and leaves as a normal okra plant. A few years back I had a tomato plant do the same thing....tons of limbs and leaves but no fruit. Both were deformed and I started both plants from seeds. They were normal looking until they matured.

 

[duchess47]

I haven’t planted okra in years but it looks like what I remember. A lot of the seeds this year have grown into Frankenstein plants at my house. My garden is abundant but odd. Zucchini plants for example do not all look alike tho the fruit does. Some big leaves, some smaller, some more lobes.

 

[Taco Salad]

Not sure what it is but looks better than our experience. I bought a few yards of top soil from the Amish feed store this year and had the most beautiful weed come up. My wife loved the big pretty purple flower until she ran it through her app and found out it's Jimson Weed.

 

[Wildwood]

I haven’t planted okra in years but it looks like what I remember. A lot of the seeds this year have grown into Frankenstein plants at my house. My garden is abundant but odd. Zucchini plants for example do not all look alike tho the fruit does. Some big leaves, some smaller, some more lobes.

Any kind of squash is the worst for cross pollinating and producing oddly shaped fruit. It is usually decent to eat. I bought seeds for this year that were from cross pollinated fruit. I'll be buying from a different source from now on.

 

[dioptase]

I haven't grown squash for a few years, but iirc the leaves look too serrated for that...

 

[Satanta]

Well, it is okra. Must be different from what I gre or I let them go wild. Went out and was groping the plants and found some huge okra mixed in with the stem-actually hard to get at and too aged to do more than either dry for seends or cook into a soup and strain out the stringy/woody shells after before serving.

 

[goatsrus]

Some of my okra plants look like this! I have no idea why. I planted in a different spot this year, so I’m guessing it has to do with that.

 

[Satanta]

Not real sure about the bif one but the smaller ones I mentioned with the red striping on the stems is Red Okra=got a couple of new varoeties but never planted them before the move.

IIRC the ones at the other place were honless, spinerless or something and those had straight stalks with the okra voming out at the top.

I kept the side leaves and stems cut off.

Nopt sure if this variety is different-definitely in appearance but need to research how much butchering on the side stems is suitable for better dcroppingand ease of access to fruits as the fruits grow in the crooks and, like I said, they were hard to get to-like having a bunch of stems going straight up and the okra doing the same in between the stems, it's why I could not find hem.