FREE: Gossypium barbadense / Cotton Seeds

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Gossypium barbadense, also known as extra long staple cotton as it generally has a staple of at least 1 3/8" or longer. It is a tropical, frost-sensitive perennial plant that produces yellow flowers and has black seeds. It grows as a small, bushy tree and yields cotton with unusually long, silky fibers. To grow, it requires full sun and high humidity and rainfall.

Cotton plants have a general time frame in which they grow and produce after planting. With ideal conditions, the planted cotton seed will sprout in about 5-10 days.

In about 140 days after planting or 45 days after bolls appear, the cotton boll will begin to naturally split open along the bolls segments or carpels and dry out, exposing the underlying cotton segments called locks. These dried carpels are known as the bur, and it's the bur that will hold the locks of cotton in place when fully dried and fluffed, ready for picking.