Re: [CH] International Pepper Shipping/Was home made OF sauce

Marc Winterburn (marcw@iinet.net.au)
Sun, 13 Oct 2002 02:21:14 +0800

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
>
>
>