Sesamum indicum
Origin: Massachusetts
Improvement status: Breeding population
Seeds per packet: ~100
Germination tested 10/25: 83%
Life cycle: Annual
This is an exciting population of brown, tan, and white-seeded sesame selected in the Northeast by our friend Hannah Traggis. You can expect considerable variation in size, plant architecture, and ripening times, making this an excellent population from which to select a regionally-adapted sesame that meets your specific culinary desires as well.
If you've never grown sesame before, this is a great place to start. You'll soon find it's not only a productive and delicious plant, but highly ornamental as well, easily passing as a close cousin of a foxglove (though they are not even in the same family).
Our seed comes from our friends at the Freed Seed Federation in Massachusetts.
GROWING TIPS: Start sesame a couple weeks before last frost under cover (in a greenhouse or indoors). Plant out once soil warms in spring. Give plants about a foot each, as some will branch. If plants begin to lodge (fall over), you can support them with stakes or a classic Florida-weave, as you might tomatoes.
