Wanted: Gypsy pepper seeds - offering trades

   I am looking for seeds from a pepper variety called "Gypsy".  I need only
6 to 8 seeds, because I want to try this variety out this year on a very
limited basis.  I'm hoping someone else out there might be trying this
variety this year, and be willing to trade a few of their extra seeds away.

  Gypsy is a sweet, prolific variety that is supposed to be excellent for
fresh use, stuffing or frying.  I particularly liked the small cluster of
seeds in a large inside cavity - looks great for stuffing.  I also like how
they appear to go from yellow to orange to red as they ripen - giving you
the choice of 3 colors from a single plant.

  In trade, I can offer "Sweet Million" tomato seeds, which are an
improvement on the older "Sweet 100".  I can also offer a few seeds of
"Fooled You" hybrid pepper - a virtually 'heat free' jalapeno variety that
still has the great taste, but is excellent for those of us who can't stand
the hotness.

  I also have some new packets of lettuce: "Marvel of Four Seasons", "Lolla
Rossa", & "Bibb".

  If you might be interested in trying an heirloom variety, I have one that
hasn't been sold in catalogs since the 1940's.  I got a sample a couple of
years ago from the USDA, and raised some.  It is a very cold hardy variety
called "Ziegler's Heirloom".

 

Gypsy is available almost everywhere online and costs about $2 a
packet. Splurge.

 
  I've already placed my seed order this year, at a place that unfortunately
didn't carry Gypsy, but had everything else I wanted.  I've also checked
locally, but haven't found it.

  I have found a few places online that carry Gypsy, but it is $3 a packet
or more, plus about $5 in shipping/handling.  I just can't bring myself to
pay $8 when I only want 2-3 plants total for my garden.

  That's why I got on here asking if anyone would be interested in doing a
trade.  I'd much rather avoid an artificially high shipping/handling cost
AND help someone with a trade at the same time.   Anyone interested?  I grew
up doing seed trades all the time, and was hoping that folks on here still
did that.

 OhioGuy wrote:

If I had some seeds, I'd send them to you.  But "Gypsy" is an F1 hybrid,
so it won't come true from seeds.  I often save the seeds from hybrids
anyway and the offspring is usually good and *resembles* the parent
variety, but it's seldom the same.

Just thought I'd warn you about the hybrid thing,
Bob

 OhioGuy wrote:

I would check locally a little more.  Around here, all the good
gardening stores carry Gypsy Pepper seeds.  There are not available at
places like Wal*Mart, Lowes, or any place like that but I'm sure that if
you check the REAL gardening places that you will find them.

By the way, why are you posting from a news server in Italy?  The one
that you are using is a well known place where "bad" people post from.
I'm not saying that you are one of them but every time I see a post from
Aioe.org I wonder.
--
Bill R.      (Ohio Valley, U.S.A)

Gardening for over 40 years

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