Check out more herb guides: https://bit.ly/3vEx2cJ Cilantro is a crazy popular summer crop, but tends to struggle in summer, bolting early and ruining it’s flavor (and your salsa). Here are some of my best tips on caring for cilantro in ANY season and ANY type of growing environment.
00:00 – Intro
00:48 – Cilantro Overview
01:36 – Varieties and Seeds
02:06 – Sowing Cilantro
03:05 – Cilantro Growth Cycle
03:26 – Reducing Bolting
05:42 – Harvesting Cilantro
06:47 – Bonus Bolting Tips
07:33 – Cilantro for Pollinators
07:58 – Using Coriander
09:11 – Outro
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Does it taste like soap to you?
i feel like i dont have enough space or sunlight outside. what do i do?
When I grew some on my balcony when I lived in a cold North American city, toward the end of fall I'd let it go to seed completely and just let all the seeds fall into the planter. Then sometime next spring it was completely full of cilantro again. Didn't even need to collect the seeds and sow it.
Our cool crop growing season is pretty limited in the piedmont of North Carolina – have you heard of a plant with a flavor very similar to cilantro that loves heat called – “Vietnamese” cilantro? I found it at a farmer’s market once and it worked great- but haven’t found it elsewhere.
One your forget, know that cilantro is a plant that will bolt,lol. I had no idea tell mine just started doing it over the last fourish days. 🙁
Thank you dear
I don’t know why it takes so bloody long to get to the point.
My friend gave me a big zip lock bag of cilantro seeds she got at the farmers market but they are coated in a pink substance. I only grow organic so I have never planted them because I have no idea why they’re pink. Anyone know???
i really suck at growing cilantro, and parsley. love it and keep trying . hopefully I have failed enough and get a good plant
1:35 is that the same thing that make some people hate DURIAN? :/
Excellent education! 🙂
Great vid! I have really struggled to grow cilantro here in Hawaii. I'm thinking of growing some from seed and maybe start in November or December, hoping that the cooler weather will help out. Mahalo nui loa!
I really dislike cilantro but use the seed as seasoning in lots of dishes including our own homemade sausage seasoning.
Another excellent video!!!
I'm one of those who feel the soap taste, from the cilantro, but strangely I find the seeds have a nice citrus flavour. I like those.
I love that you've shown it growing in every stage. Cilantro was one of the very few things that I grew successfully back when I had no place to grow shit–just a little strip of dirt beside a house. And harvesting the seeds just made me feel like I was doing something very cool. It sucks that so many folk can't stand it. More for me, though.
I grow mine in post and they small
Swallowtail caterpillars ate my first cilantro and for even accidentally implying potential pest removal people basically decided I was caterpillar hitler.
So I wasn't able to get much information on that forum.
I'm wondering, is there a way to REPEL butterflies? I think my pollination is fine with bees. So no need to attract things ill have to get rid of.
i always have trouble growing parsley…cilantro/coriander no issues.
Called "Dhania" in South Africa
Thank you. I did not know about the temperature thing or mowing it down. I am going o try to grow it again. 🙂
So you had mentioned saving the seeds for next year. Would saving in an envelope suffice? or is there something more involved I'm missing?
i love coriander(the seed) but the leaves taste like dish soap to me 🙁
I hated cilantro when I was young. I can't live without it after moving to the US lol
I have tried a handful of times to grow Cilantro in an herb garden and it has always bolted withing a week of transplanting it. I've never tried to grow it from seed, so maybe I'll give it another go. Thanks for the tips!