When is the booting stage of rice?

Generally speaking, after rice starts jointing, rice begins to sprout and blossom. This stage is called booting stage, and this bud will be pulled out when it is mature and become an ear of rice.

Professionally speaking, at the jointing stage of rice, the fifth internode began to elongate from top to bottom, and the young panicle began to differentiate. Therefore, the early-maturing varieties with 3 or 4 elongated internodes are already in the stage of young panicle differentiation at jointing stage. For medium-mature varieties with five elongated internodes, this is the time when young panicles begin to differentiate at jointing stage. For late-maturing varieties with 6 or 7 elongated internodes, when the second or third internode is jointing, the young panicle just begins to differentiate.

This is the legendary booting stage of rice!