Has anyone tried to grow tea?

I’ve looked around online, but haven’t come up with much success. Have any of you tried to grow Camellia Sinensis? I know it’s tedious, but I think it would be super cool to grown and then make my own tea. It would taste better knowing that I made it you know?

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I’ve always been curious to try myself! Unfortunately I live in the wrong region of the world for that heh. I hope you figure something out :)

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SFTGFOP said

Think Tealet has started a project to have a tea plant in all 50 states.

This forum topic might be useful

http://steepster.com/discuss/6108-american-grown-teas

Oh, awesome thank you!

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GuyOne said

It will do fine if regular Camellia’s do well in your area. I’m in Western Washington and it does fine here. Raintree Nusery sells tea plants: http://www.raintreenursery.com/Tea_Breeze_Camellia_sinensis_L501.html

And there is a nursery in North Carolina that carries a selection of tea plants but I’ve not bought from them:

http://www.camforest.com/Camellia_sinensis_s/34.htm

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Nerys said

Youtube has some videos on growing tea and www.davesgarden.com/ see plant file on tea/camelia-sinensis. I might get a tea plant at our local garden center this summer.

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