How to grow the most expensive spice in the world | Wow to | Gardening Australia
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- This farm in Tasmania’s Huon Valley grows rows of the delicate flowers that create the spice that is worth more than gold.
Saffron Crocus (Crocus sativus) are a small, somewhat unassuming flower with purple petals. But it is what’s inside that counts - the red, three-pronged stigma. When plucked and dried, this becomes what we know as saffron.
30 years ago, Nicola Noonan and her husband left their corporate jobs in Sydney, purchased a farm and began importing Saffron bulbs. While this farm produces over 100,000 saffron crocus flowers per year, that doesn’t equate to a lot of saffron strands - one kilo of dried saffron comes from 250,000 flowers!
Nicolas son Patrick is now very much involved in the farming of these fragile, finicky corms. To harvest, Patrick explains that it is a matter of selecting open, upright flowers, and gently pinching of the flower, without damaging foliage or pulling the plant from the ground. Harvesting is done by hand, which ensures accuracy, and a higher probability of the crocus repeat flowering in the season. Harvesting occurs in the morning, as early as possible - this ensures the flower is sitting upright, and the stigma has not been exposed to too much sun.
To grow Saffron Crocus a home successfully, there are some requirements - a cool, temperate climate, night-time temperatures of five degrees or below through Autumn and Winter, well-drained soils and full sun. Corms can stay in the ground from one year to the next, needing only to be dig up and divided every three to four years.
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Lovely kind lady gifted him a nice healthy plant ! How sweet !
Gonna buy a set of 10 or 20. I live in Nashville and my area has decent rich soil so I'll come back and update how it turns out
I would like to know how they turned out for ya
Nashville TN?? Or some other Nashville in Australia..... Mate?
@Ben I moved to uni lol
Still waiting for updates
I got 2.5grams from 200 bulbs in UK at 52'N, in the first 3 weeks of this October. Got to pick, (snip), as soon as the bloom opens. I find late afternoon was best.
Aah, it's so awesome we can grow this beautiful little plant in Tassie! I'm getting more and more into plants and gardening, and I've just started watching gardening Australia as much as I can ☺️🌱
I got into it last year and really trying to get my hands on these beautiful flowers.
Beautiful gesture. I bet your effort and gratefulness fill your everyday life with pure gold.
Fascinating. I've always been amused by this spice due to rarity.
Great video, amazingly beautiful landscape !!!
It's 1am, smoking weed and watching this 😊😊😊
Thanks for sharing - now I want to grow my own
Why do none of these “how to grow” saffron videos not tell you how to grow them?
Oh such a nice gift!
Just for more information the best quality of Safran is redish color. The price in Morocco for 10 grames 300 Dh, roughly 10 us dollars.
Wow, beautiful 😊
Just got one I’m so excited! 😆
Really interesting, thank you.
I am having some saffron tea now lovely
This is so labour intensive
There is a mechanized way of growing it and the machinery exists in Spain. Thats the only way Australia could grow this commercially as it is extremely labor-intensive. It would be a good crop for the South Australia region.
For those small growers, selling the bulbs would be a better way of making money than the saffron itself.
A fun fact is that Iran grows some 97% of world production.
I like the name Saffy :-)
Read song of Salomon Chapter 4 verse 14 that's where my parents got my name Saffron from. My parents called me saffy).
Till they got upset 😡 at me then they called me Saffron,
This was correct in 2014 but since that time large grow Operations have cropped up in California and Pennsylvania comprised of multi million comb grows.
For more than 100 years it's been grown in Argentina (part of Southern Hemisphere). It is an amazing plant.
Thanks for sharing Eli, it truly is amazing!
Good video. Good presentation
Ya. We extensively use it in our Indian cuisine. They grow in Cooler regions of India.
Thanks for your video!
Would love to bring it to Fiji..
Looks beautiful there
I love Australia
Wishing Saphie luck!
My name is Saffron i got Called Saphie.
Saffie. Sassafras.
Saff Sassie.
But they didn't any of them stick 🙄
They ended up calling me Saffron.
Just like the herb 🌿 in the Bible Cinnamon is also in the Bible.as a cheap spice they used in Jesus's Days for home remedies. I'm white poor and from NC
Great 👍 👌
can we do something with the flowers after we take out the red part?
Nice
A beautiful epsiode on Saffron! Good luck Saffie
'I laughed 🤣 when I seen this because my name is Saffron
And when I were little everyone wanted to call me Saffie. I'm white poor and from NC
I love my spice name. It's cool.
The reason I said poor because I've met woman over the years say u have the same name my parents were going to name me. But everyone said don't name her Saffron that's a Ritch name. Not so
It's a spice name.
My parents name me from the Bible 73 Years ago
Jesus grew healthy foods in his garden.
Song of Salomon Chapter 4 verse 14 talks about the good foods his Chef's cooked
Up with Saffron and Cinnamon.
He planted fruit trees vegetables
God created
All good things
I hope u can grow the Saffron.
I'm from America 🇺🇸
State NC
But it want grow here!
So good luck!
Planted 100 bulbs early Sept and now just started to see about 70 plants germinating. Looking for air-tight jar to store.
I live in a subtropical climate. But ima try to grow some
It's a good spice used in Moroccan cuisine we grow it in a hot area region called taliouine 150km east of Agadir city. Rural people there are becoming aware of it's value even though they don't make a lot from because of the brokers.
I'm inspired & interested to try.they're beautiful.
She is lovely & verry kindly woman
I'm from America and my name is Saffron. State NC
I'm white. Saffron came from the Bible as a cheap 🌿 same as Cinnamon
Both spices were used as a home remedies back in
Jesus's is Day!!
'I love my name Saffron too.
It's colour of Indian flag
Saffron
Also divine
Wow, is dis crop wil fit 2 rainy place?
Very beautiful place super man sms.from Srivalli in India state tamilnadu. 😷😷🙏🙏👍
How is your saffron plant the lady gifted. Is it still there?
Love safron, I eat a few tiny bits, which cost a fortune.
Why are my saffron leaves long ? The slim leaves are about 10 inches to a foot long. Would appreciate some feedback .thank you
I am realy inspired by this lecture n how n where can i get the seeds to start my demostration in Uganda pliiz i am so interested
Culinary saffron cannot grow by seed, it is a triploid hybrid plant and can grow from the corms only.
Why are my saffron leaves long and limpy? The leaves are about 10 to 12 inches long an fall over. I m in melbourne,victoria. Would appreciate some feedback. Thank you
Well that explains a thing or two.
what do you do with the petals of the beautiful flower?
The petals are good to make a tea 🍵 with them, they are said to have mental healing properties. More often than not flowers are thrown out.
Check out saffronice brand here in Australia the quality is superb and great for all the healing properties of saffron 👍
5:42 she didnt get the reference....
Suppose to pick early in morning before sun comes up
Hi tino,what chill hours does it require ,I would love to grow it ,I’m in sydney
Hope you have a good back. Lost interest when I saw the harvesting method.
@@redtobertshateshandles From what I've researched, it doesn't require chill hours, as it flourishes it's greenery after it's flowering period (August-October depending on region/USDA zone) is complete, during the winter. What it requires instead is heat to kickstart it.
Bagaimana cara beli bibit ny tko bulbes mnt impormasi nya trmksh bnyk sblmny
How can I buy some bulbs?
I want to grow in Cambodia
I just wanted to know.🙂
Your website to buy them please
In pakistan and India we use saffron a lot in dishes. Prevent dementia and alzimers
The only thing we can buy in our grocery store is Saffron rice...
They took our Saffron spice off the shelves....
Can you grow them in Melbourne
yes if it gets cold
I'm interested to plant and caltivate this saffron. I'm in Republic of South Africa Johannesburg.
Where can I find the seed?
The spice will help create employment now after Covid-19.
Vertical farming method on Saffron can be applied??????
The crocus sativus (saffron crocus) is a sterile plant, it does not produce seeds, or at least none that are fertile. Instead, they reproduce through their bulb (or rather, corm). The corms spawn off underground, using energy gathered after the flowers die off and while the "grassy" plant is active during the winter. During early spring, when the grass is almost done dying back is the best time to get and divide the corms, in my opinion. This is because the remaining grass will show you where to dig with less wasted effort and the most amount of nutrition gotten by the plant from the foliage. The baby corm are a bit obvious, they're generally miniatures of the mother corm and attached onto the mother, and some may even fall off the mother on their own, though you shouldn't be afraid to pull off any that stubbornly stick to the mother.
Corms smaller than about a 5 cm diameter tend to not flower and need to wait another year or two or three (depending on corm size) before they're big enough to support flower growth.
Corms bigger than a 5 cm diameter tend to have at least one flower, and at 11 cm or larger, can have up to 5 flowers on one plant.
Saffron crocuses can be left in their growing location without interference for up to 3 years, before they get too clustered by their children and have to be divided into proper spacing once more, otherwise it will affect flower growth.
The saffron crocus is one of the very few crocuses that bloom in the fall, most are spring/early summer bloomers, however, don't be fooled by anyone claiming that they sell the autumn crocus for saffron, because autumn crocus is the name of a different plant with similar coloring, and they're poisonous. You DO NOT want to confuse autumn crocus with saffron crocus. You want, very specifically the Crocus Sativus (it's the proper name for the saffron crocus).
So if you're going to get saffron to grow, don't be fooled by anyone selling saffron seeds (they don't exist) or autumn crocus (they are NOT saffron crocuses, and ARE poisonous). Buy corms instead, and if given the opportunity, buy larger rather than smaller. Don't pull up the corms in early foliage time, as this will stunt the corm and flower growth.
I hope this helps!
@@draguta8995 great response!
Do you grow this plant? If so, which country?
@@draguta8995 any idea where one can purchase the bulbs?
Very easy to grow in America
I am from Namibia. I havebought a few Saffron bulbs from a farmer in South Africa. Where can I get the contact details of the farmers in the video. Also where can I market my product. Please assist
I'm from America
My name is Saffron my parents got my name Saffron out
Of the Holy Bible
Song of Salomon
73 years ago.
Jesus had a garden he planted for his people. He grew Saffron and Cinnamon along with other healthy fruits and veggies to feed his people!
God bless!
@@saffronwetter2221 Interesting thanks!
Saffron is still poorly understood, I study and I can say that it is really worth attention👍
Yes I agree the Saffron spice is a cheap herb 🌿 that came out of the Bible the same as cinnamon.
Songs of Solomon Chaper 4 virus 14
Read it for yourself.
Thats where my parents got my name from.
The politicians are the ones who r getting rich off Saffron... their government are working these people for nothing in these Saffron fields they should be making 15$ pre hour or more. Instead McDonald's make more per hour then these people does this is back bracking hard work. And the government should pay them more money 💰 the politicians are using Saffron fields for their gold mine.
Their to much work that goes in the Saffron spice.
And they claim that's why it's so high. Why don't they pay these people who works the Saffron fields more money then they do? We used to vote for the government to help us now we're voting too help our governments get ritch. Because Saffron spice is not making anyone rich but the government...
The government is using the American people too make every almighty Dollar they can.
They don't care rather the people live or die anymore.
Their looking out for number one themselves.
Both parties of the government is golders and that's a fact. They are all liars and Criminal's
The Dem's don't need the people's vote. Their the biggest Criminal's
Of both parties!!
Ps i meant both parties are gold diggers...sorry!
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can saffron planted in tropical place?
they do best in colder places
@@introtwerp While tehnically speaking, what Aufa wants it's possible, it is better to grow them in, as you said, colder places, but you could grow them in a greenhouse with reduced temperatures
'I'm from America state NC we can't grow Saffron here.
My name is Saffron
The spice Saffron came from the Bible as a cheap herb 🌿 like Cinnamon both spices were used as a home remedies back in Jesus's Days.
That's where I got my name from the Bible. It's spelled just like it is in the Bible. I'm white and poor. I've had women to say u have the same name my parents were going to name me but they said don't name her Saffron that's a ritch person name.
Not so its a spice name. Just like Ginger. Sage .
Cinnamon.
All spice name are unique names but I think Saffron is the most Beautiful unique spice name
they are. Because it has so many fun nicknames.i got called all the nicknames when I were little but when my parents got made at me I knew it. Because they would say Saffron Rose you better come here.
My Grandma used too make me Saffron Cake when I were little for my Birthday 🎂
@@saffronwetter7944 hey Saffron, meaning in Indian language is Keshar
All spice names are color names. I like purple 💜 🟧 but not the bright yellow 💛 this is the Color trends for Saffron... All spice names are unique.
I'm honored tobe name Saffron.
It's a cheap herb 🌿 from the Bible the same as Cinnamon.
Both spices were used as a home remedies in Jesus's day on this earth.
God bless the workers. They work hard. Saffron is not a ritch name. It's not a Mexican Name it's not a black name. It's not a Indian name.its not a white name.
It's a Spice name just like sage. Ginger. Cinnamon.
And many other spice names.
I'm white. Poor from NC proud of my spice name.
Blessings 🙏
It's derived from Arabic for Za'afaran meaning "yellow" :)
@@nadeeshaperera4892
Here where I live its a fall Color mixed in with autumn 🍂
The yellow and orange are your fall Color's. You can see the Saffron Color's in the grocery stores.
Bright yellow and orange. Sage Cinnamon.
My parents got my name Saffron from Songs of Solomon Cheaper 4 virus 14
73 years ago.
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India being invaded many times by islamic and Europe looters for these spices : 🙄 yeah this thing is 50% reason for made me suffer .
Nice