Welcome to growing your own food and your own backyard. If you are new to my channel please consider subscribing and don't forget to hit the like button. I want to give you an update on growing moringa plants indoors and outdoors in zone 5B semi-arid environment. Now I have previous videos on growing moringa plants but this year I'm growing these two moringa plants outdoors. As you can see they are very healthy. This one here actually was grown from this particular tree that I cut off about 6 months ago because when moringas get really laggy you really want to chop them back or cut them back so that they can bush out like this. If you have plants that are very forgiving you can actually take a moringa plant that literally died back and stick it in the soil and it will grow again. They are referred to as miracle plants so they have so many beneficial properties. In this particular case this little one here is growing from a seed and again this one is growing from a plant that a tree that I chopped off and you can see that is now got 18 inches high on it. This one here is growing from a seed. One thing that you want to keep in mind is that moringa plants have long tap roots almost kind of look like a carrot root and so they need a lot of depth in order to grow. Now in my case I cannot grow moringas in the ground because we are zone 5B we have a short growing season and by the time the moringas really gets growing and gets started it's time to rip them up. Rip them out of the ground I should say. So I have to grow my moringa plants in containers. As the moringa gets taller then what I prefer to do is basically just cut it back, harvest the top part of the tree and then allow it to grow back some more. Some of the challenges I am having with bringing moringas into my home when the weather gets cold is that they go through an acclimation adjustment where now they are leaving the outdoor sunlight and they are coming into an indoor southern exposure window or they are going on my grow light they go through this adjustment the leaves turn yellow and they drop. But again the moringa plants very forgiving and then they grow back again. But I think I got maybe a good two months on this particular moringa tree. I am expecting it to get about this tall. I will go ahead and chop it down halfway, harvest the leaves and then bring them indoors. In this particular case if this moringa plant takes off I would also put it in a larger container, keep it elongated, make sure the containers are have depth in it so that they can grow. Now I am going to bring you indoors and show you a trial and error I had with one of my moringa plants and one that is grown in a container like this that is indoors is doing real well. And I want to talk to you about some of the trials and errors that I have had growing moringa plants and I want to give you some tips on how to not make the mistakes I have made so that you can continue growing them well indoors. Follow me. These are the two moringa plants I am growing indoors. As you can see this one I started April of 2021 from seed and this is just a little taller than the one outdoors and this one here is where I made my mistake. Here is a photo of my moringa that was about two feet tall and it was really really doing well and I thought the moringa needed watering. So I put my finger all the way down to the soil. I also took a spade and literally pushed the soil back and it was very dry and went on it and watered the moringa plant. Unfortunately the moringa leaves started yellowing and they started dropping off to the point where all of the leaves dropped off. When I decided to investigate and determine what the problem was I took out half the soil in this container and about half way down the taproot was totally moist from this point all the way down because I have taken all half the soil out which made me realize that the soil further down this pot the taproot was very moist but the soil up here was dry. The plant got too much water. It was still very moist. It did not need to be watered but I did not know that because from the top half way down here it was deceiving and I thought that the plant needed to be watered. So what I've learnt from this particular trial and error is you really have to gauge when the soil really dries out. From this point on I would realize that I would have to go a lot longer before I watered the plant. So this has been some of the issues I've been having with trying to grow moringa is trying to engage when the plants need to be watered and when they don't. So that's a difficult challenge that I've been having lately but I am bit on being successful in growing moringa plants because they are a miracle tree. They have leaves, have so many properties and if I can get my moringa to flower again as you can see in my previous videos my moringa did flower then I would be able to successfully continue to grow moringa's indoors and outdoors in zone 5b with a growing season for four months. As both these moringa plants are growing in a grow light they are doing very well. This one would continue to do well. I probably would have had this on the floor had I not watered it prematurely and I would probably be about three feet tall I would have harvested and cut it back. So just wanted to give you updates on growing moringa in zone 5b, indoors and outdoors. Some of the trials and errors that I'm incurring growing moringa plants and some tips that I'm giving on how to successfully grow moringa plants. Definitely grow them in tall pots that have got a lot of depth because again their tap roots go deep. And if you're growing a moringa plant in a northern climate or in a zone where you have a short growing season make a comment below. Let me know. Thank you for watching and don't forget to hit the like button.