Started seed today, 2011 here we come!

[Fusion_power]

I started 39 varieties of tomato and 12 of pepper today with intent to have seedlings ready by 2011/01/15 or thereabouts.


|Manapal |Cuostralee |Kellogg's Breakfast |Cayenne

|Marianna's Peace |Druzba |Big Beef X EPB |Orange Bell

|Opalka |Earl's Faux |Daniels |Early Jalapeno

|Picardy |Gary O'Sena |Anna Russian |Numex Chili

|Red Brandywine |Green Zebra |Atkinson |Cowhorn

|Strawberry Margarita |Heidi |Aunt Gertie's Gold |Chinese Giant

|Taps / Roma |J.D.'s Special |Amish Paste |Bhut Jolokia

|Tropic |KBX & Yoders |Black From Tula |Chapeau de Frade

|Black Cherry |Kosovo |Bloody Butcher |Sweet Banana

|Camp Joy |Lillian's yellow |Box Car Willie |Red Savina

|Sungold |Liz Birt |Brandywine |Purple Jalapeno

|Galina/Coyote |Lucky Cross |Cherokee Purple |Lemme's Italian



DarJones

[Mischka]

That's a good selection of varieties, Darrel.

For those looking to order plants from him, here's the link, which can also be found on our list of recommended sources:

http://www.selectedplants.com/

[Lee]

On the first day of Christmas Darrel sent to me
A Earl's Faux tomato seedling!
On the second day of Christmas Darrel sent to me
2 Liz Bert's and A Earl's Faux tomato seedling!
.....



Lee

P.S. Glad to see Cuostralee is on there!

[mdvpc]

Darrel

Looks very good. How many plants will you start this go-around?

[DuckCreekFarms]

Darrell

Is your place open to the public? I need to go to Cullman, AL to pick up some sweetpotatoes in the near future, Or when I can get a chance. I would love to come by (if I have time) and see your operation.

gary
www.duckcreekfarms.com

[b54red]

Darrel let me know if you have any luck with Marianna's Peace. I have had good luck with it but never when planted early.
You must be counting on us having a much shorter and milder winter than last year since you are starting so early.
I live a couple of hundred miles south of you and will only start a few peppers in late December and will wait til January to start any tomatoes. My greenhouse is unheated and I usually wait til late March to set out my first plants into the garden.

[Fusion_power]

Thank you for posting the link Mischka.

Duck, Just call me the day before to be sure I will be home. My greenhouse is not fancy. I just run it to maximize the number of plants that can be cycled through in the time available.

B54, I ship seedlings to Florida and South Texas starting in Mid-January and going through Mid-March. Sometime about the end of February I will start my main round of seedlings with about 30,000 followed by another 30,000 3 or 4 weeks later. As for Marianna's Peace, I have a LONG history with it dating back to 2002/2003 when I produced about 30,000 seed from 3 plants. It is a very productive variety if given the right incentives (a few cubic yards of rabbit manure!) to grow.

This particular round is for very early sales and should give about 3,000 plants. For the year, I hope to go from about 45,000 plants in 2010 up to about 70,000 for 2011. There is a big reason for increasing the quantity, I will be supplying a local seed store with at least 30,000 plants this year.

DarJones

[Tormato]

Darrel,

I noticed Bhut Jolokia on your list.
What are your plans for that one?

[mdvpc]

NMSU Chile Pepper Institute has seed:

http://www.chilepepperinstitute.org/.../bhut_jolokia/

They have a minimum order of 14.00 I think.

[PaulF]

And just think D., we have not even had our first snow here yet; tomorrow I hear winter is coming. 60 degrees outside right now with -20 windchill predicted for Sunday. I need to move south for the winter.

[Bama mater]

Darrel, Will you be starting any Purple Haze this year?

[Fusion_power]

Bama, I have about 150 seed of Purple Haze so the answer is yes, I plan to have plants.

DarJones

[Bama mater]

Great, I'll need a six pack about mid April.

[carolyn137]

I'm not sure yet, but think Sandhill Preservation will have Bhut seed listed for 2011.

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Well, it's up to you from your end as I see it.

Glenn called me last night about some other issues and I mentioned The Buht one and his fingers are crossed as well.

My worst experience with a hot pepper was a pack with the variety called Elephant Ears that someone brought back from India for me. There was nothing that said it was a hot pepper ( the pack had info in English) so when it was large and green I picked one and took a huge bite out of it as I stood next to my row of hot peppers. I gagged, I sweated, the tears started flowing and I hightailed it back to the old farmhouse ASAP and grabbed some bread an milk.

I lived.

I used to list quite a few hot peppers in the SSE YEarbook but b'c the X pollination is so high as compared with tomatoes I gave up b'c I wasn't going to build isolation cages for them. But a few of them have done well. Several are at Southern Exposure, Joe's Round isoneof them althoughsomeone chqanged the name to Amazzo and I got them to change it back to what the name was when I sent it to Jeff McCormick, the former owner of SASE, and Joe's Long Cayenne at Johnny's and they added the Cayenne part.

Both are now in the SSE Public catalog as well.

And while the Joe's Round one is kind of unique as to fruit formation, neither of those are as HOT as that darn Elephant Ear one and Ihave grown habs,especially a nice one brought back from Cameroon for me by Heidi Iyok who was at that time a student of mine.

And yes, she's the same Heidi that I named that great paste one for that she also brought to me from Cameroon/

Bama J and Darrel, how far apart are you two in Alabama?