Lovely video! Thanks for the processing tip. Here's one for you in return: the seed pods are very high in pectin. If you boil them (in a separate pot), you can use the resulting pectin-filled water to thicken your hibiscus tea (or other fruit juice) into jam.
Thank you for commenting on that! I had heard it before but forgot. I may try that to make some that's more like juice. Have you done it before? I bet it would make a really good hibiscus juice.
I have been growing these for a few years now. We're just south of Atlanta. By trial and error I learned what you just gave tips on! LOL! Except, the pen top pushing the seed pod out is a game changer. I usually grow three or four plants but even so, it's a lot of caylex to de-seed. I freeze dry mine for tea. Also, the first year I didn't pick them all soon enough and got mature seed pods so I saved them. They germinated great! So I haven't had to buy more seeds yet. I originally got mine from Baker Creek.
Thank you for that feedback! I hope it can help others skip the trail and error that we went through 😂 the pen hack really is a total game changer. But I've learned that it doesn't work well if you have to refrigerate the calyces first before you can get to them. It works best fresh from picking. That's awesome that you got a much of seeds. I just bought some for spring because I'll probably pick mine right up until frost. The herb costs so much more than the seeds so it seemed like a good trade off to me.
Yeah I probably lost 4-5 when I planted. And probably that many before. They seem pretty fragile until they really get established. Or maybe I'm just a little too neglectful 😂
Good tip on using the pen for removing the seed pods! We had a great roselle year here. It was drier than usual in N FL. All 3 ponds are all down at least 6ft on our property.
Same here for the last couple of months. We finally got a little rain this past week and boy was I glad to not have to water for a week or so. They're producing like crazy here too!
Thank you for the pen cartridge tip! I grew 2 plants in August and they are now producing fruit, (the ones from spring caught and succumbed to powdery mildew.) I live in FL. I'm going to try and over winter these to have a jump on next year and also plant more in the spring. I love roselle tea but I've been buying it. Would you please share your roselle holy basil tea recipe?
That'll be an interesting experiment! For the tea, I do 2-3 tablespoons dried hibiscus and 4 tablespoons tulsi per 1/2 gallon of water. Put the herbs in the jar, cover with hot but not boiling water. Steep overnight and strain in the morning. Sweeten as desired and refrigerate. ❤️
Mine also fell when that came through . Looked like someone stepped on all of it. Lol. I'm in north Louisiana not sure where you are. This year has been the biggest crop I've ever had. One of them was about 11' tall the limbs hang to the ground. I'm only growing for seed this year. That's a neat trick to get the berries out. Great video.
I can’t believe how good your tool worked! I’ll have to get one of those. You know we love our hibiscus over here too. This was a really good video, everything one needs to know about growing hibiscus.
WOW! Incredible video! You have covered just about everything to grow these plants. Re: staking hibiscus plants - Can you put stakes in various places and run a cord across all the stakes like you would with grapes, and then tie the plants to the cord? That seedpod trick is awesome!!! BTW, *love* your braid!
Thank you so much for the kind feedback! I'm not sure how well that staking method would work because of how big, bushy, and heavy the plants get. It might be worth trying though. The de-seedpodding hack really is amazing! I have figured out that it works best as soon as the calyces are picked though. If you can't get to them immediately and have to refrigerate the calyces for a day or 2 they don't really pop out well at all.
I have been debating on whether I wanted to grow roselle or not and on a whim when ordering Mexican food I bought a cup of agua de jamaica instead of a soda. I mixed it with some lemonade. It was pretty good so I just bought seeds for two kinds of roselle, one with red calyxes, the other with white ones from a few sources yesterday because I heard that they can be temperamental and unreliable. I thought a few sources may give me a better gene pool when I save seeds next year. I will have to make it with Tulsi also.
@thislovelylittlefarmhouse I had gotten some different tea blends from the tea house in Jackson. All were good. But I found myself going back to green tea with it. Oh! elder berry flower juice with lemon and the hibiscus was really good too....sweeten with honey.
@@catherinerouchon7723 that sounds really good! What is elderberry flower juice? Just tea made from elderberry flowers or is there more to it than that?
You are a wealth of information! What a beautiful plant. I wonder how well it would do here in Montana? I don't have the greenest of thumbs. I would love to try it though. Thanks for the video. ❤
Jack of all trades, master of none 🤣 seriously though, the list of hobbies and things I want/think I can do is ridiculous lol But I just want to do all of the things! Google said an average of 95 days between first and last frost so I'd guess you'd have a really hard time getting a good crop even with starting seeds indoors. It would be a fun experiment to try though! As far as a green thumb...I've literally done absolutely nothing to them since planting except water and pick. Thank you for being here!
You can challenge yourself to implement a few things that would enhance your potential… 1. Prep the area by double digging and add plenty of compost giving plenty of room for those roots to grow! If you include a fair amount of cold manure (rabbits, goats, alpacas) as they compost they create a bottom heat. 2. Include either worm castings or kelp meal in your soil amendments- both help plants better deal with temperature swings and can lengthen their life in frost or drought. 3. After established and soil is warm, mulch with more compost and top that with rocks/brick. If you have BIG rocks/boulders set up a northern wall (even better to also include west side) behind the plant(s) this will act as a heat sink for the southern (and morning eastern) sun, along with your stone/brick at base. (Look at how Sepp Holzer does this in the Austrian Alps to raise citrus trees!) I was successfully able to grow fantastic grapes my nurseryman assured me was ‘only an ornamental in our climate’ and I implemented all these! Challenge accepted & Outcome:SUCCESS! I hope it works well for you too!!
@ Happy to share, I hope next year you’ll be able to share your successes!! I also have loads of gardening videos I’ve organized on my page for years, they may be additional resources you appreciate…
I love growing Roselle aka Hibiscus. I am in Zone 7A and usually start my seeds indoors and then transfer them outdoors when the temperature warms up. My crop this year was destroyed by squirrels. In my wildest dreams, I would never think that squirrels eat these. This is the first destruction, and I have to get ahead of them next season. Running out of ideas.
Oh man, that would be so hard to deal with! I wouldn't have thought squirrels would get them either. I wonder if bird netting around the plants would help?
I lost ever half of mine to what I thought was gophers, but I guess it could’ve been squirrels. Mine just had a small hole next to the root ball, and whatever it was just ate all the roots, and the plants died one by one. We also had the wind problem here in Oklahoma, so I think I’m gonna plant mine in our poly tunnel again and try to prune them down a little this year because, we’ve done that in the past, there’s so much shade that they grow super tall and hit the ceiling of the poly tunnel. At least they’re protected from wind in there.
@ I know, right? We have really thick clay soil here, but the drought I think has the gofers walking across the pasture to find our raised bed dirt with water every day. They seemed to be smaller holes than a gofer, though. At our old house with sandy soil, we battled gofers way worse…
I borrowed my mom's big dehydrator which worked really well. I also air dried some which seems ok. I think it would've been better if I had a little fan blowing on them to air dry because we're pretty humid here. I've got a whole lot more to do and I'll be dehydrating them. But the air drying is definitely a viable option! I did the first go round whole but for the rest I think I'm going to pulse them in the food processor first for quicker drying and easier usability.
I don't have any mature seeds to sell (that would be awesome!) but both of those places that I linked in the description had seeds in stock when I posted the video a couple of days ago. The plant good seed company is a better value for the price for sure!
Lovely video! Thanks for the processing tip. Here's one for you in return: the seed pods are very high in pectin. If you boil them (in a separate pot), you can use the resulting pectin-filled water to thicken your hibiscus tea (or other fruit juice) into jam.
Thank you for commenting on that! I had heard it before but forgot. I may try that to make some that's more like juice. Have you done it before? I bet it would make a really good hibiscus juice.
Thank you! I am starting to grow these this year- I have 25 seeds. Very excited, thanks for the tips!
I hope they grow well for you! I'm planning to grow a whole bunch more this summer ❤️
Excellent info
Thanks, I'm glad you found it helpful!
Well explained!! That's all I need to grow my own Hibiscus Sabdariffa. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome, I hope you have a bountiful harvest!
I have been growing these for a few years now. We're just south of Atlanta. By trial and error I learned what you just gave tips on! LOL! Except, the pen top pushing the seed pod out is a game changer. I usually grow three or four plants but even so, it's a lot of caylex to de-seed. I freeze dry mine for tea. Also, the first year I didn't pick them all soon enough and got mature seed pods so I saved them. They germinated great! So I haven't had to buy more seeds yet. I originally got mine from Baker Creek.
Thank you for that feedback! I hope it can help others skip the trail and error that we went through 😂 the pen hack really is a total game changer. But I've learned that it doesn't work well if you have to refrigerate the calyces first before you can get to them. It works best fresh from picking.
That's awesome that you got a much of seeds. I just bought some for spring because I'll probably pick mine right up until frost. The herb costs so much more than the seeds so it seemed like a good trade off to me.
Omg thank you! I planted 6 & only 2 made it to maturity 😩. You made me feel so much better.
Yeah I probably lost 4-5 when I planted. And probably that many before. They seem pretty fragile until they really get established. Or maybe I'm just a little too neglectful 😂
Ok wow nature just gave you an incredible video. Trees falling and you just take a second and continue. Awesome ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
It was pretty crazy! Thank you for watching ☺️
Good tip on using the pen for removing the seed pods! We had a great roselle year here. It was drier than usual in N FL. All 3 ponds are all down at least 6ft on our property.
Same here for the last couple of months. We finally got a little rain this past week and boy was I glad to not have to water for a week or so. They're producing like crazy here too!
What FUN ! Thank you so much, your awesome 👏
❤️
Thank you very much for this video, it is very informative.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for the pen cartridge tip! I grew 2 plants in August and they are now producing fruit, (the ones from spring caught and succumbed to powdery mildew.) I live in FL. I'm going to try and over winter these to have a jump on next year and also plant more in the spring. I love roselle tea but I've been buying it. Would you please share your roselle holy basil tea recipe?
That'll be an interesting experiment! For the tea, I do 2-3 tablespoons dried hibiscus and 4 tablespoons tulsi per 1/2 gallon of water. Put the herbs in the jar, cover with hot but not boiling water. Steep overnight and strain in the morning. Sweeten as desired and refrigerate. ❤️
Mine also fell when that came through
. Looked like someone stepped on all of it. Lol. I'm in north Louisiana not sure where you are. This year has been the biggest crop I've ever had. One of them was about 11' tall the limbs hang to the ground. I'm only growing for seed this year. That's a neat trick to get the berries out. Great video.
Yes, they looked terrible! Thankfully they bounced back really quickly though!
That's going to be a lot of seeds!
This is very good when you have urine problems , drink this like four cups a day.
I can’t believe how good your tool worked! I’ll have to get one of those. You know we love our hibiscus over here too. This was a really good video, everything one needs to know about growing hibiscus.
I was shocked how well it worked and how much it speeds up the process of deseeding the calyces! Just take apart a couple of pens 😂
WOW! Incredible video! You have covered just about everything to grow these plants.
Re: staking hibiscus plants - Can you put stakes in various places and run a cord across all the stakes like you would with grapes, and then tie the plants to the cord?
That seedpod trick is awesome!!!
BTW, *love* your braid!
Thank you so much for the kind feedback! I'm not sure how well that staking method would work because of how big, bushy, and heavy the plants get. It might be worth trying though.
The de-seedpodding hack really is amazing! I have figured out that it works best as soon as the calyces are picked though. If you can't get to them immediately and have to refrigerate the calyces for a day or 2 they don't really pop out well at all.
Great tip about tool! We've all enjoyed hibiscus tea around my house.
It speeds up the processing soooo much!
I'm wanting to grow some I live in south Mississippi
I have been debating on whether I wanted to grow roselle or not and on a whim when ordering Mexican food I bought a cup of agua de jamaica instead of a soda. I mixed it with some lemonade. It was pretty good so I just bought seeds for two kinds of roselle, one with red calyxes, the other with white ones from a few sources yesterday because I heard that they can be temperamental and unreliable. I thought a few sources may give me a better gene pool when I save seeds next year. I will have to make it with Tulsi also.
Good luck! The hibiscus + tulsi tea is definitely worth a try!!
Thank you for this video full of info on roselle growing. Just subscribed.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you found the video helpful❤️
Ohmygosh what a thorough educational video! Thanks, I didn't know about this plant, you have given excellent information here 👍🏼👍🏼💘
I'm so glad you found it helpful! It's such a beautiful and useful plant! ❤️
I need to know when you came into my garden and got inspired on what not to do. Lol
😂
Tried the tea for the first time last year. Loved it. I was mixing it with other teas too.
We're totally addicted. I figure there are much worse things to be addicted to 😂 What's your favorite combo?
@thislovelylittlefarmhouse I had gotten some different tea blends from the tea house in Jackson. All were good. But I found myself going back to green tea with it.
Oh! elder berry flower juice with lemon and the hibiscus was really good too....sweeten with honey.
@@catherinerouchon7723 that sounds really good! What is elderberry flower juice? Just tea made from elderberry flowers or is there more to it than that?
Wow! I’m going to be trying this plant.
It's such a pretty plant and so fun to grow!
You are a wealth of information! What a beautiful plant. I wonder how well it would do here in Montana? I don't have the greenest of thumbs. I would love to try it though. Thanks for the video. ❤
Jack of all trades, master of none 🤣 seriously though, the list of hobbies and things I want/think I can do is ridiculous lol But I just want to do all of the things!
Google said an average of 95 days between first and last frost so I'd guess you'd have a really hard time getting a good crop even with starting seeds indoors. It would be a fun experiment to try though! As far as a green thumb...I've literally done absolutely nothing to them since planting except water and pick.
Thank you for being here!
You can challenge yourself to implement a few things that would enhance your potential…
1. Prep the area by double digging and add plenty of compost giving plenty of room for those roots to grow! If you include a fair amount of cold manure (rabbits, goats, alpacas) as they compost they create a bottom heat.
2. Include either worm castings or kelp meal in your soil amendments- both help plants better deal with temperature swings and can lengthen their life in frost or drought.
3. After established and soil is warm, mulch with more compost and top that with rocks/brick. If you have BIG rocks/boulders set up a northern wall (even better to also include west side) behind the plant(s) this will act as a heat sink for the southern (and morning eastern) sun, along with your stone/brick at base. (Look at how Sepp Holzer does this in the Austrian Alps to raise citrus trees!)
I was successfully able to grow fantastic grapes my nurseryman assured me was ‘only an ornamental in our climate’ and I implemented all these!
Challenge accepted &
Outcome:SUCCESS!
I hope it works well for you too!!
@@TrickleCreekFarm wow! Thank you so much for this information, I really appreciate that. ❤
@ Happy to share, I hope next year you’ll be able to share your successes!! I also have loads of gardening videos I’ve organized on my page for years, they may be additional resources you appreciate…
Do they grow back every year or have to replant
In our climates, they're grown as an annual. They won't come back.
I love growing Roselle aka Hibiscus. I am in Zone 7A and usually start my seeds indoors and then transfer them outdoors when the temperature warms up. My crop this year was destroyed by squirrels. In my wildest dreams, I would never think that squirrels eat these. This is the first destruction, and I have to get ahead of them next season. Running out of ideas.
Oh man, that would be so hard to deal with! I wouldn't have thought squirrels would get them either. I wonder if bird netting around the plants would help?
I lost ever half of mine to what I thought was gophers, but I guess it could’ve been squirrels. Mine just had a small hole next to the root ball, and whatever it was just ate all the roots, and the plants died one by one. We also had the wind problem here in Oklahoma, so I think I’m gonna plant mine in our poly tunnel again and try to prune them down a little this year because, we’ve done that in the past, there’s so much shade that they grow super tall and hit the ceiling of the poly tunnel. At least they’re protected from wind in there.
@@lmullens75now that you mention gophers, we have a lot of moles. I wonder if they eat roots 🤔 the crazy things you have to battle when gardening!
@ I know, right? We have really thick clay soil here, but the drought I think has the gofers walking across the pasture to find our raised bed dirt with water every day. They seemed to be smaller holes than a gofer, though. At our old house with sandy soil, we battled gofers way worse…
Do you dry them in any special way?
I borrowed my mom's big dehydrator which worked really well. I also air dried some which seems ok. I think it would've been better if I had a little fan blowing on them to air dry because we're pretty humid here. I've got a whole lot more to do and I'll be dehydrating them. But the air drying is definitely a viable option! I did the first go round whole but for the rest I think I'm going to pulse them in the food processor first for quicker drying and easier usability.
Migardener has the seeds too
Good to know...thanks for sharing!
Can we get the seeds from you thanks !!!
I don't have any mature seeds to sell (that would be awesome!) but both of those places that I linked in the description had seeds in stock when I posted the video a couple of days ago. The plant good seed company is a better value for the price for sure!
@thislovelylittlefarmhouse thanks!!
You're welcome! Good luck on growing your hibiscus!
Hi
Roselle Hibiscus affects the estrogen hormone system. If you are pregnant or trying to be, it should be avoided.
That's interesting and not something I've ever heard before. I'll look into that. Thanks!