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GrowSeeds · February 11, 2007

I got seeds last year to grow Alabama Red Okra from Baker Creek but I think it likes warmer weather.

Kinda ot but have any of you growing okra heard of White Lightning Okra a white okra sold by the Hastings Co starting in the 1930s -40s? And do you know of anyone growing them? I ask as I wrote SSE about them and they are belived to be gone. I heard it was mostly grown in the panhanle of Florida and the costal of Ga and Al and maybe a few others.

Here is what I could find on the internet

White Lightning - Breeder and vendor: H.G. Hastings Company, Atlanta. Parentage: White Velvet. Characteristics: long, slender, white pods, tender. Similar: White Velvet. Adaptation: southern U.S. Hastings Catalog, 1939.

February 11, 2007	#11
GrowSeeds Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Somewhere in the Universe on planet Earth in the USA in Alabama - zone 8 Posts: 113	I got seeds last year to grow Alabama Red Okra from Baker Creek but I think it likes warmer weather. Kinda ot but have any of you growing okra heard of White Lightning Okra a white okra sold by the Hastings Co starting in the 1930s -40s? And do you know of anyone growing them? I ask as I wrote SSE about them and they are belived to be gone. I heard it was mostly grown in the panhanle of Florida and the costal of Ga and Al and maybe a few others. Here is what I could find on the internet White Lightning - Breeder and vendor: H.G. Hastings Company, Atlanta. Parentage: White Velvet. Characteristics: long, slender, white pods, tender. Similar: White Velvet. Adaptation: southern U.S. Hastings Catalog, 1939.