While most people enjoy purchasing and consuming kratom powder and other products, it’s also possible to buy a kratom plant and grow it. Growing kratom can be a challenging but rewarding task. It requires some specific conditions and general gardening skill. If you enjoy kratom and also gardening, we recommend trying your hand at growing kratom yourself at home.
We will break down some of the key informational components of growing kratom in this guide, including how to get seeds or cuttings. Overall, we hope to provide tips and tricks on how to grow kratom in this article.
Remember that kratom is also known scientifically as Mitragyna speciosa. While you research growing kratom plants, you may want to use this scientific term in some searches to produce the best results.
If you are interested in more general kratom consumption tips and info, head to our main page here.
How to get a kratom plant
Acquiring a kratom plant may seem confusing, but it’s actually quite easy.
Growing a kratom plant from seeds
There are 2 different ways you can go about getting your kratom plant. The first option is to get kratom seeds:
Kratom seeds are sold in a variety of online stores and physical locations. It’s unlikely that your local gardening store will have kratom seeds, so it’s best you opt to buy seeds online. We did some research on reliable websites that sell kratom seeds.
You can find kratom seeds on this website: https://www.mitrascience.com/product/kratom-seeds-for-sale/
From our research, we find that kratom seeds are abundant online but the process for vendors to acquire, package, and transport kratom seeds is difficult. Kratom seeds naturally come in kratom seed pods, which are very delicate pods that break easily. The pods contain hundreds of kratom seeds, with each seed having small odds of germinating and sprouting.
This means that buying kratom seeds can be expensive and a bit tricky. Once you get the kratom seeds in the mail, you will want to take care of them gently and try to plant them as quickly and safely as possible.
If you successfully acquire kratom seeds or seed pods in good condition, you’re in luck.
Growing a kratom plant from a cutting
The second option for growing a kratom plant is to acquire a kratom plant cutting. A cutting is a small part of the plant, usually the stem or a large branch, cut off from the plant/tree. You use a cutting by placing the bottom part of the branch or stem into the ground and growing it like a normal plant with some extra care.
Buying kratom tree/plant cuttings online can be easier than getting seeds. This is because cuttings are easier to mass produce compared to delicate, fragile seeds.
Using a cutting may be the better option for a home grow than kratom seeds. Cuttings are more widely available online than kratom seeds. Another key factor of using kratom plant cuttings is that their success rate is higher. Seeds can be more inconsistent than cuttings.
Kratom plant natural habitat
It’s important to recognize and understand the natural habitat that kratom plants grow from before you attempt to recreate the conditions at home.
Kratom plants grow in Southeast Asia in countries like Thailand and Indonesia. The plant is very abundant here naturally, as these regions serve the plant very effectively.
The kratom plant, also known as Mitragyna speciosa, grows very well in these climates because of the swampy, wet grounds and high humidity. The kratom plant does well in wet soils and humid air, but not to the extreme of a fully drowned piece of land. Of course, kratom also prefers highly enriched soil to help it grow.
Home kratom growing conditions
Because of the conditions above, you’ll want to recreate this environment to produce the best results when growing kratom at home. It will be almost impossible to grow a kratom plant indoors, due to the lack of direct, full sunlight and the lack of humid conditions. Indoor home conditions are almost never as humid as the kratom plant prefers.
Thus, growing kratom outside is a necessary feat for a successful grow.
We recommend having at least a small yard to be able to grow kratom. Because kratom grows best in humid, wet environments, you will want to pick the best time of year to grow kratom. Warm, humid conditions will typically mean growing in spring or summer depending on your location in the world.
If you live in a region that is humid and warm year-round such as Florida, USA or other similar climates, you can get away with growing kratom more times of the year outside of simply summer. But, for most people, the only time you can reasonably grow kratom effectively will be the intense summer season months.
How to grow a kratom plant
In this section, we will now walk through some of the steps and additional requirements for growing kratom. Try not to skip on any steps, or else you will risk the plant dying and wasting the money and time you invested in acquiring your kratom seeds or cutting.
Keep in mind that kratom is a tree/plant like any other plant in our world. While kratom does has prefer some conditions as explained above, it will still grow like other plants you have in your garden. If you garden other plants or vegetables, you should have minimal issues with growing kratom in your garden.
Keep in mind you will need basic gardening equipment like a shovel, a water sprinkler, gloves, etc.
Recommended Soil for Growing Kratom
Kratom will grow well in any enhanced soil you have or can find at a local store. You can also buy enriched soil that holds water well online on Amazon.
Enriched soil is a good idea because it contains the extra nutrients that help plants like kratom grow effectively. Enriched, well-made soil can also help prevent against disease and mold which can infect the plant.
Outdoor Growing Space
You will need a large enough outdoor space to grow a small-to-medium plant. You will also want a space that can get a mix of direct and indirect sunlight.
Optionally, you can grow the kratom plant in a pot so you can easily move it around. In the beginning of the grow cycle, whether it’s a cutting or a seed, you will want mostly indirect sunlight. As the plant grows, you can move it into a spot with more direct sun to speed up the process.
If you use a pot, you can also modulate the amount of water in the soil more easily. If you elect not to use a pot, make sure to use a raised bed at minimum. This will help keep other natural plants away from your kratom plant roots and growing process.
Watering your kratom plant
The kratom plant will prefer more water than some other commonly garden plants. You will want to lightly water the plant every day, especially in the early stages. If your area is getting a lot of rain naturally, then you don’t need to add more than is needed. Simply keep the soil nice and moist.
Overwatering your kratom plant can lead to issues like mold and wilting. This is a fine line to walk, so be sure to monitor your kratom plant for any signs of a decline in health due to overwatering. As a general tip, overwatering any kind of plant can cause mold to form and kill the plant. Kratom plants are no exception to this rule.
The grow process
As you follow this guide, the kratom plant should grow well. Keep in mind that kratom plants naturally will continue to grow into full-blown trees. Where kratom plants grow successfully in Southeast Asia, they grow to be very large tall trees. Keeping this in mind, you will want to think about your goals and priorities with your kratom plant.
The plant will change as it gets bigger, and depending on your goals, it will produce different amounts of the desired effect depending on the age. See more on this below.
Harvesting and re-growing a kratom plant
Now that you have a kratom plant that’s well along the grow cycle, it’s time to think about the harvest. You can simply cut your entire kratom plant down at a young-to-adult size and consume it this way. This would mean that you’ve fully harvested the kratom plant and won’t have any opportunity to use it for another grow.
To get more plants out of your first kratom plant, you will want to take cuttings. We explained cuttings above, but to cover it again, cuttings are small branches or roots cut off of the plant. You can take these cuttings and replant them in the ground to grow additional plants.
This is a fragile process, because if you take a bad cutting you can kill the original plant. If your original plant dies and your cuttings don’t grow, then you will need another plant to start over with.
Given this information, the best option for re-growing a kratom plant is by taking cuttings and re-planting them. We recommend using a general guide from Google on how to take plant cuttings to do this properly. Any guide online should follow the procedure well.
Conclusion
The main takeaway from this guide is that kratom plants grow much like any other plants. They require water, sunlight, and time. The trickier components come from are trying to grow kratom from a cutting or a seed, as this is represents a delicate, risky process. It’s a process worth enduring, as growing and consuming your own kratom will be rewarding.
If you already have gardening skills, you will grow kratom just fine. If you don’t, we recommend growing some other basic outdoor plants to learn the ropes. Good luck, and click here to get back to our homepage!
