Request not to share PAPPY KERNS heart seeds

kerns125 · January 16, 2017

Hi all --

I just had a baby 6 weeks ago and am moving in 2 weeks, so I have been super busy and totally out of the loop for months -- hope everyone is well!

I am posting to ask that no one save and distribute Pappy Kerns seeds they may have -- I tried to directly message everyone who requested seeds from me directly, but I know they were given out in the 2015 MMMM and may have also been passed out outside the swap or in the 2016 swap, so please also let anyone know to whom you may have passed along seeds:

This past summer (2016) I grew out several plants of Pappy Kerns from my own stash, and they tasted NOTHING like the one I was so excited about in 2015 (and from which I sent seeds to everyone). So I am confused about what happened - whether it was growing conditions or a cross or what. The plants I grew out last year I called "Not Pappy Kerns" since they tasted totally boring, and I am not sending any more seeds out (nor am I listing again in Seedsavers Exchange) until I grow out a few more generations and (hopefully) get back the original strain with the knock-your-socks-off flavor that I was so enamored with in 2015, and ensure that the strain is stable. I was so embarassed to have sent out seeds after growing it out only once, and then discovering that my own F1 generation tasted bland - not worthy of the name Pappy Kerns!

***I am therefore asking everyone to please also avoid saving and giving seeds away to anyone else until I can make sure the strain tastes like the original that I had.***

Thanks, and keep fingers crossed that it hasn't been lost forever....

Jen

January 16, 2017	#1
kerns125 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: 22301 Posts: 92	Request not to share PAPPY KERNS heart seeds Hi all -- I just had a baby 6 weeks ago and am moving in 2 weeks, so I have been super busy and totally out of the loop for months -- hope everyone is well! I am posting to ask that no one save and distribute Pappy Kerns seeds they may have -- I tried to directly message everyone who requested seeds from me directly, but I know they were given out in the 2015 MMMM and may have also been passed out outside the swap or in the 2016 swap, so please also let anyone know to whom you may have passed along seeds: This past summer (2016) I grew out several plants of Pappy Kerns from my own stash, and they tasted NOTHING like the one I was so excited about in 2015 (and from which I sent seeds to everyone). So I am confused about what happened - whether it was growing conditions or a cross or what. The plants I grew out last year I called "Not Pappy Kerns" since they tasted totally boring, and I am not sending any more seeds out (nor am I listing again in Seedsavers Exchange) until I grow out a few more generations and (hopefully) get back the original strain with the knock-your-socks-off flavor that I was so enamored with in 2015, and ensure that the strain is stable. I was so embarassed to have sent out seeds after growing it out only once, and then discovering that my own F1 generation tasted bland - not worthy of the name Pappy Kerns! *I am therefore asking everyone to please also avoid saving and giving seeds away to anyone else until I can make sure the strain tastes like the original that I had.* Thanks, and keep fingers crossed that it hasn't been lost forever.... Jen