Anyone know where in the world I could buy Wasabi seeds?

BACKCOUNTRY said:

I was actually going to look into growing as a legal cash crop, it goes for around $100 a pound. I'll probably look into growing Horseradish for personal use, since I like it as well(I doubt I've actually ever tasted real Wasabi anyways).

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JamieShoes said:

ever so slightly off topic, but I heard Safron was an awesome (and legal) cash cropper too

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C. sativus prefers friable, loose, low-density, well-watered, and well-drained clay-calcareous soils with high organic content. Traditional raised beds promote good drainage. Soil organic content was historically boosted via application of some 20–30 tonnes of manure per hectare. Afterwards—and with no further manure application—corms were planted.[15] After a period of dormancy through the summer, the corms send up their narrow leaves and begin to bud in early autumn. Only in mid-autumn do they flower. Harvests are by necessity a speedy affair: after blossoming at dawn, flowers quickly wilt as the day passes.[16] All plants bloom within a window of one or two weeks.[17] Roughly 150 flowers yield 1 gram (0.035 oz) of dry saffron threads; to produce 12 g of dried saffron (72 g freshly harvested), 1 kg of flowers are needed (1 lb for 0.2 oz of dried saffron). One fresh-picked flower yields an average 30 milligrams (0.46 gr) of fresh saffron or 7 milligrams (0.11 gr) of dried saffron.[15]

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danimal7 said:

I hear real Wasabi rarely leaves Japan

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BACKCOUNTRY said:

A quick scan of E-bay has Saffron selling for .17 to 1.00 per gram, I'll have to look into it........

Edit: I went and looked at Wikipedia, here is a snippet on cultivation:

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BACKCOUNTRY said:

Heh heh, I'm perfectly aware of the differences between European Horseradish and true Wasabi(Japanese Horseradish), I'm also aware that much of what is bought and sold as "Wasabi" is actually European horseradish(even in Japan).

I want to grow REAL Wasabi, hence my attempt to reach out to my international brethren for inside info on local sources of seeds not listed on the net, the seeds are rarer than most any Cannabis seeds you could think of.

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