Growing Moringa in my Balcony

Having bought a pack of Moringa seeds from the Sahara Exhibition that was held in Cairo last month I selected a suitable day for planting them where the moon was in a suitable zodiac. I watered thoroughly and waited. I waited for several days and there were no signs of anything germinating. I kept my fingers crossed for a week and more yet nothing still happened. I started to worry but still had hope. Upon visiting my pots in the balcony a few days ago I discovered that 3 of the seeds have actually germinated and shot up superbly. Two days ago I found that a fourth seed has also germinated while the others grew taller and a bit bigger. I rejoiced!

Today I Googled for [harvesting moringa] and came across this interesting article about harvesting Moringa leaves. I'm planning to harvest some leaves and try to make tea out of them when the plants are a bit bigger. I had tasted Moringa tea before and it tasted wonderful!

Moringa leaves

Having Googled a few days ago for [growing moringa] I came across this webpage about growing Moringa from which I learnt that the variety I am growing is called Moringa Oleifera. I realized this from the picture of the seeds present in that webpage. The other type of Moringa, that I am not growing, is called Moringa Stenopetala, which is actually the one I had tasted the tea of several months ago.

I hope my moringa trees start growing rapidly and I start harvesting their leaves to make tea out of them and perhaps eat the leaves as well!