Sharjah green-fingers does it again, grows smallest plant to produce record okras

He has done it again. A Sharjah resident who entered  the Limca Book of World Records for growing the longest lady finger, is  applying for a new record.

Sudhish Kumar has now managed to grow two okras, or lady fingers, on a plant just one-third its size.

Measuring just 1.5 inch tall, the plant could well be the smallest in the world to produce an okra.

Speaking to Emirates 24l7, Kumar said he was first shocked to see the flower on the tiny plant.

“It was just two weeks since I had planted the seeds that were sent to me from India. But what I saw on Thursday really shocked me.  The plant was just an inch and a half tall, much smaller than my finger and it already had two lady's fingers on it. Now the vegetables have outgrown the plant - three times its size,” he said.

The okra is being grown in Kumar’s balcony in Sharjah and is set to again get into the record books.

Emirates 24l7 had reported in November 2012 about the 16.3 inch okra that Kumar had grown in Sharjah.

Although he managed to get into the Limca book, he is still awaiting inspection from officials of the Guinness Book. “They have already responded to my mails, but no official has yet come to inspect the plant. I am preserving the longest okra, although it is dying out,” he adds.

Kumar has already taken pictures and videos of the smallest plant and mailed it to  officials at the Limca Book of Records. “I am expecting a response from them soon,” he adds.

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