Re: [CH] The seed debate

David Watts (davew63@hotmail.com)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 21:37:27 GMT 

Dave,

     Man, how annoying it must be to have to field this sort of garbage from 
someone who has never traded with you.  The seeds you sent me look great.  I 
have some of your charlestons sprouting in my phototron (all 6 sprouted) for 
an indoor growing experiment.  I'd order some more If my lady wouldn't hang 
me, gotta chill for awhile.  Between you and Jim, I am fully chile stocked!

Sincerely
--Dave Watts



>From: "Dave Anderson" <Chilehead@tough-love.com>
>Reply-To: "Dave Anderson" <Chilehead@tough-love.com>
>To: Chile-heads@globalgarden.com
>Subject: [CH] The seed debate
>Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 13:45:51 -0700
>
>I've been sitting on this for a couple of days, but decided to respond
>to all of you.
>
>Roy Stiel sent me a copy of the dreaded e-mail which was from
>another non-customer named Byron Bromley who was just
>repeating his Totally Tomatoes tirade.
>
>Roy also sent me a list of questions:
>
>"Does this guy sound familiar? If not, I can't imagine why he'd say
>this can you?"
>
>Byron has sent out more  mis-information than the entire combined
>Chile-heads group. He sent out some more the other day when he
>mentioned certified disease free seed from Stokes. No seed
>company makes that guarantee.
>
>"Is this true? Do you buy the same defective seeds and sell them
>to unsuspecting customers?"
>
>Not to my knowledge, but I've never been able to find out which
>"diseased seed" varieties Byron purchased, nor has he been able
>to document the "diseases".
>
>Totally Tomatoes is owned by Horticultural Services and Products.
>They also own Vermont Bean Seed, R. H.Shumway and Jane
>Seymore seed companies. Of the approximately 50 Varieties of
>seed which I sell, 8 were purchased from HPS. Three hybrids are
>actually produced by Seminis Vegetable, but I'm not large enough
>to purchase seeds from Seminis. I hope to be someday.I have no
>idea if HPS actually grows any plants for seed. Most seed retailers
>do not.
>
>"And are the handful of guys on the list backing you up really your
>employees, or family members or you."
>
>  My only employee is my step-daughter and she doesn't have a
>computer. Some are satisfied customers and I've never met any of
>them face to face.
>
>Seems like I see the link to your company every where I look.
>
>That's probably because I've been selling Chile seeds on the
>internet longer than most. Interestingly, I began  with one seed
>variety, Habanero, which I purchased from Stokes Seeds. The
>second variety which I added was Charleston Cayenne from HPS.
>Charleston is in my best selling seed collection and I've never had
>a complaint about it.
>
>
>Dave Anderson
>Tough Love Chile Co.
>http://www.Tough-Love.com
>Chilehead@Tough-Love.com
>

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