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Everything you need to know about planting saffron!

Saffron is obtained from a plant with the scientific name (Crocus sativus). Botanically, this plant belongs to the lily family. The saffron plant is a monocotyledonous and perennial plant and can easily grow in hard and stony soil. Each saffron flower has 6 petals, 3 stamens and a pistil. The stigma and red cream of this plant are collected and dried and used as saffron.

Unfortunately, a very small amount of saffron is obtained from each crocus flower. This reason makes saffron the most expensive spice in the world. Stay with Biohotel to get to know the method and conditions of planting this expensive spice.

Types of saffron planting methods:

In general, there are two basic methods for planting a plant:

Sexual reproduction of the plant
Asexual reproduction

Sexual reproduction:

In this method, the seed of the plant is used, and to create the seed, the plant must be pollinated so that the pollen fertilizes the egg of the plant and a seed or seed is created. These stages are called sexual reproductive cycle of the plant.

In terms of genetic traits, the sexually produced plant has the genes of both parent plants, and depending on the rules of heredity, it shows certain traits and is generally not similar to any of the parents. It is interesting to know that the saffron plant is a triploid and sterile plant. In other words, this plant cannot produce pollen and have sexual reproduction, as a result, seeds are not produced.

Asexual reproduction

In this method, there is no need for the stages of sexual reproduction of the plant, and the produced plant will inherit all the genetic traits of its parent and will be completely similar to the parent plant.

This method itself is divided into 5 categories:

Cuttings: It is the most common, easiest and cheapest method of asexual propagation of plants. In this method, the part of the plant that contains the bud is separated and rooted in the soil and cultivated.
Planting: a branch is separated from the mother plant and rooted in the soil, and after rooting it is planted.
Grafting: It includes connecting two pieces of living plant tissue to each other and creating an independent plant.
Propagation with vegetative structures: this method is mostly used for planting perennial herbaceous plants, including saffron. And plant vegetative structures. Among the vegetative structures, we can mention bulb, tuberous stem, rhizome, leaf, etc.
Microproliferation: this method is also called tissue culture. It is done by cultivating very small parts of the plant, including tissues or cells. These cells are cultured in sterile conditions and in artificial culture medium.