The best seeds on Aliexpress: TOP 20 popular seeds for growing plants and crops

My dears, my name is Elena Sergeevna, and I want to ask you a question: “Have any of you ever thought about what kind of crap we eat in our food?” Yes, yes, I’m talking about all those Chinese fruits and vegetables that are found in abundance in our stores, and which then migrate to our tables and salads. There is a way out - grow everything yourself.

Troublesome? Of course, it’s reliable, and you don’t have to worry about the health of your loved ones. Yes, and economically, besides - we have an eternal crisis and vegetables cost so much that you can’t buy them. All you need is to find good seeds. This is also not an easy task, but I made my choice - seeds from Aliexpress, my opinion will help you decide on the choice of crops that you want to grow. You can see the list directly from the seller - verified by me.

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This rating is objective at the time of its preparation. Here are the most popular seeds with a high rating and a large number of positive reviews. However, you need to understand that over time this rating may become outdated as other seeds become more popular. That is why it is important not only to focus on the TOP lists, but also to independently understand what to look for when choosing.

Should I believe it?

I decided that I wanted it too, the passion of a summer resident is such a thing. But I was alarmed by the fact that the store was selling Chinese goods. Seeds, accordingly, too... Well, why won’t it grow here, won’t be accepted, won’t sprout? Guard! Moreover, this sharp chemical smell from Chinese store-bought fruits came to mind inappropriately.

What to do? A life-saving call to a neighbor-agronomist resolved all doubts. “Oh, you alarmist, and you also stuff children with biology! If you don’t water your apples with all sorts of nasty things in the form of fertilizers, where, pray tell, will all this chemistry come from? Seeds are seeds in Africa, and in China too!” And she assured me that her colleagues also have very good opinions about Chinese seeds from Aliexpress.

Well, okay, okay, I persuaded you. I opened the online store’s website again, typed in “Seeds from Aliexpress, reviews, what has grown” - and this was the test shot for my doubts.

What gorgeous pictures! And abandoned by people from our Rasseyushka. And I decided that I would place an order in winter.

During these few months, a lot of things changed my mind, and all sorts of horror stories came into my head. I even had all sorts of strange dreams like vegetables and fruits of the most incredible colors that danced around me. But in January last year, I boldly pressed the order button, deciding to first try vegetable seeds from Aliexpress. Reviews for them were most favorable.

How to choose seeds on Aliexpress

Despite the large number of products, some lots are popular, while others are not. There are several rules when choosing seeds on Aliexpress:

1. The product rating must be more than 4.5 stars. This practically guarantees that you will receive a quality product.
2. The seller's rating must be at least 95%. Practice shows that a lower figure is a big problem. There is a chance that the supplier will not ship the item or will ship the wrong product.
3. It is important to study reviews. Only they will allow you to make an objective conclusion about the quality of certain seeds.

Important

. If you buy the highest-rated seeds, you shouldn’t be sure that they will germinate. The fact is that everything depends not only on the seeds, but also on the conditions of their growth. It is necessary to provide them with ideal conditions to obtain the desired result.

Thus, it is not necessary to be guided by such ratings if you know how to choose the right products. The main thing is to be extremely careful and cooperate exclusively with reliable suppliers.

Seeds of various plants with Ali, or “...what has grown has grown!”

Buying plant seeds on Ali without winning the lottery or not?

I decided to share a few purchases on a similar topic - to answer this question Since summer has arrived (although there is some kind of terrible downpour outside), to raise the “warm” mood, here is a small review with beautiful pictures. I think there is no point in describing each purchase separately in too much detail. , therefore, such a small superficial multi-review of several lots and stores at once (or rather the results), is less likely to be a selection guide and more like fun. By the way, these stores are “thriving” and still sell seeds of plants “unknown to science” today

Sometimes you come across all sorts of “funny” plants in Chinese stores, and looking at the price, you have a stupid desire to buy something... and not so much that you really believe that what you saw in the picture will grow, but every such purchase is a “surprise” - if it grows, then WHAT FOR THE PLANT!? It’s a kind of experiment of “irrepressible curiosity.” And stores of this kind “thrive” because despite small profits there is a stable income - it’s impossible to win an argument, and most often you won’t even be able to write a negative review! After all, even before the first shoots appear (and even more so, the identification of the plant), much more time will pass than is available to you on the Ali platform for opening a dispute.

I didn’t have to buy anything exotic at all, but I still made a few interesting purchases (in my opinion).

You should probably start with the first such purchase (several years ago) - you came across bright multi-colored roses in the picture, naturally for pennies. At first I didn’t even ask any stupid questions, I just bought it...

link - aliexpress.com/item/Free-shipping-100-Seeds-Rare-Holland-Rainbow-Rose-Flower-Lover-Multi-color-Plants-Home-Garden-rare/1638639708.html ... I thought - WHAT IF!? Later, almost immediately I came across similar ones, but in a slightly less bright color, and bought them at the same time.

link- aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-3-Packs-of-Rare-Rainbow-Rose-Seeds-1-Pack-20-Seeds-For-Your-Lover/645095649.html

I was captivated by the pictures and some inexperience with such purchases (at that time), although if I had read carefully, then on the second order I could have found a more detailed description of the “multi-colored” roses and understood everything at once. The second seller did not deceive and described the truth on the product page that roses you need to tint to get this color, but this variety is simply the most convenient for getting this effect! I didn’t even bother to check what could grow from them, because they are lying around somewhere, quite possibly the seeds of a simple rosehip of “Chinese nationality”, the description discouraged me from growing this plant...

The next “colorful” purchase was strawberries “9 varieties without GMOs” - according to the seller! Well, it’s not that I want to taste blue or black strawberries, but it would be fun to show my friends this. ... and another “What if?”

link- aliexpress.com/item/Special-Free-Shipping-9-kinds-of-strawberry-seeds-red-blue-green-yellow-white-black-Seasons-Sowing/1533404230.html

Indeed, a bunch of seeds arrived packaged in bags.

And I must say that I raised THIS!!! True, they began to bloom and bear fruit only in the second year! It would seem that you could be proud and brag to your friends, but that was not the case!

At first everything was quite even... - the leaves look like strawberries, but more carved.

Buds... It bloomed... but with yellow flowers.

Strawberries were blooming nearby with white and pink flowers, so it even intrigued me - it was very similar to the truth and I was eagerly awaiting the results - what color would the berries be!?

The berries turned red rather quickly - they also grew strangely UP and did not hang down...

They look quite unusual...

Well, since I was not a botanist, for me everything turned out very well, but the berries stubbornly did not want to change color (at least to some kind!) In the end, it turned out to be not quite a strawberry, and all the same color. Or rather, it’s not strawberries AT ALL, and as I understand it’s not even a related plant WHAT kind of plant this is, I found out just recently, having scoured the Internet... I was afraid to taste it before identification, and there was hope that it would darken, if not to black, then at least until blue color This plant is called

Indian cinquefoil (lat. Potentilla indica, traditional outdated names - duchesnea, or Indian strawberry, or false strawberry, Duchesnea indica) is a type of herbaceous plant that looks like strawberries with its leaves and false fruits.

Later I tried it - it tastes absolutely tasteless... The only use, since the plant is remontant, can be kept in pots even in winter in the room - to “tease guests”... I must say that I found a use for this plant (don’t waste your efforts!).
Some of them were happily taken apart by neighbors, and some of them were used by me as ornamental plants for decoration in pots. My next experience! Oxalis multicolored - quite cute small flowers...

link - aliexpress.com/item/Hot-Sale-Oxalis-Versicolor-Flowers-Seeds-World-s-Unique-Flowers-in-Bonsai-Color-Rotary-Oxalis-Seeds/32386947459.html The seeds were planted, sprouted... but “What the hell?” there were large leaves on them... as they grew, they didn’t look like small flowers - I remembered, “Well, son, where is that seller who sold you a hamster last year!!! „©

When pulled out, fears were confirmed that “grandfather raised a turnip...”

Moreover, my wife actually planted turnips nearby...

Well, as we see the obvious similarities :))))

OK! Ours don't give up!!! Another purchase of an “unusual type of lily” (it was announced), in fact it is Gloriosa

Gloriosa (lat. Gloriosa) is a genus of flowering plants of the Colchicum family. Climbing herbaceous plant with horizontal rhizome

Damn “climbing”!!! - it’s as if you won’t open a spore, you open the bag and the seeds will scatter, or the plant will crawl away before being “identified”...

link- aliexpress.com/item/A-Package-50-Pieces-Garland-Flame-Lilium-brownii-Flower-Seeds-Balcony-Bonsai-Courtyard-Plant-Lily-Flowers/32382532285.html

The seeds have arrived...

Having already learned from bitter experience, I decided to look for what they might look like before they “crawled away”... I found a resource with photographs of exotic seeds florismania.com/photos-page.php?id=5 where I learned what the seeds should look like... and something is gnawing at me doubts... the seeds sent are five times smaller (different scales in the photo)...

Well, we could have ended there, but not all sellers are deceivers, to confirm the lot is an exception (I want to believe it) I wanted to plant wisteria in the yard

link to a NORMAL seller - aliexpress.com/item/35-pcs-bag-Purple-Wisteria-Flower-Seeds-for-DIY-home-garden-plant-Wisteria-sinensis-Sims-Sweet/1960097753.html

Why do I think it's normal? Well, first of all, I know what this plant and its seeds look like. Here is a photo of the seller (the same ones that arrived)

The seeds sprouted very well and amicably (they have already overwintered outside) and from the leaves we can confidently say that this is wisteria. The only color it blooms in is not something I will soon find out, but it comes in different colors...

I don’t know what to describe in the pros and cons, well, probably the pros are that something grows, and I didn’t get poisoned by “false strawberries”

Well, I think the conclusion is obvious : Buy if, just for fun.

The cat dog Tyson helped make the “report from the fields” - Opened the season at the time of the photo report... catches lizards

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Totally exotic

Further more. I decided to increase the degree of exoticism.

African orchid “Symbidium”

The seeds of the African orchid “Symbidium” from Aliexpress were praised by everyone in the reviews. 100 seeds of 22 different colors - almost all of them sprouted. Seeds are sold individually, one costs about 5 rubles. Only then did I immediately decide that this would be an indoor flower, no flower beds or “alpine slides”. I planted it, and you know, it grows! And how. Excellent large flowers, exactly as in the picture, drawn and presented in the photo from the site. Take your pick, you won’t go wrong.

I have already become a professional “breeder” of these flowers. And you will have to think more about what to give to friends and colleagues on March 8th. Five, even with a plus. There are different colors:

• white,
• soft pink,
• bright crimson,
• lilac,
• red
• yellow.

I was delighted by another interesting flower - anthurium. It looks like a small calla lily with leaves and flowers like wax water lilies.

Anthurium balcony

Only the colors are very different - red, green, bright purple. A package containing 120 seeds costs around 22 rubles. I can’t even believe that it’s real and not artificial. It reproduces and grows well, and is well accepted after transplantation. A miracle, not a flower. A well-deserved five. If you want to buy, I advise you to buy it here.

“I have only positive reviews of anthurium seeds from Aliexpress. I have been breeding this plant for a long time. I tried different flowers and they turned out to be strong and tenacious. There are different colors there. Even blue and green."

Next - Ostap, that is, I got carried away. The orchids began to seem somehow insipid, and I wanted a really...scorching flower.

Dionaea's Flycatcher

And then I came across stories about the seeds of the Dionea flytrap from Aliexpress. People boasted that it was not only beautiful and unusual, but also practical - flies and mosquitoes now fly around the apartment. By the way, breeders claim that in some countries the flycatcher is a New Year’s flower, which is given “for good luck.”

My husband was categorically against it when I told him what kind of addition I was planning. “You don't know what's on her mind! A flower that can open its mouth is scary! In general, a flower that simply has a mouth is terrible. What if she eats us too?!”

No arguments like “This is not a mouth!” didn't help. And in general, he’s probably a psychic, because last night I dreamed of the “smile” of my future flower - brrr. “No, I won’t take it,” I thought and went to water the geranium.

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Thanks to reviews of products from Aliexpress, even those who had never heard of it before learned about this global trading platform. Currently, the site is one of the most popular on the planet. It sells all kinds of goods (small wholesale and retail). For convenience, information about them is automatically translated into different languages.

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is a global trading platform for the sale of Chinese goods to foreign countries. Since 2022, Aliexpress has become the most popular online store in our country. More than 20% of site visitors are buyers from Russia. What attracts our people to this online store? Large range of products and, of course, low prices. The downside is that delivery times are quite long, which can reach 30 days or even more. Therefore, winter is the time when you need to start choosing and buying seed material that will arrive at the beginning of the planting season.

It is worth warning that some products that can be freely purchased on the AliExpress website are prohibited from free circulation on the territory of the Russian Federation. These include certain categories of alcohol, food, plants and seeds .

You should be especially careful and vigilant when you order seeds from Aliexpress so as not to violate Russian legislation. Plant seeds, as well as the plants themselves, are prohibited for shipment as they pose a quarantine risk. But the volume of orders from China is so large that in most cases the seeds reach the end consumer without being noticed by control and supervisory authorities. However, you should be prepared that if someone does pay attention to your order, it will be confiscated, and you will have to bear the corresponding responsibility.

Strelitzia royal seeds 100 pcs/bag

Reviews (Russia): 660 / Orders (World): 3,300

From these seeds a flower of unique beauty is obtained, reminiscent in its beauty of a bird of paradise. The package contains 100 pieces of Strelitzia regal seeds, which is considered a rare and luxurious plant. With proper care, it will delight you with its bright colors for about 7 months. The plant can be placed on the windows of the veranda, balcony, loggia, and even taken outside.

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