What is whooping of plants?
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The Whooping Cranes nest in potholes dominated by bulrushes and containing other aquatic plantssuch as cattails, sedge, and muskgrass. These wetlands are divided by narrow ridges that support white and black spruce, tamarack, willows, dwarf birch, Labrador tea, and bearberry.
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Pruning or “Whooping”
On this week’s episode, Travis describes the difference between pruning or whooping okra plants. Pruning is done to cut away in dead or overgrown stems to increase production and better growth in plants. To whoop your okra means to go along the okra plants with a switch or limb and beat the sides of the okra. The theory behind it is it will stress the plant and make it produce more in the garden. Travis has planted three rows of the Jambalaya Okra variety in his garden. Jambalaya okra is a very productive, hybrid variety producing many green pods for pickling, stewing, or frying. These pods are best picked when four to six inches long. Travis did an experiment on the okra plants he planted in his garden once they reached around three foot tall. He pruned one row, left one alone, and whooped the last row. What he found, as a result, was that the row that he whooped and pruned did a little better than the row that he left alone in the garden. Also, the okra row that he pruned made it way easier to harvest. Travis does not like to use shears or any cutting tool when pruning. He likes to prune the okra by just grabbing the lateral limbs of the plant and snapping them to pull off the base of the plant. If you pull some of the skin off the base of the plant it will not hurt the plant it will end up healing over and it will be just fine. Travis is not fully convinced that pruning or whooping the plants ends up making more production. If you do not prune the plants some of the lateral stems will end up producing okra. However, pruning or whooping does make it way easier to harvest and manageable in the garden. Travis recommends trying the pruning or whooping method out in the garden to see the wonderful results for yourself that maximize production of okra plants. Either way pruning or whooping will leave your garden easier to manage, harvest, and improve production