Re: [CH] Open Fields 2004 & Dates for 2005
NECM (northeast.chileman@gmail.com)
Sat, 15 Jan 2005 15:19:19 -0500
Hey Jim,
What spring festivils are you talking about?
Jim wrote, Snip: Every year I have illusions (delusions) of selling
tons of plants at the spring festivals & do most of the plants for
that effort. Every year I also find I'm way too busy to work spring
festivals
We have a few members in IN at the other forum that would be
interested in knowing about them........
Matt, took a moment to look it up.........
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:59:12 -0500, Matt Evans <tmattevans@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't want to put words into anyone's mouth here (especially Jim's),
> but I actually asked him about the ornamentals last summer (I think
> this is the conversation you might be referring to, Paul). I said
> something to the effect of:
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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:29:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: "T. Matthew Evans" <tmattevans@yahoo.com>
Subject: [CH] Medusas, etc. (was: ATTENTION : EXOTIC PEPPERS)
Which reminds me....
I've been wanting to ask this for a while regarding Medusa chiles, but
Yatsafusa is another good example. I've noticed that you grow lots of Medusas
for OF every year and so I tried them last year. They were attractive, but I
thought they were otherwise pretty uninteresting. For eating, there are
several chiles of similar heat level that I would prefer to Medusa (cayenne
comes immediately to mind).
Do these chiles serve some commercial purpose? Does someone say, "Jim, I need
200 lbs. of Medusas this year"? I wouldn't ask you to give away any secrets,
but could you answer in a general sense?
How about home gardeners -- do you grow these chiles for a specific purpose
other than looks? How about Marbles?
Hope everyone's garden looks good....
Matt
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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:20:59 -0500
From: jim@wildpepper.com
Subject: Re: [CH] Medusas, etc. (was: ATTENTION : EXOTIC PEPPERS)
In answer to your question Matt...
I grow the Medusa's every year at the OF simply becuase they continue to
be listed as 'exccedingly rare' in the seed catalogs. They charge a
premium for that seed (as much as $0.10 per SEED) and this is my attempt
to make it more readily available to Joe Average. Gotta earn that
'sainthood' somehow :-P
I also grow them simply 'cause I think they're cool looking :-) ALL of
the chiles in the OF are simply there for the heck of it. If someone
needed them commercially, they'd be grown elsewhere. There are no trade
secrets in this business ;-)
Marbles are much the same story. Every year I have illusions
(delusions) of selling tons of plants at the spring festivals & do most
of the plants for that effort. Every year I also find I'm way too busy
to work spring festivals and end up planting the things in the fields so
they don't go to total waste.
Other than that, anything that anyone wants me to plant for the event, I
try to do.
- -Jim C
Mild to Wild(R)
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