Tea Plant Seeds

✅ Product: Tea Plant Seeds, Camellia sinensis

✅ Seed Quantity: 5 Seeds

✅ Life Cycle: Perennial

✅ Light Requirement: Partial Shade to Full Sun

✅ Planting Season: Spring, Fall

✅ Plant Type: Shrub

✅ Features: Source of Tea Leaves (Green, Black, Oolong, White Tea)

✅ Days to Maturity: 2-3 Years to Harvestable Size

✅ Plant Spacing: 3-5 feet apart

✅ Planting Depth: Surface sow, press seeds lightly into soil

✅ Sowing Method: Start Indoors or Direct Sow

✅ Cold Stratification: Not required

✅ USDA Zones: 7, 8, 9, 10

✅ Scarification: Soak seeds in hot tap water. Let seeds stand in water for 24 hours.

✅Stratification: Cold stratify seeds for 60 days.

✅Germination: Sow seeds 3/4" deep in soil. Tamp the soil gently. Mulch the seed bed.

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