COTTON

Direct seeded in farm north of Liberia on highway 1. Seeds are usually pretreated with hot water or scarified so that wild cotton will germinate readily. Usually sown in October - Novemeber so it can mature by spring. Short daylength ensures wild cotton will set flower and seed. Began in year 2016.

Field plots F&B Road, College Station, USDA-ARS personnel: Curator James Frelichowski, Technician Janna Love. Descriptors and images are a newly standardize set.Plants are typically started in greenhouses on Arpil first, then transplanted April 15. Gossypium species, if used, are started earlier and larger plants transplanted.

Direct seeded in farm by INIFAP station. Seeds were usually pretreated with hot water or scarified so that wild cotton will germinate readily. Usually sown in October - Novemeber so it can mature by spring. Short daylength ensures wild cotton will set flower and seed. Ended in year 2015.

Assessment of an accession based on collective experiences by cotton curators and collaborators and cooperators of the US National Cotton Germplasm Collection

Seed retrieved from vault, left at room temperature 48 hours, then sown 0.5 inch or 1 cm deep. Moistened as needed, slight drying cycles allowed until emergence