Scotch Bonnets

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These pages were last updated on 26 March 2011.

IN JULY OF 2010, WHILE I WAS AWAY ON PERSONAL BUSINESS, THE AIR CONDITIONING FAILED AND TEMPERATURES IN MY SEED STORAGE AREA ROSE SO HIGH THAT MANY SEED VARIETIES MAY NOT BE VIABLE.

I have decided to continue the business. I will be offering fewer varieties for sale. I have never grown chiles to harvest and sell for seed and many of my reliable seed suppliers have merged or gone out of business. I'm afraid that some varieties are gone forever.

At the same time, competion has increased. Unfortunately, many of those now selling seeds are plant growers who are either clueless about cross-pollination or unscrupulous, or both.

I have disabled the ordering link but will leave much of the website up because some of the information may be of interest or value to some of you.

On 9 December 2010 I took 14 varieties to the New Mexicostate seed lab for germination testing. I expect to have results by 23 December 2010 and hope to begin limited sales. I plan to take another batch of 20 or so to the lab during the week of 3 January 2011 when they reopen after the holidays. If you are interested in a particular variety for 2011, please send an e-mail and we will try to include it in the next test batch.

First Test Batch (600 seeds each):

Achard C. Baccatum

Chimayo C. Annum

Chocolate Habanero C. Chinense

Fresno Supreme C. Annum

NuMex Barkers Hot C. Annum

NuMex Heritage 6-4 C. Annum - 84% germination (first result)

NuMex Heritage Big Jim C. Annum

NuMex RNaky C. Annum

NuMex Sandia C. Annum

Pili Pili (Bird Eye) C. Frutescens

Red Habanero (Organic) C. Chinense

Salmon C. Frutescens

Scotch Bonnet C. Chinense

Yellow Peter C. Annum

Dave Anderson

TLCC