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Good Gene, you've been hearing the controversy from the American Eagle, but we're talking about cotton before it becomes your jeans.
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I'm with Brian Adams here in a field in Tennessee. This is cotton before harvest. I'm holding the bull
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and you've got every stage of maturity from after it starts to become a big plant. Till then. Talk to me, Brian.
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Yep. So cotton, um, cotton, oddly enough for viewers I guess, that are outside of cotton country, cotton's actually a perennial, it's a tree by nature,
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manages an annual every year long story that we can go into later. But the marketable fruit,
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obviously Damien's holding, is a bowl. And at the end of the year when that's material, it will break open and you'll get that dry fiber.
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You have to do that with hormone and chemical to get it there. Again, it's perennial managed
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as an annual, and that's how you get it there. But it starts with what's called a square, and it's the most poorly named fruiting structure
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ever because it's not a square. It's not a square, it's a triangular prism. Um, but you start and you open it up
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and Damien, you open that one up and see what it looks like. And The bottom of it, You see
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that very immature flower inside this Bracket. That is essentially what becomes this,
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Uh, it will give rise to that. So once you get past that, what we call a square, that immature flower will
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eventually turn into a white flower. Once that white flower emerges 24 hours, it'll pollinate become a pink flower.
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Okay. All right. At that point, it's been pollinated. After that, you'll see it die off into what we call a bloom tag.
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It'll just fall right off. And then as you open that up, you've got the, the very beginnings of that right there.
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So that is kind of the progression of what the fruity are. It comes, it becomes a bull, and you talk about the number
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of locks, which is these little things on here. It almost looks like it could be a, an almond or something like that.
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Yep. It opens up. And then this plant, which is almost like a tree, as you said, Brian will dry down and by October,
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October in this part of the world, October Here in West central Tennessee, this will dry down. It'll look like a bunch of twigs or almost small trees. Yep.
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With a bunch of cotton, uh, white fiber cotton on 'em. And then the cotton machine comes through and harvests 'em. Absolutely. It's 1st of August
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right now when we're doing this, and they're harvesting right now in the coastal bend to Texas.
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Yeah. So we'll be another almost two months out to harvest this, because obviously this is still a green tree.
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And then roughly how many pounds of cotton we gonna get outta here? How many pairs of jeans? I don't know how many pairs of jeans,
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but 12 to 1500 pounds of cotton is, uh, you know, 1200 is probably the average around here. So 1200 pounds of cotton comes off of every acre
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and, uh, let's call it pound, about a pound and a half per pair of jeans. So we'll call that 800 pair of jeans off of this right here.
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Yep. Anyway, his name's Brian Adams. My name's Damian Mason. We're coming at you from a field.
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We're talking about cotton. Now you know a little bit about the reproduction. It starts as a seed grows into a plant,
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produces all the stuff that Brian showed You tell with a bull this opens up, cotton is there, and that's when it starts looking like a whole bunch
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of small trees that are dead with just a bunch of cotton on them. And then it becomes your jeans.
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