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Post by robin282 on Jan 28, 2008 10:49:52 GMT -5
Hello,
I am new here. A kind person e-mailed me after seeing my post about helping to preserve heirloom pepper strains telling me about this site.
I will post what I wrote here:
Do you have a special pepper you like that you have seed for, but maybe not the time or space? I am looking for special pepper seed to grow out. I am willing to trade for it, but my main objective is to grow out a quantity of seed to return to you. I have had great success growing peppers, and I want to help preserve a special strain for someone.
If you have an heirloom pepper--whether ornamental, hot, or sweet--please contact me, and I would be willing to start plants (and send a few to you), and grow out the plants to save seed. I will return some seed to you, keep some for myself, and offer the rest to Garden Web members.
I choose peppers because I have had such surprising good luck with them, and everybody grows tomatoes (just about).
I am also currently working on a more frost tolerant string bean, and had some success last year. A good quantity of plants made it through a good April frost, and I have saved seed from those. When I do a few more grow outs, I will be offering these as well.
Send me your peppers! I will trade, SASBE, or whatever you like.
Robin
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Post by Alan on Jan 28, 2008 18:43:50 GMT -5
Thanks for posting Robin. This fall I will have several things to send your way if your interested, including several varieties I have been working with and local heirloom and open pollinated types that can't be found elswhere. I'll keep you updated and hopefully others will respond as well.
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Post by robin282 on Jan 30, 2008 14:54:31 GMT -5
Thank you.
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Post by canadamike on Jan 30, 2008 15:42:33 GMT -5
I gave my extras, but I will make sure to get seeds from TOPEPO ROSSO, DOE HILL and ALMA PAPRIKA this fall. To my taste, bells are bells and there is not much difference between mine and the store bought varities, except for nutrition of course. So I grow some, but there is much to be discovered taste wise in the cheeses and other ones like hot and semi-hot.
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Post by americangardener on Jan 31, 2008 0:16:40 GMT -5
Robin..
I sent ya a PM the other day. Check your private messages.
I'd be interested in your proposition, since i have about 800 pepper varieties to trial for next season. Any help i could get would be a big releif for me.
Dave
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Post by robin282 on Feb 5, 2008 12:35:31 GMT -5
Thanks Canada Mike!
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Post by sandbar on Feb 12, 2008 1:03:16 GMT -5
Did you mean "chilies" here? Or, do I need to learn something new?  |
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Feb 12, 2008 10:26:12 GMT -5
SB, cheese peppers are sweet pimento types for stuffing or making pepper & cheese spreads for breads (crackers, the blade of your knife, fingerlickinggood or whatever other way you can Stuff them in your face  ) |
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Post by sandbar on Feb 12, 2008 15:06:51 GMT -5
Ah, thanks Blue!
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Post by robin282 on Feb 13, 2008 15:41:43 GMT -5
I'd like to get some cheese pepper seeds; they sound interesting.
I am going to be a pepper-planting-foll this year!
Robin
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Post by sandbar on Feb 16, 2008 23:14:02 GMT -5
I ran across a pimiento variety in some catalog lately and thought to myself, "Self, you ought to try growing that thar pepper."
Now, I can't remember what catalog I saw it in ...
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Post by Alan on Feb 18, 2008 23:38:15 GMT -5
I've got a pimento that I'll be growing for seed this year that was grown in Pekin Indiana by a market farm family for over 50 years, the seed was gifted to me by a 90 year old woman who now lives in Salem who, along with her husband, once ran the largest produce farm in Washington County! I've got high hopes for it and it will be offered by the Hip-Gnosis seed development project this coming fall if all goes well!
-Alan
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Post by robin282 on Feb 19, 2008 15:15:39 GMT -5
Yay!
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Post by landarc on Feb 19, 2008 18:28:14 GMT -5
Alan, what is it about that pimento that is special? Is it the provenance, locale or something about the pepper itself? I have been getting more interested in savory, but not insanely hot, peppers recently. Pimento is a pepper I ahve been thinking about trying some day.
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Post by robin282 on Feb 21, 2008 12:50:30 GMT -5
I have been trading for some nice pepper seeds to add to the ones I already started. Dave has been kind enough to include me on his pepper project. We have a directly facing South picture window, and I put lights there, and frankly, the plants grow as well as they would outside in July. I am hoping to make a permanent set-up so that I can grow peppers all year in that window (except summer)...(well, maybe even then)...that window positively bakes the whole house, so, some nice big plants in the window would be helpful!
Once I get going with the peppers, I would also like to do preservation work for beans and some other crops. I will have to rotate what I grow and how often once things get too big! I feel very strongly about preservation of seeds (strains of plants).
Later, once I have a good stock going, I hope to share the wealth so-to-speak. I would like to send seed to people in need of food in this country and elsewhere, but I guess that is a better post for another topic.
Thanks,
Robin
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