Jute (aka Eqyptian Spinach) seeds sprout overnight but the seedlings are tiny and can take months to get big enough to eat. When they do start flowering the plants will quickly bolt, so I like to take cuttings before that happens in order to get more plants in a shorter time.
Diminutive flowers are edible as well as attractive. As long as I keep picking them off to eat, new flowers will keep coming. If I miss some, they will turn into tiny pods which are tasty and nutritious when they are small and tender.
This may look deader than a doornail just a few minutes after the stem is cut, but by morning it will be completely recovered and in a week or so it will have viable roots. The parent plant will then branch out instead of continuing to grow straight up on a single stem.