Just drooled over the www.ars-grin.gov/ list a little bit and will drool some more tomorrow, Goodnight Kind Regards Marc Winterburn ----- Original Message ----- From: The NorthEast ChileMan <thenortheastchileman@attbi.com> To: Marc Winterburn <marcw@iinet.net.au>; <chile-heads@globalgarden.com> Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 1:52 AM Subject: [CH] International Pepper Shipping/Was home made OF sauce > Hi Marc, > Was wondering what happened to the "Organic Chilli Grower"? > Your rules & regs start at this URL: > > http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/default.pasp > > and the basic requirements at this URL: > > http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/programs/app/quarantine/index.htm > > and clicking on "Import Requirements for Seed into Western Australia" under > Commercial requirements. Now I realize the seeds I sent you are not > commercial in nature but I can't find anything on private shipments. > That URL sends you to this one: > > http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/progserv/plants/weeds/weedsci.htm > > & I'll let you download the file & peruse it's contents. > > You wrote, Snip: > I am still after as many different types of Habs as possible also Ajis and > hell whatever anybody has ready I will throw in. I dont mind planting seeds > of the same types from different sources as genetic diversification is > important. So if anybody has any seeds at all that they wish to contribute > of any type of chillie they are most welcome. I lost all of my addresses in > fact all of my emails some 5 months ago so have had to start from scratch so > if anybody was expecting an email from me and didn't,t get it . Remind me, > > I'm reminding you, PepperBud! Go to this URL: > > http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_site_acc.pl?S9%20Capsicum%20ch > inense > > Have over 200 different varieties from this list in my possession at this > time & working on getting more. Want some? Will forward list of others to > your new E-mail addy (now that I have it). > > Yours in heat, > Paul > PS Shame The Fragrant Garden site went down, great site. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marc Winterburn" <marcw@iinet.net.au> > To: <chile-heads@globalgarden.com> > Sent: Saturday, 12 October, 2002 11:46 AM > Subject: Fw: [CH] home made OF sauce > > > > Hi all, I have sometimes successfully traded with the US , just about > > everything coming this way ( to Australia) makes it in, especially if you > > mark it "ATTN Australian Quarantine, Chillie (chile) seeds enclosed" > > Apparently its quite legal to send them here. Not so the other way though. > > To the US I have had a few get through but the majority haven,t made it. I > > even received a threatening letter from US Customs so have now desisted > with > > the illegal route. > > One interesting point I have noted is that from the odd place in the US I > > have had whole batches of seeds, sometimes 5-6 different varieties that > > failed to germinate at all so I am wondering if perhaps the Govt is > > surreptitiously irradiating the mail. Any comments on that . > > At the end of this Australian season I have quite a few people to pay back > > with seeds so I will be looking for one person to send a parcel of many > > seeds to, that they can then forward on to the appropriate recipients. > That > > way it is only one Phytosanitary certificate to buy and fill out, killing > > many birds with one stone. > > On the subject of New Zealand , I had one parcel go missing completely and > > another returned with a message that my seeds are not welcome there from > > NZ Authorities) so any suggestions on how to get them into NZ would be > > appreciated.(Steve) > > I would like to thank all of the kind CH's out there who have sent me > > seeds, I am now somewhere between 120 and 140 different varieties,(pending > > germination of some varieties) still well short of what I believe is the > > Australian record of 202 for one season in one garden.( > > 1999) If anyone else has done more let me know. > > > Note the new email address and new provider. > > Marc Winterburn > > P.O. Box 216 > > Gingin 6503 > > Western Australia > > >