North Atlantic Okra Grex

My ongoing experiment in breeding a short season Nova Scotia adapted okra. In 2013 I travelled to Virginia and visited Southern Exposure Seed Exchange. I brought home their five earliest maturing okra varieties, which I planted all together and allowed to cross. Every year since, I've been saving seed from only the individual plants that can naturally ripen their seeds here without plastic or special coddling... to my surprise many of them can!

The plants show a mixture of traits, from their mixture of parent lines. Some pods are long, others are short and stubby. Mostly green pods, but a fair amount of red plants also. This one would be considered a landrace or grex. 30 seeds

Grown by Annapolis Seeds

Harvest the pods when fairly young for best eating. From what I've heard, most regions in Canada have an easy enough time growing okra to the immature eating stage. Ripening the pods fully for seed is what takes a longer growing season (like we have here the Annapolis Valley). Shorter season areas can still grow okra for food, provided you have enough heat to grow tomatoes or peppers.