How to Grow Chives On A Windowsill From Seed (With Time lapse)
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- Опубликовано: 25 сен 2020
- In this video I describe in detail all the steps required to grow chives successfully from seed on a windowsill. Chives are a very easy herb to grow from seed, and unlike many other herbs can be cut back hard and will continue cropping for many years.
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Video starts at 5:05 - 6:00
Time lapse starts at 12:54
I've been growing chices in a pot for probably over 10 years now. I live in a cold winter climate, sometimes down to -40 degrees F. They've always been outside. They are the one plant I always know I can count on. I love their light purple flowers, and always let them bloom. Thank you for the video, as it's been that long since I planted them, and was wanting to start some new pots of them. Your video was just the refresher I needed.
They are such tough plants, yes I love the flowers they are always covered with bees in my garden, it seems to be one of their favourite flowers. I also find they are surprisingly drought tolerant as well as cold tolerant. Good luck with your new plants.
one of the most concisely comprehensive and informative videos i have EVER seen on ANY subject on this platform, especially considering the visuals change basically not at all for nearly the entire video. Thank you I am now sure I will have a successful season.
Thanks, I'm glad you found my video so informative, good luck with your Chive plants.
that time lapse at the end is amazing. Really makes me feel more confident about the garbage looking "chives" I have coming up after a couple weeks. Thanks for the video.
Thanks, I'm glad you liked my time lapse. Yes when chives first germinate they are very skinny little plants which often have yellowing leaves, but after a few weeks they will really take off and grow well with much bigger leaves. They can reach about a foot tall when mature.
The time lapse was great too! Very helpful for those of us who don’t really know what seedling shoots look like. Thanks!
Thanks, I'm glad you found my video and time lapse helpful.
I love how the first 4 minutes is just a lecture with the same bucket as back ground. Anyway, I finished the video and it’s really educational. Thanks
Edit: it was the entire video, more than 4 minutes.
no no it was the whole video, but very informative, still ... the bucket ... and more bucket. .. and also more bucket...
@@sharkwhisperer7326 you forgot bucket
😂
I love bucket
I have had the same chives plant in the same pot for 15 years neglected and still alive
I love the little purple Dr. Suess type flowers they get, too. I didn't know that they will live for so long and that they need a dormant time. I am going to try to grow some indoors. Thank you!
Yes, the flowers are lovely, I've seen them grown as a green roof before because they have such nice flowers. The longest I've had chives last is 10 years, but that's because I moved house and they were in left in the garden. I think if they are in the right climate outdoors they can last almost forever.
Those flowers will turn white when they die and once they do you can rub the dead flower and there will be more seeds to grow more chives!!
I love your Dr seuess description! My thought exactly! 🌼
Do you remember how many days the time lapse part was? From first sprouts to the end? They looked very nice and healthy.
POV: youre thinking what to do tomorrow and chose to plant a chives for your pasta
Apologies that this is 3 years later but I’m only seeing your video now. I have only just recently started growing my own herbs, maybe a bit late in the year but some of them will come indoors anyway. I’m on the Giant’s Causeway coast of Northern Ireland so, like you, we don’t really know what a hot summer is, especially this year!!(2024). I have to say, considering your entire ‘video’ features just a pot full of soil in the shot and your hand coming into view, only the odd time, you pack in a wealth of great information. You have clearly be doing this for quite some time, as your knowledge is impressive and very helpful. As a new subscriber I’ll be coming back for more. Thank you so much for a great deal of very useful information. The time-lapse at the end was interesting. Cheers.
Such a good and detailed video! Can’t wait to grow my own chives!
Thanks I'm glad you liked my video, good luck with your chive plants.
This is a very useful video. Thank you so much
Glad it was helpful!
Great video. 👍🏼 Thank you!
Excellent video. Comprehensive information, and timelapse! Thank you
Thanks, good luck with your chives.
This was the most informative video I’ve seen about any plant grown from seed to harvest. A bit of possibly annoying unsolicited advice, if you stand further away from your mic it won’t pick up the sound of breathing. It’ll sound cleaner and more true to life.
Thanks I'm glad you found my video so informative. Thanks, I've hopefully improved a little since this video, a lot of my older videos had breathing noises. I find it hard to get the balance between breathing noises and sounding echoey.
I think this talking pot should be famous
At least it was informative
Good tips, didn’t realize they need a dormant period. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful.
Thanks man. I need this video. My chives just never grow and still stuck in their seed.
Hopefully with the advice from my video your chives will germinate this time. Make sure you don't have old seeds as chive seeds don't store for very long.
Time lapse is so cool
thank you!
Lovely! They go well with an omelette!
Great video
Thank you!! Last year my chives never got thicker than at 13:06 , they just got stuck at the super thin stringy stage, and I still have no idea what I did wrong... Afraid to grow them and be disappointed again :( If anybody has any idea what could have gone wrong I would love to learn !
That bucket in the beginning of the video was so informative!! 😂
That bucket is my most talented presenter/host.
I'm in Toronto, Canada. When you said "let them get the frost and die back for a *couple* of months..."
It makes me wonder if I could put half my chives outside from November to January, and the other half out from January to March, and satisfy the dormant requirement while still having chives *in* my home almost 12 months a year...
(oh, and I finally bought a proper grow lamp)
Yes that should work, you may need to give them a few weeks to acclimatise to the cold as going from full growth to well below freezing in the same day could kill them. I see online that Toronto can go below -20C, at those temperatures they can be killed if in pots, even if they are acclimatised. Somewhere like a un-heated garage might be good or near the house so it doesn't get the coldest temperatures over winter. If you have a mild spell in January that would be a good time to put them out as it will give them a few days to acclimatise before the very cold water comes back. Also burying them under a foot of snow should keep them insulated enough to keep them above -20c.
Hi my chive seeds are half purple and black and after a few days of sowing the soil seems to smell slightly pungent, similar to onions, is this a sign of over watering and rotting?
Yes it sounds like it could be an over watering issue. Although I would expect a slight onion smell from chives as they germinate, but it shouldn't be pungent.
@@Gardeningat58N okokay, thank you for the advice!
Great video !
But I have a question, I'm growing my chives on a balcony in Paris, a balcony which gets some sunlight, but the angle and architecture is such that it doesn't get rain water. My question is, when they're dormant should I still water them? If not, when should I start watering them again? In the springtime? How can I know if they need to be watered when there's nothing to indicate if they're dormant or dead due to neglect?
Keep them watered at all times, just make sure they are not soaking wet when they are dormant. they don't have big bulbs like onions or garlic so the soil needs to be kept damp to keep their roots alive. When dormant they won't use much water so you will probably only need to water every few weeks or once a month as the compost will take a long time to dry out.
anyone know how often i should water? i heard him mention to water from bottom just not sure how often. Thank you!!
I've been doing every 2 days from seed, inside a pretty warm house. I think they're growing alright but also have no clue lol.... good luck.
It really depends on how warm it is and how much sunshine it gets, but try to keep it damp at all times, but allow any excess water to drain out the pot because you don't want the soil to be soggy, just damp.
if my plant goes dormant do i continue to water until spring?
Should you still be watering them when they go into that dormant winter phase? TY
Yes, but only a tiny amount. Once the leaves die back the compost will take a long time to dry out as the plant won't be using much water. But the compost should still be kept damp as chives unlike other alliums don't form true bulbs and so can easily dry out. Keep the soil damp, but never wet.
@@Gardeningat58N Thank you so much.... This is where I go wrong..
better leave a writing text somewhere instead of a useless video with a pot of... nothing!🌱
I used the cling film to get them to germinate. The seeds have sprouted now but I wasn't sure how long to keep the cling film on?
Take it off as soon as they have germinated.
Mine failed last year! I think I didn't put enough seeds. Excited to try again this year
If you have plenty of seeds sow lots of them as they will just come up like grass and don't seem to mind growing close together. Most pots of chives are actually about 50 small plants all growing in the same pot.
Don’t mind me, just marking the time lapse for later 12:55. Great tips by the way !
Thanks, enjoy the time lapse.
Hi, Can it be grown when the temperature is around 35 degrees Celsius, or does it like to wait until the temperature drops below thirty degrees?!
Ideally temperatures should be below 30c, growth is possible above these temperatures, but it will not be as healthy.
I’m confused on how your watering. You place the pot into a container filled with water, so that means the pot needs to have drainage or holes on the bottom? If that’s the case how do you keep the pot inside without it draining everywhere? Correct me where I’m wrong thanks
looks like he has a smaller pot with holes in it, inside of a larger pot without holes in it, that way the water can drain down without spilling onto the floor
Thankyou for the advise on putting it outside during winter. but then wont i get chives growing in winter indoors then? if i wanted to keep it indoors so i can still have chives in winter too? i live in England.
They will grow inside over winter, but it will weaken the plant, one option is to have two plants, keep one outside from November to January, then swap it with the one inside. They need a cold period once a year, but two or three months is long enough.
My chives are really wilted and thin and I'm not sure why. Any advice?
Not enough light, if indoors you will need artificial light, cool temps and a breeze so they don't go leggy, a fan or window sill por ejemplo.
I’ve had the same problem. Sometimes it’s natural when the temperature start dropping in winter. If it’s during growing season I suspect it’s because not enough water or feed.
Wish me luck lol
I thought I finally got the chive seeds to sprout, first time grower. It was like 11 days had passed and I seen something starting to come out of the soil and I praised myself thinking it was a chive sprout. 2 days later the leaves appeared and I looked it up online, it’s not chives. It’s parsley. I was transferring my little pots in a shoebox from one place to another and dropped the box, a lot of dirt was everywhere. I did my best and thought the chives were okay but I had to add some dirt back in. Obviously a couple parsley seeds were in there because now I have 2 going. I know they’re parsley because I have 2 pots of parsley sprouts growing. What a shame 🤦♂️
I've had some chives seeds on my kitchen windowsill for 4 weeks now and nothing has grown. I even had a look in the self watering pot, moved some soil and can't see nothing, no sprouts. I planted them about half a cm deep.
Edit: Just took a temp reading of my windowsill, it's 27 degrees.
Too cold. They germinate when temps are 65-75 degrees.
After 5 minutes I'm wondering why I am staring at a pot, it is a pot cast i guess??? I also thought this was a large 3 gallon pot because there is no frame of reference. You should show your face or images of chives as the visual is quite boring, sorry.
Have you done one on garlic?
No, I've not made a garlic video yet, although as its a good time of year for planting garlic now would probably be a good time. Garlic is usually grown from the cloves as the plant very rarely produces seeds and from seed the plant would take two years to form a bulb.
@@Gardeningat58N oh wow, I never knew! An old housemate once had an endless supply of onions and garlic coming from the greenhouse in winter so I imagined they're easy to grow but not had much luck myself this past year
This should be only 3 minutes long.
Did I miss something? I never saw any chives.
If you skip ahead to 12:54 you will see a time lapse of the seeds germinating and the chives growing.
Why do gardeners talk so much in their video I’m still waiting on the heading of their video
dirt talking video?
why you :
a) talking too too much
b) camera is far away