26 feb I put seven home produced corriander seeds in a recycled plastic drink cup ( two 1/8 inch nail drain holes melted in base ) and 3/4 filled it with coars vermiculite covered it with cling film , set it in a rammakin dish so it could soak up a load of water and put it in the airing cupboard after setting it in an inch of water for 1/2 hr .
Four days later I took it out removed the cling film and set it on a sunny window cill . It has had to have four gentle watering of a soak in 1/2 inch of water to keep things damp .
It appeared as though nothing was happening till last week , when i noticed four tiny green shoots had appeared .. all seven are now through and will get potted on and set out in the greennhouse tomorrow .
Our corriander plants seem to be a three foot tall plant when run to seed , but most of the time we have just kept giving it a sever hair cut to keep it to 18 inches or so tall .
The shop purchased herb coriander does not lend itself to propagation or further growing as they are usually cloned in laboratory produced cuttings grown under optimum conditions with artificial light.
Look fot Spanish Cilantro or as we know it corriander officinalis or corriandium sgtivum