🌰 Selected seeds
Proven germination for nurseries or small trials.
Sizes: pound and kilo
How to grow cardamom in Latin America
Learn how to grow cardamom and turn it into a new source of income on your farm
If you grow coffee or cocoa, or have forest or shaded areas, cardamom can fit into your land and bring extra income without affecting your main crops.
A crop that fits your farm: sustainable and profitable
Cardamom adapts well to Colombian conditions and to regions with fertile soil, constant humidity and natural shade. It can be planted among coffee, cocoa or timber trees, helping conserve the soil, maintain biodiversity and make use of areas where other crops do not thrive.
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Profitable from the 3rd year.
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Ideal between 600 and 1,500 m above sea level.
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Produces for 20+ years with good management (perennial crop).
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One of the world's most expensive spices, with a large international market.
Start with seeds, rhizomes or ready-to-plant seedlings
We supply cardamom planting material produced in Colombia's Coffee Region, under natural shade and with sustainable farming practices. Ideal for farmers who want to establish their own plots or start a nursery.
🌿 Cardamom rhizomes
Fast, uniform propagation and an earlier harvest.
Minimum order: 100 units
🌱 Ready-to-plant seedlings
From nurseries in Quindío, adapted to shade systems.
Minimum order: 100 units
* Availability of seedlings and seed depends on our nursery capacity and the time of year.
* We deliver planting material within Colombia. For other countries, contact us first: importing live plant material requires a phytosanitary permit from the destination country.
Everything you need to know to grow cardamom
We have designed online courses and learning resources so you can learn, step by step, how to plant, manage and profit from cardamom from your farm or home, anywhere in the world, on your computer, tablet or phone.
Courses and guides are taught in Spanish.
📖 Practical guide to successful cardamom germination
Step by step to a uniform, healthy germination: seed selection and treatment, and the right humidity and shade.
See details📖 Practical guide to establishing a cardamom mother plantation from rhizomes
How to select, prepare and plant rhizomes for a vigorous, productive mother plantation: soil, shade, management and organic fertilisation.
See details📖 Agronomic guide to planting and maintaining cardamom crops
Best practices for planting, managing and sustaining cardamom: soil, climate, fertilisation, pest control and post-harvest.
See detailsTechnical support for growing producers
If you already have a plot in production, we offer online guidance and sorting and grading of dried cardamom to help you reach the quality the market demands.
🧪 Sorting and grading
Raise the selling value of each lot with colour and size standards.
📊 Personalised online advisory
Interpreting results, adjusting crop management or designing nurseries. Sessions in Spanish.
A sustainable, forest-friendly production model
We promote growing cardamom under natural shade and in agroforestry systems, alongside native trees, coffee and cocoa. This protects the soil, conserves water and gives economic value to the forest areas of a farm.
"Cardamom doesn't replace your crop, it complements it."
Take the next step towards your own cardamom crop
If you have land, farming experience and want to diversify, cardamom can be the next chapter of your farm. Start with knowledge, quality planting material and the guidance of people who already grow it in Colombia.