Growing Stevia in Northern California. Sugar Alternative also called Sweet Leaf

[alexveraish]

Estevia is original from Paraguayan.

[PharodWormhair]

Sweet, bubbly fountain of youth...

[asdeal001]

hello, i just created a video about growing stevia. please watch it on bitDOTly/xUN7DV [replace "DOT" with "."]

[calin4thewin]

Can I grow this indoors?

I use subirrigation (bottle planters, from large 5 Liter bottles) so I get very good soil hydration.

[inremembranceofruth]

Thank you for relaying this John. Have noted mention of rooting hormone in some of your other videos. Did not have familiarity with it. Now looking forward to trying...in soil rather than water.

[inremembranceofruth]

Greetings John - when you mention "rooting," are you referring to placing these plant tops/tips in a bit of water...or a bit of soil? Thank you:)

[growingyourgreens]

I have successfully rooted stevia by putting rooting hormone on the cutting and sticking into soil. When I attempted it in a "cloning machine" using only water and rooting hormone, I did not have as high of a success rate..

[MrandMissConverted]

What are companion and incompatible plants for stevia?

[Myriadira]

I bought mine at Ace Hardware, how can we know if its terminator or GMO? Ask ACE? Mine died back last winter but came up again OK...no seeds in the flowers from last fall...

I pick leaves throughout the season, dry them slowly in the dry summer air on the stove for example, just leave them out on a plate...then powder them to store. The powder disolves in water pretty good if its as fine as u can get it.

thanks for sharing..

[express375]

I managed to germinate from seed in the UK.

[delbose]

stevia is 300 times sweeter than sugar

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[delbose]

stevia is 300 times sweeter than sugar

[samljer]

@delbose No the leaves are not.

the chemical inside called stevioside is 300 times sweeter.

and the leaves arent 100% stevioside.

1:1 its about the same sweetness as sugar when your using ground leaf.

Thats been my experiance.

Dont believe? use google, pick ANY site, and read it.

[khiewolf]

How many times can you say "basically" in 4 minutes?

[silbernagelm]

Please explain how you use the stevia leaves. Do you just sweeten tea, or can you bake with it?

[bluesdog88]

Hey some guy posted that Stevia is mutagen, and is a hybrid plant, theres nothing about this in the wiki, is this BS?

[skateboy159]

does stevia die off in fall?

[growingyourgreens]

here in norcal, yes, as soon as it frosts, top growth will turn brown. Will over winder underground. in a tropical location, it should grow year round.

[FatimaSole]

I love Stevia, and finally found it and I'm growing it in Spain. Did you know that it has quite a lot of medicinal properties? However, the big industry is now beginnig to get interested in this plat and they are growing it genetically modified, taking out its medicinal properties and just leaving the sweet taste, that's awful and may be the answer to why you find differences in your plants, maybe some are gmo, depending on where you bought them.

[tokyozee]

The Stevia I bought liquid form has a licorice taste to it which isn't bad but Is there a brand of Stevia that has less of a Licorice taste to it?

[DancingSpiderman]

@tokyozee I have this brown 8 ounce bottle of Whole Foods Market Stevia Extract Liquid. It does not have that licorice taste. I forget how much I paid for it. You can prolly check pricing online. I like it in my Malt-o-Meal , Yerba Mate' tea, and in home-made soda pop. Yum.

[XoreeShortRibb321]

Great info. If possible, please make a video of how to apply it in tea or cooking. Thanks!

[DMZ67Y2Y2]

@XoreeShortRibb321 I have three stevias growing. I experiment a lot with my plants. I'll take four large leaves (1 qt. water) and simmer them for about fifteen minutes. That makes the water 'sweet'. Then I add a teaspoon of loose leaf green tea. Let that simmer for about twelve minutes. Great brew, no killer sugar.

[michellerobin1979]

Thanks for the video. I have been thinking about growing stevia, maybe I will take the plung now!

[angiemalone]

would you like to start a farm in Ecuador?

[swizzlecheeks]

@angiemalone

Yes,

What can you tell me about growing Stevia in Ecuador?

[1995Nurse]

Thank you for posting this. I have 3 stevia plants now, and its the first time I've grown them. I've been trying to grow others from cuttings, but used the middle of a stem rather than the tip. Maybe that's why it didn't work. THANK YOU!

[Leidykare]

por favor traducir a español.