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Cilantro is an excellent herb to keep in your kitchen, because it has both medicinal and culinary uses. The pungent, lemon flavor of cilantro, or coriander, adds to the flavor recipes containing lentils, fish, and vegetables. Cilantro is frequently used to flavor Asian and Mexican dishes. Cilantro is also used medically by holistic healers such as in Ayurvedic medicine to reduce blood pressure. In this case, the seeds are used as medicine for high blood pressure, and to reduce intestinal gas. To reduce blood pressure, cilantro seeds must be taken in the correct amounts, and taken regularly. To avoid trying to find cilantro leaves and seeds in the store, raising it from seed at home is an option.

Cilantro grows well in a home garden if you have the proper growing conditions. Cilantro is greatly influenced by temperature changes such as heat, cold and drought, however. If you want strong cilantro plants with tasty leaves, you will need to be sure the growing temperature of the plant doesn't get too hot or cold. If the cilantro plant is grown in unfavorable conditions, it may go to seed early.

Some propagate cilantro for the seeds' medical and culinary uses. Cilantro plants need full sun to produce seeds. Full sun will be too hot for the cilantro plant, causing it to be stressed and produce flowers sooner than usual. Seeds will be produced more quickly if the cilantro plant is planted in hot, full sun.

Summer temperate zones are the perfect growing conditions for cilantro. Seeds can be harvested in temperate areas and used to plant cilantro the next year. In tropical zones, The optimum time to plant cilantro is in the winter. Self-seeding Cilantro grows very well in areas where winters are mild, so there is little need to save the seeds for replanting.

Cilantro grows best in rich, well-drained soil. The cilantro plant grows to a height of two feet. You can add fertilizer to average soil if it needs to be enriched for growing cilantro. Cilantro grows a deep taproot, so it should be sown at a depth of about one centimeter. It takes about 3 weeks for the cilantro plant to germinate, which is a longer germination time that most seeds need. Keep the soil moist, but don't keep the soil soggy. Add compost. Soon you will have cilantro that you have grown yourself.

When growing this herb for seed, place the seeds more than 5 centimeters apart, in rows. If you are propagating cilantro for the leaves, plant the seeds about 5 centimeters apart in rows. Planting cilantro in rows makes it easier to harvest. It takes about 40 days for the fully developed cilantro plant to grow in tropical climates. It can take several months for a fully developed cilantro plant to grow in a cooler environment, however.

Whether your cilantro is for seed indoors or outdoors, you will need excellent circulation and well-drained soil. When raising cilantro for seed to plant outside, you will need plenty of plants to produce a lot of seeds to get the amount you will need. When growing cilantro in containers indoors, you will need to line the base of the containers with stone or pottery shards. to insure proper drainage.

It is fairly simple to harvest cilantro seeds. Merely cut the stalks of the cilantro plant, bunch the plant together with a string or rubber band, and cover the flower heads of the cilantro plant with a paper bag. Next, hang the plant in a cool, dry place with the flower heads hanging down. The seeds will fall to the bottom of the bag when they have dried, and is best stored in airtight containers.

The culinary and medicinal properties of the cilantro plant and seeds make it worthwhile to grow yourself. And the cilantro plant is easy to raise if you know how.

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