True Comfrey 50 Seeds (Symphytum officinale) Non GMO, Heirloom

I Love my sprouts. I soaked my seeds in water in tea cup, plastic wrap it. In my fridge for a few days. (Forgot about it was in my bottom compartment) almost a week. I noticed the tip of the black seeds became white. Nervous thought it got moldy. I chanced it and sprinkled them over my container/miracle grow dirt. Then sprinkle a little more dirt on top. 3-5 days later. Keeping it moist. It has been sunny and warm. I believe the weather helps. May/June. It truly sprouted. I’m a proud plant mom . Thank you . I highly recommend this seller. Im excited to use these medicine plants. Hey, I was hesitant from reading some of these reviews, saying that it did not sprout… But I’m super happy with my results… I only used half of the seed packet. I anticipate sharing my plants with all my family and friends… Perfect gifts for any occasion holistic healing. It will be a new experience for me for sure.

There were many crushed seeds in my pack but I still received 52 whole seeds to plant, so they must put extra in. Of those 52, only 18 germinated. The 18 that grew, germinated and grew very quickly (within 2 weeks) but I waited 40 days to be sure after reading about many people having slow germination times. I did follow the instructions and cold stratified the seeds in the refrigerator first, and I have a greenhouse that I start my seeds in for optimal warmth and humidity. I am fully satisfied with 18 plants since comfrey is a notorious spreader. I started these seeds directly into 4” pots rather than seed flats since they quickly develop a long taproot.

Sprouting took a bit but beautiful plants. Thank you!

These seeds had very low direct sow germination rates. This is likely a human error. I strongly recommend creating starts in a controlled environment such as indoors under a grow light during late winter so as to be able to set them out in spring after last frost has passed. They are frost tolerant, however, and the occasional late frost, though it may lightly damage the leaves, it will not likely kill them or do any other kind of significant harm to a healthy plant. The few that did germinate were very slow to grow and took a year to establish, but once established by the second year, these things absolutely take off! My local bees have mostly ignored them, but other beneficial insects such as Assassin Bugs and carnivorous beetles do seem attracted to them, although, the blooms also seem to provide an early season nectar source to cucumber beetles, which, in my opinion, is possibly a good thing! That means that this could be a potential trap crop to lure and eliminate these pests before the growing season truly starts. It also appears two different varieties were mixed into this seed packet, which, at least in my case, I consider a great bonus! I had no idea Comfrey had more than one variety and the contrast in color is really quite nice to look at in the garden.

I followed directions. 1 seed germinated. Do not buy, its a waste. If they germinate in future, I will update.

These seeds grew.. so happy they did! But after I transplanted them my cats ate them!

I read all the negative reviews before I bought the seeds. But I thought for such a small price I would take a chance. I read instructions how to plant. Figured how so many followed instructions and failed to sprout any seeds, who needs instructions. I did not soak the seeds in water and put in fridge for 2 days. I just put potting soil with pearl lite in Red Plastic cups, put a hole in bottom for draniage. put 2 to 3 seeds per cup. Sat them outside here in florida in January. Watered the cups every other day or so. They got full sun when it was out. Just left them outside 24 hours a day. Day 10 I had a couple pop out of the soil. Day 11 many more. Nothing wrong with these seeds. Maybe soaking them destroyed them, who knows. But mine are growing like they should. Maybe they just like Florida and are glad to be out of California. lol up date. Day 16 over 30 seeds sprouted so far.

I tried only one round but was not able to get any to germinate. I did the cold, damp storage first and still nothing. So, I can’t give these a great rating but I am going to try again. Fingers crossed.