a combining form meaning âseizure,â used in the formation of compound words: epilepsy. -lepsy.
For Missouri, irrigated cotton should produce around 20 to 22 nodes during the season, while nonirrigated cotton may produce 17 to 18. These values may vary from year to year and field to field, yet they are still a good standard on which to base a decision.
At some point late in the fruiting period, the cotton plant starts to âcut out.â Cotton has reached âcut outâ when the top bloomâin the first position away from the stemâis within 5 nodes of the top of the cotton plant. The plants response to âcutoutâ is to use the produced carbohydrates to mature the bolls on the plant.