Seeds - Green Shiso Seeds (Perilla), Heirloom Non-GMO Seeds with Easy to Follow Planting Instructions, Kaori Ao Shiso, Open-Pollinated, 94% Germination Rate

I followed the directions, alternated freezing and thawing seeds in a cycle of 3 days each for 21 days. I soaked 15 seeds for 48 hours in a container of water and sprinkled them on top of water soaked starter soil of 50 percent sand and 50 percent sphagnum moss, wet but well drained. I also planted another 40 seeds that where not soaked in water for 48 hours about half of an inch into the soil to see if they would germinate. in 48 hours all 15 water soaked that where scattered on the soil germinated and are growing like crazy! Unfortunately, only 3 of the ones under the soil and not soaked germinated, It still has not been a week, I am expecting them to grow in the advertised four week cycle. What does this all mean? I am very satisfied with the seeds! 100 % of the water soaked seeds germinated using the freeze thaw, soak and scatter method. I have plenty of seeds left over and in only 2 days after planting I have 18 new plants germinated!

I like to order shiso seeds about once a year from this seller and have had absolutely no problems with it in the past. The flavor was outstanding and the germination rate was amazing. I ordered two packets of seeds this year, prepped it, and planted it into two separate pots. One packet of seeds did not germinate at all and the other packet of seeds grew plants but there’s a very noticeable difference in quality compared to prior years. I absolutely love the punchy taste and aroma shiso has but the plants that came from this year’s seeds have absolutely no scent and when eaten tasted like a generic bitter vegetable. I’m just pretty disappointed with the seeds this year

Why did you pick this product vs others?: Shiso (perilla) leaf is rare find in markets. These seeds were lost in the mail and the seller was kind enough to Promptly resend me some! They were excellent customer service and kind people and my replacement seeds are sprouting away! Will def buy from this seller in the future!

I followed the directions and the seeds are sprouting! I have to cover them at night because the crickets keep decapitating the seedlings, but happily, I have more sprouts than I know what to do with. Excited.

About 60-70% germinated. They have good flavor but our leaves are not very large. Will buy again though.

All seeds in the envelop did not even germinate. I tried multiple ways (soil, location, indoor start, etc.) and times, but none of the seeds did not germinate during the period of 2&1/2 months. The envelop does not have an expiration date or a recommend period/ year to sow, so the seeds might have been old. I know that shiso is strong and relatively easy to grow, so I will not buy any seeds from this distributor. Besides the bad quality of the seeds, the method of the shipping used by this company is not reliable as I had hard and long time to receive my order of the seeds.

Package arrived timely and had instructions on how to prep the seeds. We placed them on a wet towel and most of the seeds did sprout. We kinda forgot about them a couple of times so towel went dry. but quite a few sprouted and survived. It was hard to transplant them from the wet towel to the soil as they were growing into the paper towel. So we lost some, but there are a bunch of them that are growing. Next time we're going to try toilet paper as that will easily break apart and less disturbance to the roots. Still really small so going to take some time before we know what we got, but looks like the shape of the shiso leaves. This is the furthest we have gotten so far, and we are happy. I'll send a photo if they get big.

It's absolutely not Japanese shiso. It's Korean Perilla. Most of the seeds did not take but discovered that you can't cover them much.