--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "baronthegreat" <luckylucy39@...> wrote:
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> Not only do I know what it is, I have done it. Cotton is a delicate plant and in order to get a good stand the farmer planted way too many seeds. If all or most came up and made a seedling they were too thick (too close together). So some of them had to be chopped out to make the correct number of plants for optimal production. Of course grass and weeds were also removed at the same time.
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> Rick
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Choppin' cotton or choppin' corn it's all the same thing. Those little plants fight each other for soil, water and sunlight. You have to thin them out to give the survivors "room to grow." It's probably where that saying comes from. If you don't thin them out you'll wind up with a stunted crop.
