Journey of Growing Lady's Finger Plant

Seventh Week Growth Condition (2/11- 8/11)

In week seventh, both plants increase their height to 35 cm for plant A and 36.5 cm for plant B. The leave increase in their size and the petiole increase in length. the number of leaf remain attached to plants are 6 pieces of leaf in each pots. The plant also increase in the number of needle like structure on their shoot. The flower buds in pot B turn into brown colour (not shown in image) and fall. This may due to the infection of pest (caterpillar). The young leaf in pot A also bitten by insect. There is a leaf in cluster growth from the lateral branch.

2/11/2015 (Monday)

Pot A:

New flower buds are emerged from plants in pot A and fifth leaf was infected and many black dot (leaf spot disease) and white spot found on the leaf surface.

5th leaf

Flower buds at the middle of the shoot near the 10th leaf (new leaf)

Pot B:

10th leaf increase in size. The flower bud still small and located near 10th leaf at the middle of shoot.

3/11/2015(Tuesday)

4/11/2015 (Wednesday)
Pot A:

Pot B: Leaf 5 change into yellowish colour. There a re a cluster a leaf was found near the lateral branch

6/11/2015 (Friday)
The young leaf in pot A and the flower buds in pot B has been eaten by the insect(s). New leaf was emerged.

Pot A(Right) and Pot B (Left)

Pot A :the flower bud are at the middles Pot B: the flower bud become brown in colour and fall and a cluster of leaf growth at the lateral branch

Pest Axillary bud

Sixth Week Growth Condition (26/10-1/11)

The height of plants increase to 30cm in pot B and 29 cm in pot A. The 4th leaf had fall and 9th leaf (26/10/2015) and 10th (29/10/2015) emerged. The size of leaf increase and the length of leaf petioles increase too. We can also observed the flower bud and needle like structure (spines) start to form.

26/10/2015 (Monday)
9th leaf emerged in both pots. 4th leaf had changed the colour into yellowish green and 4th leaf in pot A fall.

Pot A (left) and Pot B (right)

4th leaf in pot A

Leaf number 9 emerged

27/10/2015 (Tuesday)

4th leaf in pot B fall (not shown in the picture)

Pot A (right) and Pot B (left)

Leaf infection in potA

28/10/2015 (Wednesday)

Pot A Pot B

Flower bud , we can see there are needle like structure (spines) formed at the leaf axial and also the the flower bud.

29/10/2015 (Thursday)

10th leaf emerged in both plants.

Pot A (right) and Pot B (left)

10th leaf emerged

30/10/2015 (Friday)

Due to the heavy rain, the plants in both pot A and B fall down and we just hold it back to its position by putting more soil and hold it straight.

Pot A Pot B:

Leaf 10th and flower bud

31/10/2015 (Saturday)

Pot A Pot B:

The flower bud become bigger and more flower bud come out.

Axillary bud

1/11/2015 (Sunday)

The leaves in each plant keep growing larger.

Pot B (Left) and Pot A (Right)

Pot A

Small flower bud in plant and new leaf (leaf 10th ) in pot A

Pot B

Flower buds of Lady's Finger plant in pot B

The image show the leaf 10th emerged and axillary bud in pot B

Fifth Week Growth Condition (19/10- 25/10)

In fifth week, both of the plants growth taller (25cm) and the size of the leaf increase. In this week, the second leaf in both plants wilted and the colour of third leaf start change into yellowish colour and present of black dots on the leaf surface and eventually dead and fall. The seventh (19/10) and eighth (22/10) leaf start emerging in both of the plants. Normally the flower buds will appear in the axil of each leaf beginning above the six to eight leaf stage. So we can see the flower bud start emerging at the leaf axil where it near the center of the shoot.

19/10/2015 (Monday)
In both of the pot, the second leaf was dead
New leaf start (7th leaf) emerging in both plants

Pot A: Second leaf dead (dead leaf is not shown in the picture) and the second cotyledon dead (Right). 7 seventh leaf emerged.

Pot B: Second leaf dead and fall. Seventh leaf emerged.

20/10/2015 (Tuesday)

In both of the pots, the third leaf in plant A and B start change into yellowish green colour and forming a lot of black dot on the forth leaf surface.

Pot A (Right) and Pot B (Left)