- Introduction to Stevia: Larry's Orchids has started carrying stevia plants in response to customer demand, highlighting stevia as a popular but typically expensive luxury due to the high cost of stevia powder.
- Benefits of Growing Stevia: Growing stevia at home offers a cost-effective alternative to buying expensive stevia products. It serves as a natural sweetener without impacting blood sugar levels, making it ideal for diabetics and those seeking a guilt-free sweetener.
- Cultivation Tips: Stevia plants are versatile, thriving in both full sun and partial sun (over five hours of sunlight). They respond well to regular fertilization every two to three weeks, using a balanced, all-purpose fertilizer.
- Harvesting Guidelines: It's best to harvest the lower, larger leaves of the stevia plant. If the plant starts flowering, pruning about three inches down can prevent further flowering, encouraging more leaf growth for sweetness.
- Year-Round Growth: In colder climates, stevia should be grown outdoors only in the summer and brought indoors during the frost risk months. This allows for year-round cultivation and a continuous supply of natural sweetener.
Video source: AuSable Botanicals Ltd. / Youtube
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I definitely want to grow stevia in my backyard organic garden.. how can I get a starter plant? I am featuring your YouTube video here in my Global Rumblings blog if that is o.k. with you! 🙂
how much temperature that's stevia can growth fast and healthy ?
Who know clear please tell me, I want to start plant Stevia in Asia but here is around 31*C it so hot.
Larry, I never grew anything I could harvest. I do not have a green thumb. Most of my plants have died both inside and outside. Only the ones God grows have lived. Now, I am new to the concept of growing in a bottle using the rain forest idea. Do you think stevia would be fine to grow this way using a mason jar with a plastic lid? Could I get it full enough for it to become a food (sweetener) choice to use every day? I have seen two of these types of rainforest bottle videos and it seems doable? So how many seeds would I use per jar.
Very informative and helpful. You look just like the migardener…
Hey look it's Luke the MIgardener
I sent this video to my cousin who wants to grow it, and all she could talk about was how attractive she thought you were.
hi, information from you is very valuable, i am from Pakistan, i am much conscious about maintaining my body weight, would you please help me providing information on how stevia can be grown in pakistan
Living in Scotland I cut my Stevia right back in the winter to leave about 3 to 4 inches of the bare stalk. I keep the plants in a frost free greenhouse in a slightly moist compost and sand mix. Come the spring the plants will begin to sprout new growth from its base.
I discovered this by accident one year having cut back a plant for all its leaves that left just a stump. I did not throw away the plant and it stayed damp all winter due to the lack of heat to dry its pot. The following spring I was cleaning out my old pots to add to the compost heap when I noticed my stevia plant had small shoots coming from its roots. Happy days, no more starting from seed each year, or hoping for cuttings to root.
for some reason my Stevia plant leaves are developing black parts on the leaves any advice?
where can we find stevia stems in Zambia, in case one wants to start growing it. Can stevia grow in Zambian weather conditions?
Great advice …
Stiviya PLAT dry leaves 9754171522,9630152215,,
Stevia ISN'T artificial.
Are you also MI gardener?
Wrong larry it's not artificial, its a plaint…
Thank you
If I grow it in a small pot inside, what should the pots material be?
Oh wow, it's Luke!!!! I had some stevia seeds last year from Amazon. I will never do that again. I'm pretty successful getting seeds to germinate and this by far was not a good experience. I ended up buying a plant.
looked up how to grow stevia… looking at all the videos to choose from… is that luke the MI gardener?? Luke youre a trustworthy fellow, humble beginnings here!
You’re absolutely adorable! Very informative, thank you
It's our @MIgardener
Cooking with pure stevia leaves:
https://youtu.be/at13JkkM8_o
THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION
He sounds and looks like migardner
How did i just find this video. Thanks youtube. Luke you look like a kid here, lol.