Russian Comfrey - 3 Live Root Cuttings - Bocking 4 - Comphrey - Knitbone (3)

6/29/2020: Three root cuttings received way before the delivery time promised. I will update the progress here. Look good so far. 6/29/2020: after soaking for six hours I planted the three root cuttings in three pots filled with miracle grow organic potting soil and watered till the water drained from the holes at the bottom of the pots. Placed on tiles at a bright corner that does not receive direct in light. 7/16/2020: almost two weeks after planting, I still don’t see any sprouts. I didn’t dig to see if there is any root development because I don’t want to disturb it. I keep my rating for four weeks. 7/24/2020: I still don’t have any green sprouts! I moved the pots from partial sun area to full sun a few days ago and places a tray under them to water from bottom. I hope I see something before the summer as it has been almost a month since I planted these. If the seller reads these reviews I would appreciate note on How long it will take for these to root and grow leaves. I read that it’s very hard to get rid of comfrey roots. I don’t have success to sprout them :). 8/27/2020: my first batch of three root cuttings never grew. I contacted amazon and was refunded. I ordered another five root cuttings now to give it another chance. Looks like this seller is the only blocking 4 provider. I hope I have better luck this time. 11/17/2020. I ordered a second batch of five. This time all of the root cuttings sprouted even the smallest one. The key is to not over water it I think. Once a week if the temperature is not in 90s should be ok it took more than a month for them to sprout as well so be patient. I changed my rating to five stars.

Received these wrapped in foil. Very hot day (if you live in NC, you know what I'm talking about). It's been 17 days since planting and only 1 has come up. I'll update if the others sprout. If not, I will contact seller and hope for they'll send me more. Update: 7/21/24 It's been over a month and only 3 in total have come up. Not real satisfied with that number since these cost so much. I will reach out to the seller and see if they can and will send me more. I'll see.

Incredibly healthy grew quickly into vibrant healthy plants in 2 weeks I was amazed and kinda cautious about putting it in the ground now. The root pieces were small and did so well how quickly it may spread... they are beautiful and still in pots. Very impressive. One of the root pieces was left longer soaking in the water and it put on leaves starting to grow right there in the cup of water so pretty and green!

Quick delivery and all of mine are growing! I am very excited to add comfrey to my herbal garden. The only reason I did give a full 5 stars is the packaging ( they were wrapped in tin foil) and the directions were a bit incomplete, they tell you how to get it growing but not when to plant it in the ground or where to plant it.

I planted the roots in early July. The earliest ones broke ground in 11 days. All came up within 2 weeks. Here they are in 3 gallon bags 6 weeks after planting the roots. I took the 3 smallest plants and they are now in big 10 gallon pots. Before taking this pic I took a few leaves from each plant. I offered them to my chickens and they LOVED it! Bocking 4 is the way to go. Edited to add a pic of some of the plants that were put into the big pots. We had a few freezes but surprisingly, they never went dormant. They wilted a bit but perked right up when the sun hit them. Those plants were already harvested four times. I just dug up one of the smaller bags and started about 50 new plants from root cuttings.

It grows great along the fence line! I'm gonna split it into more plants in the future. I use comfrey as fertilizer for all my other plants! It looks great where it grows as is!!

Ok, first off, this did arrive in a timely manner - it is, after all plant material. It was in a bubble pack and not flattened. When I opened the package, there was no invoice or any indication of what was inside. I found the roots folded in aluminum foil, not a sealed plastic bag as expected. On the plus side, they were still damp. Instructions for planting were printed on a small label that was wet and unreadable. The size if the root cuttings was ample and several had developed small roots as you might be able to see in my bad photo of the right cutting. Only one cutting had mold - left cutting- but was long enough to remove without shortening too much. I suspect these are actual comfrey roots as the look like ones I've seen in the field dug up. Since there are several varieties of comfrey available, it would be nice to know which one was in the package as I really have no clue.

I purchased 3 cuttings (almost $50 including shipping) and followed the instructions on the label, yet after one month of tending the pots where I planted my cuttings, none sprouted. I tried to get a refund but Amazon is set up to give money back only after they receive the merchandise return (!?) What am I supposed to return? I was really looking forward to starting my comfrey patch so I'm double disappointed because I have no comfrey, couldn't even get a refund or get new cuttings sent.