Friday, January 8, 2010

A garden in sitiawan: cotton?






Everybody knows about cotton being grown in hot regions. Malaysia is never known as a place for cotton. There is a plant at the back of Mother in Law's house in Sitiawan. Even Kakdah herself refers to this plant as cotton.  These are collected, and will make soft and comfy pillow!!.The ripening fruits is so fluffy and wooly, that even if it is not cotton, it is almost cotton.. haha.

~bangchik
Putrajaya Malaysia




20 comments:

  1. hi, as a resident of Pakistan (a high qualty cotton growing country) I assure that this is cotton 100% :)

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  2. I love 100% organic cotton! Great photo Bangchik.

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  3. now I will be craving cotton candy. Thanks.
    Rosey

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  4. If you can produce cotton, then you can easily grow okra. Have I seen okra on your pages? Similar flowers to its relative cotton, but the pods are edible.

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  5. How cool that you can pick your own cotton balls! I like the idea of making a pillow with what grew in your mother in law's yard. I like those plants.

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  6. It is fun to see cotton growing in the fields.

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  7. Did you collect some Bangchik? There is seed inside right? I recall seeing cotton trees along those old causeway. Nice pictures :-D

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  8. I seen cotton trees, the ones that called kekabu but never seen this common cotton ones before.
    Interesting.

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  9. I’m just thinking - who much of these flowers would you need for a pillow?
    Lovely photos!

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  10. If we grew those plants here the birds would be pecking at them to line their nests.

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  11. It looks like the cotton that we have seen growing, if not the exact same cultivar as what is grown in the souther US. We have some on a wreath still in the pod, a beautiful accent. :-)
    Frances

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  12. Hortist ...Carol ...Rosey Pollen ....NellJean ......Joanne ....Corner Gardener Sue ....Janet ....Stephanie ...James Missier ...vrtlarica ...Jo ...fairegarden .

    Dear blogger, gardener friends, thanks to your regular visits and comments. I truly appreciate it.

    Most seem to agree, that is really cotton. Hortist put it as 100% confirm. But too bad that Rosey has to crave for fluffy candy. Now I really have to dig what is OKRA as Nell suggested.

    There is only one plant at the back of her house. I guess we need more that one plant to collect a sizable harvest for pillow.

    Most of the time, we use kekabu, another cotton-like producing tree. That tree can reach great height, higher that double story house. Fruits, in hundreds mature and dry up in chorus.., together. One harvest is enough for a lot of pillows.

    Someday, I will do a post on "kekabu".

    And kekabu is so good, that the old pillows given by kakdah's mom are still good, soft and comfy. Of course the cover has been changed after a few years, but the contents are original!!

    Thanks for your support!
    ~bangchik
    Putrajaya, Malaysia

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  13. How great that your mother-in-law grows some in the backyard. Here in Arizona, we have large fields of cotton growing each year. A nice soft pillow filled with cotton sounds so nice :-)

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  14. Noelle .... cotton is not grown in large scale here. Trees by the name kekabu that produce numerous cotton-like fruits, are excellent alternative to cotton here.... ~bangchik

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  15. Hmmm, looks like cotton to me. Using it is difficult though because you have to get the seeds out somehow. And you'll have to try okra! Pickled okra is the best! It's a vegetable that's used for thickening stews, but can be cooked on its own, too.

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  16. so nice! ill follow here! good day!

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  17. CHRISTINE
    TEJAN

    Thanks..., yea, we have to get the seeds out. I haven't tried Okra..., since you mentioned it, lets see if the year 2010 allows Okra to be part of the little garden here... haha.

    good day to both of you too...

    ~bangchik

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  18. Is this 'kekapu'? I have seen stuffed pillows sold along the road on the way to Sekinchan. A friend told me that cottons called 'kekapu' are planted nearby.

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  19. Never came across this plant before, but yes, lots of pokok kekabu in my hometown (Bota). In fact right now 'white fluffs' are beginning to appear on the kekabu trees!
    ps: Apa nama tempatan bagi pokok dlm gambar tu? Betul ke kapas? Menurut NellJean dlm komennya di atas, pokok kapas bersaudara dgn lady's finger (okra) ye? Baru tau :)

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