Pruning okra

I'd curious as well. My okra plants are about 18 inches tall right now, growing like a weed in this summer heat

If I plant now will okra grow through the late summer and into the fall? how late in the fall?

Okra will produce until the frost get them.

My grandmother recently asked if I had whipped my okra. Apparently, whipping it (which she described as literally beating it with a broom) makes it produce more okra and fewer branches/leaves. So I guess there is something to the idea of pruning it, although I've always had more than enough without doing so.

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Old knee grow man I used to rabbit hunt with told me you had to whoop okra to make it grow. He'd whack the lower stems off with a stick as the plant grew. Me, I'm white. I take a pair of pruning sheers and snip them off. Seems to be a lot easier. But however you do it taking the lower stems off up close to the plant is the way to go.

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them old farts....black and white cna teach you a thing or two if youll just listen.
Apparently youve figured that out too.

There may be some validity to the whipping thing. In animals traumatic tearing and ripping causes vasoconstriction and thus less bleeding as compared to sharp dissection. This is why sheep herders use a plier like tool to crush and snip off the testicles at the same time instead of just cutting them off with a sharp knife. Maybe the whipping has a similar effect on the okra plants?

I googled Whipping Okra and that is the first thing that came up. Apparently Coot was not the only okra whipper.

Yeh I keep mine pruned too. Okra makes the most the hotter and drier it is. You get some cooler rainy days it barely makes any. I always tell people that ask me about gardening if you can't grow okra you need to give up gardening.

Plant okra in foodplots deer eat the crap outta okra