Botanical nomenclature: Bixa orellana
Common name: Achiote, Annatto
Family: Bixaceae
Origin: South America
A large shrub or small tree native to tropical South America and widely cultivated elsewhere for its intensely red seeds that are popular as a spice and food colorant. It also makes an attractive and colorful ornamental with its bristly green or red seed pods.
Bixa orellana ( English )
If you do not have a seed spreader, greenhouse or similar; proceed as follows:
Fill a container that provides good drainage, with peat and pearlite.
Moisten the substrate so as not to soak it.
Place the container, or vase in a polyethylene bag (can be ziplock), found for sale in supermarkets.
This way, you will be providing ideal temperature and humidity for the germinative phase of the seeds.
Your seed should remain in a bright place, but without direct sunlight.
Every 2 to 3 days it must be opened and checked for humidity or if any seed has already germinated. That way you will also be doing an air exchange and avoiding undesirable fungi.
Bixa orellana seeds will usually germinate between 60 and 180 days, even under good conditions germination may be erratic.
Sow Bixa orellana seeds on the surface of a Peaty seed sowing mix at about 25°C.
After germination, transfer to individual pots very carefully so as not to damage the roots of small seedlings.
Try to acclimatize the small seedlings for a minimum period of 4 - 12 weeks, before transplanting them to the final location; and try to do it only on cloudy days.
Prepare the planting pit between 2 to 4 weeks before transplanting with fertilizers necessary for its perfect development.
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