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

John shares his experience growing stevia, harvesting stevia, sowing stevia, collecting the seeds and more.

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[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..

[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.

[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.

[delbose]

stevia is 300 times sweeter than sugar

[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.

[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.