Cilantro Macho

Cilantro Macho is a big, tough cilantro: larger leaves, stronger stalks, and a bolder taste. It's rich, vibrant flavor is great for high-heat, intensly flavored Latino and Asian cooking styles. It is often used fresh scattered over finished dishes or in salsas, dressings, and marinades, its leaves and stems can also be added earlier than more delicate cilantros to slow cooked dishes without losing its flavor. 

Days to maturity: 50-60

Seeds per pack: 60

Germination rate: 42% on 03/11/2025

Planting / harvesting notes

Sow indoors or direct sow in the garden. Indoors, sow seeds 1/4" deep in moist potting soil 6-8 weeks before last frost. Direct sow 1/4" deep in the garden after last frost. Seedlings emerge in 14-21 days.

Seed keeping notes

Different varieties of cilantro generally cross pollinate fairly easily within 1/2 mile of other flowering cilantro - consider isolating, caging, or bagging to prevent unwanted cross pollination between different varieties. Allow the spent cilantro flowers to ripen into plump green seeds, and then dry on the plant until the seeds have dried and turned brown. Harvest umbel by umbel, or take the entire flower stalk as all attached seeds are dry. Allow seed heads to dry out further in a protected place with good ventilation and low humidi