Do "Regrowing Food Scraps" Hacks Actually Work?

Grab the Epic Sticker Pack: bit.ly/epicsticker Back again with another "garden hacks" video to react to! I wanted to share some additional context around these "tips and tricks" to help you think like a gardener, and realize that many times, the best hack is simply following best gardening practices.
Hacks should either same time, money, or both - and many of these don't, although some actually DO work.
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[@epicgardening]

If you regrow from food scraps, which work best for you?

[@praywithpio6028]

Bell pepper, romaine, tomato, pumpkin are all l've been able to grow from scrap (so far). I like your channel !

[@julierodgers9005]

Celery and leeks (in soil)

[@Ash-fd8ww]

Not even trying. The best tomatoes I've ever grown were accidentally included in reused potting soil or compost. Same goes for peppers, papayas, grape vines, and cow peas.

[@johnliberty3647]

I do what you suggested for green onions, Bought them at the store and planted them in the ground and kept harvesting greens.

[@christinacyrus3824]

While growing from scraps might be ok for some people, I live in an apartment with a plant stand and a small balcony so I have to grow particular varieties.

[@KarlaRei]

_"First of all that's a cucumber..."_ I laughed really hard right here. What amazing pepper seeds they must have to grow cucumbers!

[@tsrease81]

He is saying that the leaves that they “time lasped” were actually cucumber

[@mourningdove5661]

It was a cucumber im a farmer and that was a cucumber ive never seen a pepper look like that

[@SPIKE-ll6vt]

Yup thats not pepper, pepper sprouts have pointed leaves.

[@baronalexis3852]

@@tsrease81 Sarcasm

[@brittanybailey7768]

Did no one realize they never claimed to be growing a pepper actually, it said compostable seed starter. I hate this channel don't take me wrong, but I think this time y'all may have jumped to conclusions. If you notice hooky even still see the pepper when you see the sprouts, so idk.

[@nicsim7469]

"First of all thats a cucumber" Me: "rass this aint a good start"

[@athenamorales7321]

Good one

[@SusuReedJango]

Lost it right there, lmao

[@miklostamas4457]

Its a magic bell pepper

[@CH-jj8wk]

@sirmaj fisher to be fair, cucumber leaves are the thickest seed leaves I've ever seen, the only similar leaves I've seen are borage. So that's how he did it so quickly but it was still impressive ahahah

[@CarmineAbattoir]

I once bit into a tomato that had started germinating inside. The unexpected texture was absolutely horrifying. I almost cried in relief when i saw it was little seedlings and not the thousand baby spiders i had irrationally feared.

[@zeldapinwheel7043]

Yeah, that always freaks me out. I always slice my tomatoes, now b

[@lizzymandile2022]

Never biting into a tomato again

[@mischr13]

I don't even know the texture you're talking about but this almost made me throw up just from imagining it

[@spillednoodles9847]

whait why where you just bitin ginto a whole tomato

[@Masked_muscle_mommy]

@@spillednoodles9847 cus its good- idk maybe i just grew up in the country but i thought that was normal. its like biting an apple, portable sweet snack

[@Ichneumonxx]

The way I germinated my strawberry plant is that a sparrow shat in a pot on my balcony once and it grew on its own. How'd you like that for a plant hack!

[@barbaracoleman6641]

That happened with a sunflower seed in my parents back yard. Their grass needed cutting and their mower was broken so I decided to take my lawnmower over there and do it. Having never grown a sunflower from seed, I was frustrated that this large, thick, seemingly impervious stem was growing in the middle of the yard. The weed whacker couldn't chop it down, didn't even penetrate the outer covering. I had a good laugh a few days later when I came back to visit my parents and there was a 4 ft tall sunflower blooming merrily in the middle of an other wise plain lawn. I should have saved those seeds.😕 It seemed to be a very hardy plant. But the birds got to it first.

[@katiegraham6149]

Now if I could just get them to do it on command! 😂

[@Sparrow420]

How do you know it was me and not another bird? haha

[@PHOEBUSDANCER]

@@Sparrow420 🤣 your UN didn’t register to me and I was thoroughly confused

[@vincetravis8701]

Something similar happened to me with peanuts. There was a peanut field down the road and a squirrel buried some in my raised bed (that didn't have anything in it at the time) and forgot about them.

[@ImminentAl]

The avocado plant I’ve grown from seed has just become a depressing reminder of my my own mortality

[@epicgardening]

😂😭

[@123cutieputtie]

My grandmother actually grew one from seed. Its huge. Once its fully mature you'll have more avocados then you'll ever need. The avocados are delicious also

[@Jpiggye]

@@123cutieputtie That's cool it paid off for her. I read that the genetic diversity from seed is all over the place so you don't know how much flesh / how big your future avocados will be. It's definitely a gamble and long term investment. I've got a 7 month old indoor one rn that is doing pretty well.

[@sherreeroper1944]

So true, 7yrs to bear fruit? I'll start one and pass it down to my son when he gets his family's forever home.

[@rsdxxxx]

@@Jpiggye mine's a year now, still only about 1-2ft and with about 7 leaves sprouting from the top... 😅

[@GardenALittle]

Camomile tea does contain viable seeds. Found out by accident when I thought the tea was too old and threw it in my garden bed as some mulch and it grew a ton of camomile. 🌱

[@epicgardening]

Nice!!!

[@jaimezimmerman161]

Omgosh that's amazing!!!

[@HaydenonYT]

Thats some god like stuff there

[@cloudGremlin]

Chamomile is almost akin to weed types of hardy XD We have to be careful when growing it here in NB because it Will take over whatever garden bed it’s in

[@michaelsorensen7567]

Can* contain viable seeds. Doesn't necessarily every time.

[@Kimberly-gq3us]

Omg the burn with "first of all.. that's a cucumber" 😂

[@pris8595]

It's a cucumber plant grow up people

[@namebrandmason]

Fun fact: It takes DECADES for nut trees to start to fruit. That walnut will take 30 years to return on your investment. Also: Walnut trees drop stuff everywhere and are kind of a pain. Also: a whole walnut does not qualify as "food scraps."

[@maruubnd]

Indeed, we had two pecan trees in the house I grew up. it was so much hard work to pick them up and dry them, we rarely did it

[@thefallenyeeter]

thats a lot of alsos

[@greengeckygecko]

oh god walnuts just *everywhere* and the fact that small earworms can get into the fruit as a surprise just sucks-

[@tylerburney8576]

And eventually the squirrels wise up to the fact that you’ve got a nut tree, and suddenly you have nothing to eat

[@toxic1698]

@@tylerburney8576 That's not true, now you have squirrels.

[@GlamRoyal]

Just a thought. What if you made a demonstration video comprised of “Grow Hacks That Actually Work”? It would be cool to see the results.

[@ashtintodd5193]

Yes please make this!

[@0614Rei]

That will take a long time though

[@ivonahumpalot538]

Hell yea

[@terryfuldsgaming7995]

people have been growing crops for 2k years... I'm pretty sure its all been figured out by now.

[@terryfuldsgaming7995]

unless by "hacks" you jsut mean how to do it properly... Which isnt a hack... Most "hacks" are not hacks, other than they are made by a hack that wants your money. They are scams and clickbait.

[@Shuan1227]

I’ve grown roses from cutting 15 years ago and it’s still alive today. You have to put it in water until you get leaflets then plant it in soil. These roses are even more special because it’s the roses my then boyfriend (now husband) gave me for our first year together.

[@epicgardening]

That's so amazing

[@shahana_style]

Awwwwww this is so mushy gushy and sweet. I love it! 💜

[@katyachan3814]

Can you please explain how you do that?

[@RozariePlays]

That is beautiful

[@viceb7]

That's amazing! Rooting hormone? Dead head the roses? I've never got it to work

[@franniepan]

I did "fall" for the tomato plant hack and now I have 4 pretty large tomato plants in my garden that I never really anticipated to care for lol

[@alyssa_the_noodle5228]

I’m starting my own cherry tree. It’s two feet tall now. It’s taking forever but it’s growing well. Wish me luck on my very long journey lol

[@yasinhenfs4540]

i feel that, im kinda obsessed with growing kiwis since a few years but luckyly they seem to grow a little bit faster

[@pridepotato2810]

How tall is it now

[@alyssa_the_noodle5228]

@@pridepotato2810 about half an inch taller lol it bushed out tho

[@alfrancis8]

@@yasinhenfs4540 omg kiwis? i never considered that, i must research that :)

[@yasinhenfs4540]

@@alfrancis8 now 4 months later i can tell they grow very well and climbed up to 3 meters in 2 growing seasons while surviving -10°C ^^

[@LeelaLu7]

Fourteen years ago I started several Asian pear trees using seeds from a store-bought fruit. One of those trees is now over 20 feet tall and produces hundreds of pounds of fruit every summer. Never say never!

[@knottyrootsbylindsey]

That's so awesome to know about, I love Asian Pears and they are so expensive here so I buy one or two every so often. I'm gonna totally start one from the next time I buy! Thanks for this knowledge!

[@crazy4beatles]

wow! that's so cool

[@dannyboii9117]

@@knottyrootsbylindsey That or see if you can't find one either online or at a nursery. I myself am not that patient xD❤. Did start some lemon seeds for fun though.

[@nikkimd2984]

Me too! Then I realize we dont have the land for it! Now they’re cute bonsai vertical garden plants instead. :)

[@elektra121]

My grandmother planted a very young walnut tree and it became an impressible large tree in about 10 to 15 years and bore fruits even earlier. So, seems to very much depend on the species. And why not try? "If I knew the world would end tomorrow, I'd plant an apple tree today."

[@LanaUnderPressure]

That's a cucumber growing out of the pepper, lol. I'm dying. Wait until I tell my friends.

[@epicgardening]

LOL

[@SomewhatLazy]

You really should edit the video to highlight this to show how fake these really are.

[@Tri7on]

@@SomewhatLazy haha he seems like a pretty wholesome guy, and probably seen this aswel, but didnt feel like calling it out exactly. Its about making his communiy bettwr at gardening not calling out hacks. (Just letting his own community these arent real hacks)

[@rickykimble1246]

I tried to propagate a snake plant cutting and now I have a squash or cucumber plant growing out of it that was a few months ago it's in the ground now with flowers 😂

[@axlent123]

So.... if I slice a cucumber and plant it, will I get a bell pepper?

[@KageNoKarasu]

I have grown tomatoes from store bought romas for years, and they are an over producing monster, and I love them. Also a fun hybrid.

[@terryfuldsgaming7995]

most of these are just "rather than buying a 69 cent pack of seeds, throw a hundred dollars of food away!"

[@caithlyn1510]

nice

[@martinhriibek3443]

That was my first thought, when I saw the pepper. The bag of seeds is usually cheaper, than half of pepper.

[@sinine1100]

​@@martinhriibek3443 Don't you remove the seeds from the pepper for many foods, anyway? You can eat you pepper and have the seeds, too!

[@martinhriibek3443]

@@sinine1100 Possibly? I dunno to be honest. Many of the fruits and vegetables you buy is not fully ripe, so dunno if the seeds would work. But yeah, still better than burying half the pepper :-D

[@justjess6636]

@@sinine1100 If they're hot peppers, people usually just throw the whole thing in. For me, I definitely take bell pepper seeds out.

[@DollyDarkside]

I regrow my carrot tops for my guinea pigs. I find it fun to watch them grow, and the guinea pigs get to enjoy them :)

[@epicgardening]

So cute

[@LillibitOfHere]

My budgies love them too! The squawk at me whenever I bring in greens from the back yard.

[@DollyDarkside]

@@LillibitOfHere I love the squeaks! Im buying a house in the next 6 months so ill have the space to have a large garden. I cannot wait! Then my guinea pigs will have unlimited veggies freshly picked. (Not that they dont already, but the fruits and veggies are from the store)

[@denisepinkston7160]

I think carrot tops are pretty and I like them in salads. My 🐔 like them, too.

[@dawnesmith-sliming7004]

Dolly's Discussions Wish I had known that when we had guinea pigs. Would have saved us some real money!

[@Kesangarangaree]

I’ve grown chamomile from tea bags! Just the cheap teabags from Aldi, they weren’t whole flower heads but it still worked :)

[@nevertime1246]

that's great!!!

[@Daliena]

Did you brew tea first or just took seeds from dry tea bag? My concern with applying boiling water - it will kill the seeds in the process. However dry tea bag just acts as a seed packet.

[@wildfyah]

Really?

[@Ketutar]

@@Daliena You do not brew tea and then expect to have anything but mold grow from the seeds.

[@roblesink6119]

Thanks for letting us know :) I bought what was supposed to be chamomile and turned out to be another plant. Now imma buy tea bags instead

[@2fortsmostwanted]

I love that Blossom put a skewer through a corncob and put it in a planter and thought they'd finally hacked the practice of corn agriculture we've mastered for centuries.

[@pankobro4536]

I love the name Dosnel

[@pankobro4536]

Donsel, Dosnel is pretty nice as well

[@laneyb8911]

I love that you mentioned carrot top pesto! I grew carrots in our backyard, and while I did not till the soil enough so the roots did not grow long, the tops grew huge and I made so much delicious pesto from it! I also threw it in some soups and used it in some salads. I couldnt show off the carrot part but I was so proud I could eat something I grew for the first time lol

[@_BlueMoon]

Don't you get flowers with seeds from the tops and use the seeds to plant?

[@nikmassa]

Tilling might have been the problem but there is also a chance of too much nitrogen in the soil to cause more foliage then root.

[@dawnboren594]

Omg, try radish tops in s salad. They have a slightly peppery taste. Love them.

[@seanpaints]

Actual plant hack: buy those “living herbs” from the grocery store and plant them back in the ground lol.

[@Cal-cf2vo]

I do that, too

[@mrbrightsightfreak]

problem is, those normally don't do as well as ones you have grown from seed. with like tomatoe plants etc it's different but those herbs never seem to make it for a long period of time :(

[@vi4269]

Wait.. those aren't for that reason? I've always done that!

[@TheMCGmandy]

@@mrbrightsightfreak I replanted a living herb Basil plant from March, and I have repotted a couple times....it is now spread through my garden in every tomato pot. Cannot prune it enough, but properly pruned it is brushing out

[@wyattspop]

Guys, those grocery store Basil for example are $4, most nurseries charge about $2.25-$2.75 for a 4" herb and they are much heartier than the ones that sat in storage, then on a grocery floor display

[@ivacheung792]

WHY WOULD YOU WASTE A PERFECTLY GOOD PEPPER AND NOT EAT IT???

[@sunset6010]

Just take out the seeds - and eat the REST ! I think that regrow video was partly for entertainment

[@Erika70079]

I agree. And where I live it's cheaper to buy a pack of pepper seeds than a single pepper.

[@doloresreynolds8145]

Erika70079 About the same cost here, but with the red pepper you can use the pepper and get a few dozen seeds, too.

[@patdthomas]

Wait until you see the one where they grow corn plants from a can of Niblets.

[@nizaragogoi1529]

This actually works, i tried, the nutrients from the ripe bell pepper helps it grow faster, once the saplings come out, you need to plant them in a different pot. I tried planting the seeds separately and also tried directly planting the bell pepper hack, the plants from the direct seeds are just 3 inches long while the bell pepper hack ones are 2 feet long and already bearing multiple fruits. Try it if you don't believe it, i experimented and i have actual results.

[@misspoopsy6336]

My mom only grows flowers and throws out my drying seeds, so I have to start gardening in secrecy! Once they're plants, she can't stop me lol!

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

oof, y she keep yeetin' them? Got some good news for ya, tho. If there's trees in your backyard, you can weave your own pots for free, dig up some backyard soil, and grow the plants without costing a single extra penny. Be sure to let mama know that if she takes 'em away, you'll just make more (and the more she takes 'em away, the better you'll get at remaking 'em). Since it costs nothin', there's nothin' to stop you from doing it shy of her locking you indoors forever- at which point, I'm sure a local government entity would take interest.

[@Reenomeano]

I managed to grow a mango seed. So happy 😊 probably won't grow mangos but I have a new plant 🌿 😂

[@let_uslunch8884]

I love how he's taking time and answering the hacks one by one thoughtfully, seriously, like the videos are not bs.

[@kodiejc4202]

you should watch ann reardon on how to cook that, she does debunking videos for these mass consumption "hack" videos.

[@let_uslunch8884]

I actually have seen a couple of her videos where she's concerned about the safety of some of these "hacks".

[@RedRaven64]

I remember when I was younger, I planted 3 pumpkin seeds, I watered them every day, they were very healthy, actually got quite large... My parents had workers come and they trampled my pumpkin plants I was sad

[@liquidsleepgames3661]

Those workers are dickz

[@samanthamayhugh9354]

@@liquidsleepgames3661 right

[@arirose5887]

Pumpkins and sunflowers are the two things I've grown that it felt impossible to kill. Our pumpkin plant took over to the point we wanted to rip the whole thing out and tried but it just came back. Tenacious things, usually

[@apollomommy7364]

My dad weed whacked my tiny garden on accident, destroyed my pepper plant 😅 so I feel your pain

[@AlanaeImontae]

I remember my kingergarden teacher gave us little pumpkins for halloween. I ate mine then planted the seeds. Once the actual pumkins started growing(plant starts turning upside down) I threw it away bc I thought it was dying :). I'm still upset about it til this day🤣🤣🤣

[@spacecaptain9188]

Wow. It's so refreshing to hear someone be honest when they don't know something. Thanks for keeping it real!

[@Cola82]

Here’s a little anecdote about this: my first year as a gardener, I cut open a store bought butternut squash to find that most of the seeds inside had germinated. I planted them in my garden and they flourished. But they were all different. Some were bush types and some were vines, and the fruit was different, too. That’s when I learned that grocery store produce is mostly the result of hybrids that will not breed true when you plant their seeds. This is done mostly to produce plants that yield hardy fruit that will survive shipping and storage and look appealing in the store. So after that I was a lot more selective. I find more unusual produce tends to breed true. Because of its niche appeal, there isn’t any reason to bother with creating the perfect hybrid (which has to be produced every season from the varieties it’s crossed from). It’s always worth experimenting, though. I’ve saved pepper seeds I found on the kitchen floor without knowing what they came from.

[@a.deadgirl]

Yeah a lot of them are from clones. I know from my mom's friends (older people) after some time and generations of the plants, they get better.

[@a.deadgirl]

@Gharch Pariii here in Florida they have some farms. Where do you live?

[@a.deadgirl]

@Gharch Pariii aww shucks! (Miami here) there are some nurseries here that I think ship them. Try aguacates sanctuary hmm the other names I forget. One is in saint pete and another in fort Myers. I can look it up if you like. There are some in Cali too. I guess it depends on the exact stuff you're looking for and if they still have some. They inspect the roots and leaves to make sure there aren't any bugs. Which idk if ALL do that, most do. Lmk

[@athousandlives7231]

Yeah also if squash/pumpkin seeds cross-pollinate with zucchini, they can make seeds, which if panted and the fruit harvested is actually no longer edible. The fruit will taste bitter and can even make you unwell.

[@mistressofmadness]

@@athousandlives7231 Learn something new everyday. That's pretty neat and useful information.

[@danielwalker2381]

“Well, they just showed a complete tomato.” He’s not even surprised at this point 😂😂

[@nardalis4832]

Yea, could've been whatever tomato at all when they show it like that lol

[@mizuki3183]

My bf is growing an avocado from seed and we named it Timmy, we get hyped everytime Timmy grows new leaves 😊

[@kellyjames5125]

"You can do that. You can't do that." I had to pause I was laughing too hard. I'm the idiot who tried these things and when they inevitably failed I felt bad for myself. Thank you for restoring my self esteem. 🤣

[@hauntedshadowslegacy2826]

Glad you've since learned. Sadly, there's a lot of people (particularly kids) stumbling across these content farm channels like Blossom and falling into the same pitfalls. The worst part is that some of the 'hacks' shown on content farms are legitimately dangerous. There's one I saw where they suggested making a wall charger for your phone by *casting the entire thing out of metal.* Can anyone say 'electrocution'? Certainly not the poor sap who tries it in an old house, that's for sure. By the way, if you ever come across a video from a content farm that promotes something legitimately dangerous (like the solid metal wall charger block or the 'drip hot liquid candy onto a spinning drill bit' ones), be sure to report them. videos promoting dangerous acts go against KZbin's ToS.

[@AndYourLittleDog]

It’s adorable how you never miss a chance to talk about your dragonfruit and narrowly escape bursting with pride over it 💕

[@loveramos98]

I actually did the bell pepper one because I saw that video and now I have 93 saplings that are 3”-5”

[@jonpagel8373]

I’m 10 and 5 years ago I found a video on KZbin that showed how to grow an avocado tree. I followed the instructions and it worked. Now I have a 6 and a half foot tree, and I don’t care if it doesn’t produce fruit, it is still a beautiful tree

[@mischr13]

that didn't happen, but ok.

[@pris8595]

It does happen

[@simpinainteasyRHEC]

Thats awesome!!! @Jon Pagel nice job!! ✊🤘

[@AlanaeImontae]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽go you!!😎

[@seecanon5840]

Warning for strawberries: if planted in a garden they will run free and spread all over.

[@caleighcaleigh2986]

I bought 5 strawberry plants just as a spur of the moment thing, and did little to no research on them. I heard they would only grow about 6 inches. Within 2 weeks it grew several vines, around 12 inches in length. I learned the hard way.

[@mattleandiaz611]

My plant died then grew again

[@camso6]

maybe use a trellis.

[@penelopegrier5073]

I've never been able to grow strawberries. They die before they even get started.

[@spillednoodles9847]

i kinda want to get an empty yard and plant strawberry, raspberry and mint and let them fight for the space

[@naomimay82]

Yes, it totally works! Instead of throwing my food scraps in the compost, for a short while I dug holes in the garden and buried the food scraps. As a result, I have potatoes growing in my garden where I didn’t plant potatoes! Also, we threw some spoiled tomatoes out on the ground last fall. This year I have wild tomatoes growing everywhere! I didn’t yank them out because I have three rows in my garden that the rabbits ate; the pepper plants and green bean plants. So I allowed my wild tomatoes to just grow wild. I used heirloom seeds, so they will produce tomatoes. They are already loaded with blossoms and green tomatoes.

[@epicgardening]

Potatoes are a great one to do!

[@jayamilapersson4030]

Potatoes is easy to grow from potatoes but they arent actual seeds the potatoes will grow a plant of the same type but actual potato seeds would grow a new variety of potato if you have seen a tomato like fruit on your potato plant you can get seeds from those.

[@uzzadazza]

Naomi May - Sustainable Prepper awesome! I love feral plants

[@naomimay82]

Jayamila Persson I have tomatoes growing wild from rotten tomatoes we threw out in the yard AND potatoes from potato peels that I buried. I have both vegetables growing wild.

[@naomimay82]

Ursula Davis Me too! I have just allowed the potatoes and tomatoes to grow where they sprouted. It defies my straight rows in my garden, but oh well. I don’t care.

[@I_know_it_I_sew_it_I_grow_it]

Chamomile is absolutely possible to grow from a tea bag! It 's simply the flowers which contain the seeds. Simply, cut open a fresh , unused, tea bag.

[@mookinbabysealfurmittens]

☝Unused, ah, is key. (I doubt the seeds could survive being boiled, or nearly so.) Also, be aware that a lot of tea (especially generic tea) is a lot of "misc", filler. But it's just a tea-bag; worth checking if you want! ^_^

[@jgurka2105]

"The mind of a gardener" - exactly. Thanks for letting us watch you think, laugh a bit, and learn a lot.

[@livallison77]

"actually a cucumber" LOVE this! I did the pepper hack, as they call it. Accidentally at first, with a pepper plant that over wintered, I just buried the whole plant into the garden about a month before planting for spring. Little organic matter. In a few days It looked like a little pepper sprout forrest, very similar to a small patch of micro greens. Then just to see if it would work inside a pepper like you showed. Very similar end result, although I would not garden this way, It makes a really cool experiment to introduce kiddos into the would of gardening or just to watch something transform. With the help of an adult you could try and transplant a few and see if they would take. This makes a pretty impressive impact to little kids especially.

[@RuRaynor]

After none of my seed packets of peppers worked (old seeds), I scraped seeds out of a bell pepper and meticulously laid them out in a seed tray in a 8 × 11 configuration. Ended up with 59 pepper plants! I've been giving them away like crazy.

[@ilenastarbreeze4978]

for me, i like the idea of saving seeds for use year after year and its just something to add to the joy of gardening

[@POAGeckos]

I just wanted to make a quick correction! Flower propagation is often achieved through using flowerless stem cuttings and placing them in nutrient rich soil. Carnation cuttings need to have their bottom leaves, flowers and buds removed(to focus on root development instead of blooming), maybe use a root stimulator, and then plant them in a compost rich soil under a cloche or in a green house, it works and is a very easy and successful way to propagate flower babies! 😁👍

[@ibonnie1047]

"That's just like a bean sprout, I'm pretty sure" LMAOOO

[@k9spot1]

The only “regrow” hack that’s worked for me was the onion regrow hack (I think it was featured on this channel) specifically the one where you take a sprouting onion, peel off the outside, split up the inner core plants and replant them. I got three full sized onions from one rotten one that way!

[@epicgardening]

NICE!

[@polaroidsofpolarbears365]

Pineapples work well too, you just have to know how to take care of pineapple plants haha.

[@jayamilapersson4030]

Thats how i use to replant onions I thought I was the only one who did that.

[@sofakingwetodddid1685]

Cool

[@SharonLee41128]

I’ve done onions, garlic, celery, carrots, leeks, and lettuce

[@OnLongIsland]

Because of the covid thing and shortage of foods, I did plant seeds from organic cherry tomatoes and got tons of seedlings that I planted and gave away to family and neighbors. Mine are doing awesome and getting ready to ripen. :) I have about 10 from my BJ's store tomato.

[@epicgardening]

Nicely done!

[@OnLongIsland]

@Amy Sternheim I'm new to this so I have no idea. I do know they were "organic" and they are cluster chain fruiting cherry toms. :) I also was able to buy plant starts at nurseries when we were able and all are doing great. I do believe they are indeterminate since I see most commercial tomato growers I've seen have huge tall plants. As long as they taste good, I'm getting a huge amount of tomatoes from just one small cherry tomato.

[@OnLongIsland]

I looked up some info on the growers website and found out they are definitely not GMO tomatoes and this is what the commercial grower said; "The seeds we grow from are first-generation (F1) varieties. This means that seeds dried and grown from our products will be second-generation (F2) seeds. Fruit from F2 plants will not necessarily look the same and will definitely not have consistent flavor." That said, I still got lots of tomato plants that are fruiting well and that's what I needed at the time everything happened with the food chain. With State politicians like a certain one from MI, saying seeds were "not essential" (Really?)...I decided to give it a try and hope for the best in case things got bad. It worked! Yay! I got edible tomatoes! :) Happy Gardening! :)

[@aanawenjigewin]

Last year I planted some seeds that sprouted from an organic tomato and it worked pretty well! Only problem was I didn’t plant them in a good spot so I only grew a few small green tomatoes.

[@mantis_toboggan_md]

I'm 99% sure that Walnut would have been previously roasted, totally unviable.

[@abydosianchulac2]

And even if it were raw, it one of those seeds that would need stratification (cold storage to mimic the winter, or overwintering outside) before it would germinate.

[@banana7558]

The pili nut my dad planted took 8 years to grow into a tree. He planted it when I was five and now we have unlimited pili nuts. He also planted almonds 3 years ago in hopes of also growing into a tree. (It's doing pretty good)

[@sarahtorres4490]

Because of Covid and not wanting to go out to a plant nursery to buy seed packets, I'd like to know how to grow plants from grocery store produce (which is delivered). Perhaps you could put out your own accurate video for this! I would love it.

[@kmw4359]

You can still order seeds from the nurseries. Plants too.

[@heathertrice2636]

I ordered my seeds and seedlings from Market Wagon which is a to your door market for local farms and growers. I also ordered other seeds direct from Burpee.

[@sarahtorres4490]

@@kmw4359 Good point. I've never done that before so I'm not sure who to order from.

[@sarahtorres4490]

@@heathertrice2636 Oh that sounds promising! I will look into both of those, thank you.

[@wyattspop]

@@kmw4359 Actually most nurseries are picked through by May and growers are already using their space to produce Poinsettias. Except for Lows and Home Depot, you'd be lucky to find so much as a rosemary plant, maybe a rootbound tomato plant at even large nurseries in July

[@TheJazzimum]

I bought some chamomile tea with flower heads from the health food store, so I'll take some heads and plant them and see what happens and will let you know! Thanks for the tip on the leek. I'll get mine in soil today!

[@lukeb2351]

Keep us updated! I want to try if it works!

[@leastitdidforme]

Yes! Let us know!

[@knottyrootsbylindsey]

Yes! Totally want to know the results. Or hell I have some I should probably just try it myself lol. But still let us know!

[@elektra121]

This one could totally work. Since tea is meant to be drunk, the drugs shouldn't be treated with anything chemical, just dried at low temperatures, because heat will destroy some of their pharmaceutical ingredients. So, they should be able to germinate.

[@jayamilapersson4030]

The problem with leeks grown like this is it wont take that long until it blossoms of course you can let it go to seed and gather those to replant for more leeks but most if not all onions have a 2year cycle they usually grow a bulb or roots and leaves the first year and Bloom the next the store bought leek has been growing one time putting it in soil now Will automatically start its second year phase.

[@jocelynjones2245]

I’m not a great gardener but my teenagers and I love growing fruits, veggies, and flowers. We have pumpkins and Amaranth blooming, and we just dried lemon and papaya seeds to plant. We also started a pineapple bush, sweet pea flowers, wild flowers, and more. You’re in a different zone than us but I appreciate all your advice!

[@briellejones9550]

You had me at “First of all that’s a cucumber.” Lol. Blossom is making fools out of people.

[@bersef]

I got some worm casting from a friend and ended up with multiple tomato varieties and strawberries just popping up on their own. It was awesome.

[@normaltoast-yq5vv]

Same, I put some of my compost in soil and some tomatoes started sprouting

[@chrisbrownlov1]

I recognized those cucumber leaves cus I just cleaned some seeds!! Lol I feel so smart

[@kristis4147]

“ I’ve got some seasons under my belt”. Humble man. He’s an amazing gardener!!

[@thesmallestbarnacle2505]

My parents compost bins constantly have volunteers. Last year they had volunteer cantaloupes on one, tomatoes on another, squash on another, and moon and stars watermelon in another. They change every year, it's become an exciting thing to look forward to! LOL!

[@TGO92507]

I tried many, most will regrow, but while one part of the plant is putting on new life the other part is rotting and draws bugs... didn’t dig it so now I plant seeds 🌱

[@gardensbyjudylevy8031]

I have done the strawberries, the tomatoes and the green onions and they work and are cost saving. I had strawberries the next year after planting seeds from my strawberry the summer before🌾🌾

[@CorpseBride64]

I do the tea bag thing every Spring, as a fun experiment. This year I got one gorgeous Sunflower from a Camomile tea bag, yup it's true. As I said she was beautiful and I harvested her seeds for next Spring. I think every parent should do this with their child, it's always a surprise to see what you will get!!

[@belle6618]

Just found your channel, have been gardening with my folks since I was a kid! These hack videos frustrate me, so I appreciate you analyzing them to shed light to people that are starting out. And i agree, tomatoe seeds sprouting inside a tomato is super bizarre looking haha!

[@ThirdCoastGardening]

I’ve regrown food scraps from grocery stores. Like green onions, bok choy and lettuce.

[@DeeDiamond2981]

Chive, celery,

[@pixychx2418]

Only problem is they come out smaller. They also do have a different flavor than the mother plant, but it's not bad. I also like garlic greens. I'll take the little hard to chop cloves of garlic and put them in soil and use the green sprouts in cooking too.

[@kimers12660]

Did you use organic produce non-gmo?

[@belindadomingo]

I tried celery and planted the base in soil and it’s growing well. It’s growing a little faster than my seedlings so far

[@applepie4462]

I am a big fan of yours ! I'm a 70 year old grandma that needs good advice to start gardening again. I've seen these Blossoms on Pinterest and I was very skeptical of these hacks. Thanks for the straight skinny on how to really grow veggies.

[@vharr3257]

Best thing with you is that you give such valuable information to me as a person who loves gardening and nature and wants to learn more.

[@artotay7063]

Man these videos are so entertaining. I legitimately laughed out loud when you interrupted yourself to point out the "pepper" seeds were growing cucumber plants lmao

[@epicgardening]

Hahaha

[@katieddg5877]

I regrow my green onions in water then transfer to soil when there’s a little more of a root. I tried carrot tops, it worked but before the carrot tops got too big the carrot started to rot away so they got tossed. I love these videos that you do! It’s so easy to fall for all these “hacks” when you don’t know any better !

[@acciaiomorti]

growing strawberries from seeds was rough, used to try to grow them with my mom when i was really little, didn't work the first couple attempts when finally they sprouted the strawberries that grew were small and really sweet with very hard seeds, perfect for a little kid, even better for for spiders I mostly enjoyed the plant because I liked spiders

[@violet5610]

I'm grateful I found your channel. I'm a new gardener and I would try those hacks and feel like I wasn't good. Now I've learned how to do things properly. Thank you

[@owenl3929]

I haven’t had the chance to find a vendor for a dragonfruit cutting, but I’m growing two from seed right now and one has grown almost an inch in the past week! (It’s only two inches tall right now so that’s still quite a bit of growth)

[@a.deadgirl]

I have some too. I need to repot them desperately. I have no clue 😩😂

[@a.deadgirl]

The ones I have are 5 years old

[@flameingirl]

This is super late, but it can actually be very easy to find dragonfruit cuttings! They just won't be labeled as dragonfruit. If you go to a big box store like Home Depot, Walmart, or Lowe's, you often find little cacti/succulent plants that have a 2-3 inch long vertical stem with a weird yellow or red spiky ball thing on top. That ball part is actually grafted onto a dragonfruit cutting! If you cut off the ball portion, the dragonfruit cutting will actually continue to grow. Best part is, these succulents are usually about $4-5, much cheaper than you'll find a dragonfruit cutting for.

[@alfrancis8]

I am one of those quarantine gardeners that have popped up over the year..... and have and am trying all those hacks and avo growing. I dont put so much hope it in, just a way to spend time, no matter how long they survive. What i have got out of it is a few minutes away from worrying and stress of the 2020-21 global crisis, and thats invaluable. It is so calming just to wake up and be excited to see if any growth happened, any roots, repot etc.

[@amaichandes]

This helped me as a beginner so much! The video you reviewed was actually my favorite hack video that I vowed to try every "hack from" but now i see many of the ones i really liked are bogus. Thank you.

[@katieclemm6875]

I have planted onions, celery, and lettuce from scraps so far. I am not good at gardening but I sure can grow an onion still in the bag on my counter lol

[@LeelaLu7]

I'm interested in any quick and dirty tricks to produce good, usable seeds. I think the seed supply may be in some danger right now, and I'd like to have plenty of everything to share with anyone who needs them. Thanks for all your great tips!

[@Reyairia]

Seconded on this!

[@denisepinkston7160]

Last year I saved seed from bell peppers, squash, okra, and herbs. Wash squash seed, lay on a paper towel to dry. Once dry store in an envelope. Label the envelope with seed variety. Bell pepper and okra you can skip washing then do the same. Okra can be allowed to dry in the pod then break pod when ready to plant. Herbs and lettuce make seed. Allow seed to mature on the plant then save. I have grown basil, dill, and cilantro from seed I saved. I am saving romaine seed from lettuce I grew from a core. I have enough seed from it to last a year with fall and spring planting. Peas and beans can be allowed to dry in the pod. I planted purple hull peas from 2 years ago and they are looking great. I experiment a lot.

[@LynnAgain83]

@@denisepinkston7160 make sure you put them in a cool dry place like a basement/cellar, etc.

[@RummerChan]

"First of all, that's a cucumber... that's a cucumber coming out" 🤣 I think that got me way harder than it should have.

[@debrahouston2884]

So glad I found u + watched this video BEFORE planting my scraps! You have saved me much time, effort and frustration! 💞🥕🍅🥒💞

[@o0Avalon0o]

I love how masterfully you edit. It's so helpful to see what you're talking about.

[@BF-Gator]

If you plant a leek directly from the store without cutting it, it grows into this huge crazy super mario 2 esque climbable vine

[@bridgettewade4167]

Thanks for the shoe organizer hanging garden tip at the end! That's a really neat idea for an apartment herb garden

[@bitchybathandbody4145]

Thank you sooooo much for this video. I started gardening during the pandemic and got a lot of shady details from channels that were probably not experienced. Thus far I’ve spent hundreds of dollars and grown nothing. I’m starting over using your channel, Farmers Almanac, and other resources.

[@rancisgamer]

I regrow lettuce to collect seeds for the next season

[@tauceti8341]

I purposly bolt mine a season before so that it can seed. The bees really like vegetable flowers. I've seen at least 6 different types so far!

[@DiscoChixify]

I do this too! The first time I did it was with a cutting from a romaine lettuce from a discount grocery store. I harvested the seeds (& leaves while it was growing out) and replanted them in a large pot in the fall. That tub exploded with romaine lettuce and we started giving them away. I repeated the process and there were twice as many the following spring.

[@teachernxtdoor]

I've just started regrowing lettuce. Where will I find the seeds?

[@doloresreynolds8145]

R Y After it flowers, the seeds develop within the dying flower heads.

[@DiscoChixify]

R Y they’re similar to like Milkweed, so the seeds come out in tufts after it flowers. Try to harvest them quickly bc they will blow away on the breeze. But once you have all those seeds you can either grow them regularly or you can grow them like micro greens by over seeding.

[@WilliamChan]

I was trying to regrow Bok Choy, but because we've had a heat wave, it's bolted big time. Hope I can get the seeds in time for fall planting!

[@ryanflores2489]

Oh no! That's like my favorite crop to grow. I actually grow it on my balcony. But lately we have had so much rain and now it looks a little worrisome. Hope u can get more! Those are the best.

[@Emeraldwitch30]

I hope it made a lot of seed for you. Ice been growing tatsoi and I really like it as much as bokchoi. Very cold hardy. Some of the last things in the garden.

[@neodora]

I decided to try to grow a lemon tree from a seed, it's been over a year and it's a little over 50 cm tall, if I could go back I'd rather just buy a small lemon tree or a cutting, but I'm definitely proud if it so far lol

[@creativityunknown5241]

You are right it took so many years but it looks good to see them grow 😊

[@shanteltice1541]

Thank you sooooo much!! I've watched these same videos and you said the same things I was yelling to them. Thank you for sharing this video

[@waoe.]

Good thing we have a smart person like you

[@summerwillows4655]

Can't say for sure about chamomile tea bags from the store, but I grow the herb. The tea is mare from the dried flower heads. So I'd guess you be able to replant them easily enough

[@preethyvibin]

When I was young, I would just love growing plants. Whenever I go to a hotel or an award ceremony, I take those cut roses and flowers and plant them in the soil. And after a few weeks it withers. I just love those memories

[@Kayari]

I've gotten a bell pepper plant and a yellow cherry tomato that I've currently got growing that I saved seeds from fruit I got from the grocery store but that's the closest thing to any of these 'hacks' that I've done lol

[@Snagafraz]

I loved this video! I hope you continue to do more like it! Thank you!

[@misschloes-w]

please do more of these! we want to regrow food from food but dont know where to start - other than green onions hahaha

[@verkar4416]

Very Impressed with this video he was very humble about his doubts.

[@marieheffern1575]

omg. I love this video. Some of these videos are more like Ripley's believe it or not! Thank you for going through it.

[@ManicPandaz]

Apple hack: Take apple Drop on ground Thrown soil over Water Wait 10 years Now you have apples!

[@prudence8808]

Knowing these videos theyd probably somehow produce whole ass iphones

[@skwerl81]

Omg this actually made me laugh out loud, thank you for that! 😂

[@alexandraprytkova387]

Yeah, it won't work. Apples usually need to be grafted. You will probably get a wild apple from the seeds...(I know you were joking, just pointing out that even if they showed that hack, it would still be wrong, lol)

[@nafismubashir2479]

im surprised you have not been hearted

[@Qwex1992]

Our neighbour had a lot of fallen apples last year. She put them into the garden bed (hoping they would turn into fertilizer). This year she had dozens of tiny apple sprouts there instead.

[@AzraelAbyss92]

Loved the video! He was right about the flower btw. I’ve water propagated all sorts of plants, so I have some experience on the subject. There’s a chance it could root and I’ve successfully done it before, but the percentage goes waaaay down once a stem has flowered. Always take a cutting from a new, green section with at least 2 nodes (the part where leaves come out) and trim the top to promote growth downwards instead of upwards. Depending on the type of plant, in a few weeks a couple of roots will start to grow from the nodes! Don’t forget to change the water once a week and you’ll have a healthy cutting ready to transfer into soil in no time!

[@workinonchangin]

One of my greatest joys in life is taking avocado pits and watching them turn into trees. Even if I never got avocados from them, I would still be so jazzed!! :)

[@LmaoMoni]

I like to sprout grocery store seeds as a hobby. I like the mystery of having to wait several year to see what you get ^_^.

[@abyssal_phoenix]

I am an experimental gardener, so I tested some out. Pepper: Before the seeds germinate, the seeds died of root fights. Corn: Those corn seeds decompose instead of germinating. Garlic: This works, but they die after planting cause you damage everything too much Dragonfruit: would work. I prefer drying them so the flesh won’t mold Walnut: didn’t try it. We already have a massive tree that is older than me. Leek: (So this is what the English name). I regrow it in water first, then soil. Doesn’t end up as large as the original. Watermelon: didnt try it. Strawberries: I use this method (together with drying again), since I crossbreed them. Carrot: I did this. I like to use the greens as a snack. Tomato: haven’t tried it, but looks plausible Flower: never tried it. Cause you are basically making a zombie. I prefer getting the seeds for next year Green union: never tried it

[@LmaoMoni]

The garlic one actually worked for me. But i live in scotland so our spring feels like winter

[@jayamilapersson4030]

I also got garlic I live in Sweden we get cold winters sometimes

[@umeuzair]

I got garlic, onions, leeks, tomato, potato n pepper. Have some thing growing out of the cucumber one but don't really know for sure if its actually cucumber or just some wild growth. also got lentil n beans microgreens as well as coriander n mint leaves. no luck with the lettuce or iceberg. have also started rose cuttings. yesterday I checked n two of them have the tiniest roots coming out. still waiting for the rest though.

[@stuffwelike7184]

Thank you for this. I tried so many when I first started gardening and wasted so much time on it. Wish I had seen something like this first. Good that it's here so others new to gardening don't fall for it.

[@nielsdeclercq8511]

5:50 my grandpa planted a seed for a tree when i was born and it truly is amazing to have a tree that is like yours, epic conection

[@johngagon]

Love these videos. Re: Strawberries, strawberries have runners that are extremely prolific between May and July in zone 7. The real hack is using 1-2 plants and over the course of just a few years and getting a 4x4 bed full or even a yard full. Germinating strawberries from seed is not so easy and the germination rate, hybrid and sprout/transplant care problems are worse before a certain breaking point than with runner clone cuting or original plants. The kind I like are fairly cold hardy, they look greener than the grass in the winter and attractive..so much so that I'm considering them as a kind of backup edible ground cover with no mowing since they never get tall and read very easily when it comes to ground moisture. Flowering lawn might look unkept to some but there's still alternatives like thyme (which has many varieties like woolly, variegated or basic). Some weeds are easier to remove than others so I prefer purslane, chickweed, thyme over say bermuda grass which is an impossible to control plant. As for flowers, I think it can be done but it takes more preparation and cutting at a node and you'd never rely on just one cutting to make it.