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What machine picks cotton boll?
A cotton cutter or picker
How is cotton extracted or grown?
There is a machine that picks of the cotton seed and fluff or there are people that go along each row picking the cotton they are called Cotton Pickers cotton used to be collected by hand but now its collected by machines!
What is the seed pod of cotton called?
The seed of cotton is called 'cotton seed'.The pod that contains the cotton seed and the cotton fiber is called a 'boll'.
How do you harvest the cotton boll?
you can harvest cotton bolls by hand or by machines like this one
What are the fibers of the cotton boll used for?
What is a cotton boll used 4?
Is it called a cotton boll or ball?
It is known as a cotton ball with an "a" in ball. However, while still on the plant, is called a cotton boll, as in "boll weevil," an important pest of cotton before the advent of insecticides. After the plant blooms and gets pollinated ("squaring"), the flower closes up and produces its seeds surrounded by tough fibers to protect the seeds. It is these fibers that humans harvest and transform into cotton fabric.
How does boll weevil destroy the cotton plant?
The boll weevil has this big snout and it uses it to bite the top of the cotton plant. Then it licks out the cotton until it has no more cotton inside the ball. The boll weevil larvae and pupal do the same thing but they have to get help from the adult boll weevil to eat the top og the cotton plant.
How is a boll weevil destroy cotton?
They eat the buds off the cotton plants. The boll weevil does not destroy the cotton plant directly, it destroys the boll wherein grows the cotton and its seeds.
What is seed pod of a cotton plant called?
The seed pod of a cotton plant is called a "boll." As the cotton plant matures, the bolls develop and eventually burst open to reveal the fluffy cotton fibers and seeds inside. Each boll can contain several seeds, which are essential for the propagation of the plant.
What does boll mean?
Cotton boll is the name of the rounded seed pod of the cotton plant. The fibres harvested for cotton develop within the boll and are part of it. See the Web Link to the left for more information.
What was hard to remove from the cotton boll?
The cotton! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What is the difference in cotton-picking and cotton pulling?
Cotton picking is pulling the soft cotton out of the hard boll that has opened when the cotton is ready to be harvested. Cotton pulling is harvesting the cotton by pulling the entire opened boll, with the cotton in it.
