Do you want a plant that blooms for months with very little care? Find out how to grow flowering broccoli

Broccoli is one of the healthiest foods in the world: it is, in fact, a vegetable with excellent nutritional values - one that can be eaten practically without any risk to a diet, and which is often the basis of many diets suggested by experts.

To eat them, we usually cut them in order to separate the stems carefully and then we boil them for a long time, until they become soft and easily chewable. Seeing them "whole", we are reminded of a bouquet of flowers, with all the stems joined in the center and then the umbrella-shaped top (or head of hair, depending on your point of view). And in fact, the part of the plant that we eat there are exactly the flowers that are still closed and have not bloomed as yet.

However, if we let them grow and mature we will discover that they develop into a really beautiful plant to behold, with many lovely, yellow flowers. It could be a fun experiment to try and grow some at home!

via @justplantaesthetics/TikTok

Tutorial via @justplantaesthetics/TikTok

As you can see shown in this TikTok video, just take a stem of broccoli with its green and still compact foliage, (exactly like if you had to cook the plant in boiling water), and put it like any cut flower into a vase or a glass filled with water. You can put a single stem in the water.

Within a few days you will see that green flowers begin to open to light, yellow petals will start to bloom, and the whole top of the broccoli will be transformed.

Just like when propogating plants using cuttings, it is important to change the water every few days to prevent it from becoming cloudy. If you do this, in addition to continuing to see the flowers bloom, you will notice that roots sprout at the base of the stem: the plant is propogating and is ready to be planted into the ground (if you want to do this).

At this point you could continue with the hydroculture or moving the budding plant into a pot. If you keep these plants in a sunny place and don't forget about them, they can continue to bloom for a long time, even producing long, thin branches of yellow flowers.

Have you ever tried growing broccoli flowers? Would you like to try this small and inexpensive experiment?