Chia Pet

Pros: Great Gag Gift
Cons: Overpriced

Chia Head, Chia Dog, Chia Cat, Chia Sheep, Chia Seal, Chia Tree - there is a Chia everything. These are NOT beautiful plants - go to a nursery if you want pretty flowers and shrubbery.

These are cheap (not price wise) novelties that grow low...

Pros: Chia Herb Garden is useful, I like having the fresh herbs on hand.
Cons: Only three of the six types of seeds worked.

This review is of the Chia Herb Garden, which is actually much more useful than any of the Chia Pets. The herb garden has given me a bountiful supply of basil and parsley, which I have transplanted into larger pots and use on a regular basis. The fresh...

Pros: Green is my fav color
Cons: theyre messy and childish

I would NEVER i repeat NEVER buy a cheesy thing like a Chia Pet. Who in there right mind would waste 20 bucks on something that just stands there and grows grass and then dies? There is so much else in the world that you could spend 20 dollars on....

Pros: Learning experience
Cons: Ugly

I purchased a chia pet for my brother a few years ago. Man, that thing was ugly, ha ha ha ha. It was a turtle sculpture with a green afro, quite odd. My brother had to water it every day after putting the seeds on the sculpture. It grew and took and...

Pros: Chia-cat looked like it might provide some fresh snacking for our real cat.
Cons: Seeds grow whitish mold, not sprouts of green and certainly not an entire coat!

We got a "Chia Cat" for Christmas, and tried growing it that winter using the plastic bags to keep it moist. It sprouted a little, but then died. We figured it was just too cold in our Philly apartment in the dead of winter.

We tried it again this summer, a time when it is really hot with high humidity! Again, we saw a few sprouts, but then after about a week and a half the majority of the seeds on the outside just started to mold. So now we put it out on the outside porch with lots of water and sunshine, and the mold continues to grow.

I think sometimes when you adopt a new pet, it's just bad and you should send it back. This Chia was not meant to love us.