Fig. 3

Showing diverse events of saffron cultivation under complete organic regime in Sikkim Himalaya: (A) Corms procured from Kashmir (September, 2021), (B) Planting of corms on raised beds (October, 2021), (C) Flowering (November, 2021), (D) Multiplication of mother corms after flowering (November, 2021–April, 2022), (E) Mature corms (June-July 2022) (F) Flowering from the in situ multiplied corms (October- November, 2022) (G) Whole flowers, (H) Separated stigmas, (I) Dried saffron stigma. The photographs included in Fig. 3 were taken by the co-authors of this paper: Laxuman Sharma (A), Arun Chettri (B,C), Santosh K. Rai (D,E), Reshav Subba (F,G) and Rajesh Kumar (H,I).