Okraut, is a vegetable, belongs to the okra family okra plants, it has the "vegetable king" title, origin in India, widely planted in tropical and subtropical areas. Its flowers are yellow, flowering period from May to September, like warm climate, heat resistance, land adaptability is broader, in the soil layer is deep, loose and breathable, well-drained area planting is the best.

Growth habit of okra. Coffee okra is a tropical plant, like warmth, fear of cold is the biggest feature, the ground temperature reaches fifteen degrees Celsius can be germinated, the normal growth temperature is twenty-five to thirty degrees Celsius, if the temperature is too low, okra growth is slow, the plant is dwarfed, less blooming, more flower drop. Okra is also drought-resistant, moisture-resistant, especially the results of drought, the plant not only grows poorly, the quality is also very poor.

Okra has two methods of propagation, one is direct seeding, the second is seedling. Direct sowing is generally in the spring, the ground temperature of fifteen degrees Celsius or more is good, before sowing twelve hours of seed soaking, placed in the environment of twenty-five to thirty degrees germination, about twenty-four hours after germination, sowing hole sowing is appropriate, three plants per hole, hole depth of two single to three centimeters, watering and then sowing, and then cover the soil two centimeters.

Okra seedling time is in early to mid-March, in the solarium seeding seedlings, first to prepare a good nutrient soil, six garden soil, three rotted organic fertilizer, a fine sand mixed evenly into the seedbed. Before sowing seed soaking germination, sowing according to plant spacing ten centimeters spot sowing, mulch two centimeters, maintain a temperature of twenty-five degrees Celsius, about four to five days can germinate, seedling age of thirty to forty days, cultivate a good strong seedling transplanted on time.

Field management of okra. Twenty days after sowing, water shortage is suitable for morning and evening artificial sprinkler irrigation, when the seedlings are a little larger can be sprinkler irrigation with a machine, okra summer water demand, should be before nine o'clock in the morning, and then watering after sunset in the afternoon, to avoid high temperature watering injury to the roots. On the basis of adequate fertilizer, should be appropriate fertilizer, ninety to one hundred and twenty kilograms of urea per hectare, such as seedlings can be open furrow fertilization, each time a small amount of fertilizer, to prevent early plant failure.

Harvesting okra plants can grow to about thirty centimeters, seven to nine true leaves can be flowering pods, the first tender fruit formation takes about sixty days, and then the entire harvest period of up to sixty to one hundred days, okra the entire reproductive period of up to one hundred and twenty days or so.