Cotton

 Oh let me tell you all about cotton, rows and rows of cotton.  Today we took a cotton farm tour and it was so interesting.  The cotton is planted in March and is soon to be harvested.

Cotton has been grown in Arizona since the early 1900's

 

The seeds are planted about six inches apart and once the plant is mature it blooms a beautiful yellow flower.

The yellow flower then turns purple and dries up and falls off

 

 

 When the purple flowers drop off the little ball has developed.

The little balls grow into nice cotton balls, at this time they turn off the water and let them dry and soon the balls pop open to display the cotton.

There are two types of cotton a short and a long, here they grow mostly short but below is a long

What a wonderful tour, now we know all about the cotton.