Hemia has small seeds but germinates very well and is overall a hardy and adaptable plant.

Sowing Sinicuichi seeds

Use a very fine horticultural substrate (sifted through a sieve) without added fertilizers. Mix the substrate with fine sand or perlite in a ratio of 1 part sand to 2 parts fine substrate. After that
we steam the substrate in a pot or oven (important against pests such as ladybugs, the larvae of these flies will eat heimia seedlings without any problems).

Let the resulting substrate cool and fill a clean flowerpot with it. We first moisten (not soak) the substrate and press it so that its surface is as even as possible and the small seeds do not sink deeper into the soil.

Now sow the seeds at a distance of at least 1.5 cm from each other and wrap the top part of the flower pot with a translucent plastic bag, which we fasten with a rubber band so that no pests get into the flower pot.

We place the flower pot in a bright place with a temperature between 15-25 °C (watch out for the sun!). After ten days, most of the seeds should have germinated. It is also a good idea to check the seedlings for fungi that could grow under the plastic. If this happens, a good procedure is to treat the soil and plants with a weak solution of hydrogen peroxide (medical 3%).

Small heimia plants grow for a long time from the beginning and you need to be patient. However, it is already possible to make the first harvests after half a year, because after the initial slow start the heimias grow really fast.

Good luck!

The package contains 50 seeds in a plastic tube