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12260151 No.12260151 [Reply] [Original]

As I was going around the supermarket I went looking for exotic spices and found saffron. Shit is expensive (live in los angeles) for a couple of strands. So I'm deciding to grow it instead. Anyone know of any good site for buying seeds? Thinking of getting lavender as well.

>> No.12260158

>>12260151
How many acres do you have?

>> No.12260181

>>12260151
Saffron is expensive because it's the stigma of a plant that only produces 1-2 flowers per season, and each flower only has three of them.
Just grow perennial spices like sage, rosemary, and thyme. They can even be pruned into fairly attractive bushes.

>> No.12260208

>>12260151
>growing saffron for your personal use
You'd need a pretty sizeable field.

>> No.12260234

>>12260151
Apparently saffron tastes like honey without the sweetness, so you could just use a bit of honey if it would fit in whatever you're trying to make.

>> No.12260235

>>12260234
this is the wrongest opinion i have ever heard
get yourself some real threads and come back famalam

>> No.12260272
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12260272

>>12260181
>Saffron is expensive because it's the stigma of a plant
>stigma

>> No.12260295

>>12260272
Odds are good Carolus Linnaeus, inventor of modern taxonomy, had something to do with that. Take it up with him.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus

>> No.12260296

>>12260208
>>12260181
>>12260158
Well, fuck.

>> No.12260315

>>12260295
pretty sure he called it stamen

>> No.12260327

What do they make fake saffron out of? Get some of that and use it to make fake saffron.

>> No.12260329

>>12260295
yeah except it's not called a stigma you nonce

>> No.12260357

>>12260329
you're the nonce, nonce

>> No.12260657

>>12260329
it is a stigma, stigma and stamen are completely different. brainlets here stick to cooking not plant anatomy pls. op grow truffles instead.

>> No.12261057

>>12260151
just find iranian diaspora and ask them to bring you back some next time they visit