This is what cotton picking looks like, something many may be seeing for the first time. Cotton can be pulled into long strands, and traditional hand-picking ensures higher quality with fewer impurities. Though it looks like a flower, the fluffy white part isn’t the real blossom. The true flowers later form green oval bolls, which split open to reveal cotton. Cotton fibers are protective coverings for seeds, so when you pinch it, you’ll find black specks inside. Large-scale farming now uses mach