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Asked by:
Joanne Bransford
Posted at:
January 26, 2025
I love your printed catalogue and your website. You have more herbs available than anyone else. Your catalogue is very educational.There is some confusion in the North American herb industry about cardamom. It appears that at least one non-flowering type has been sold for many years as potted herbs by many herb growers, particularly in the United States. Richters, too, sold this variety as cardamom until 1998. It turns out that there are several species that are used for the cardamom spice. The imposter appears to be a type of ginger which is very closely related to cardamom. Nobody bothered to check its identity, probably because it doesn't flower (flowers are needed for positive botanical identification), so it continues to be sold incorrectly labelled as cardamom.
Here in south Texas we don't see Herb Farms on the same scale as yours.
My question is how do you get Cardamon to bloom and then seed? My plant is getting huge and still in a pot. It is about three years old.