Re: [CH] Seed Trading
H & S Wright (nzmh@xtra.co.nz)
Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:34:19 -0800
Don't know about your neck of the woods, but here in NZ it's illegal to
import seeds without certification that they're what they say they are,
and that they're clean and healthy.
God knows what you might get from India mixed in with your pepper seeds!
We got neat things like dock and ragwort 100 years ago because of
contaminated seed, and we don't need any more weeds!!
Hal
Oatmeal Jack wrote:
>
> I am probably going to dig up another long ago discussed thread so sorry if
> I do. I was wondering about the subject of trading seeds. I have no
> problem trading seeds within the USA, but isnt anyone concerned about
> trading seeds from overseas? I saw on here I think an Asian country
> willing to send their seeds over here for anyone who wants to send a
> SASE. An Indian friend of mine was going to send me some seeds straight
> from India because he thought my habs were nice but not hot and wanted to
> show some Americans what hot really was, I declined due to concerns about
> introducing some new foreign disease into my garden. On the other hand,
> the peppers that we now have in this country were introduced by immigrants
> that carried their seeds wherever they went.
>
> Am I being paranoid? Have the rest of you guys traded seeds to other
> countries without any disease problems?
>
> Jack
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