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That took a while!

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So back in February I ordered turmeric rhizomes on Amazon as I could not find fresh anywhere in my area: Okay, they aren't very pretty, but I got a pound of them so I could make tinctures, plant them and keep some in the freezer for cooking. Making the tinctures wasn't hard, made some with vodka and some with apple cider vinegar: The tinctures I tucked away in the cupboard and took them out once a week or so to shake them up to make sure all the turmeric goodness had a chance to infuse the liquids it was in. Then I planted 5 rhizomes into a pot, set it in my kitchen window and started watering. Watered a pot of dirt for 6 months with no sign of anything. But I had read that turmeric was slow growing and I started to think I should have mini-greenhoused it like I had done for my garden starts the year before: Was beginning to think that I either had some rhizomes that had been treated to keep them from sprouting (even tho I got them from an organic supplier), had