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FREE: Heirloom Pepper ✽ RARE HABANERO MIX ✽ 10 Seeds ✽

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The listing, Heirloom Pepper ✽ RARE HABANERO MIX ✽ 10 Seeds ✽ has ended.

This is a surprise mix of all Heirloom Habaneros. You won't know exactly which they are until they ripen. I don't have enough of these seeds to list them in separate auctions, so I will make sure you at least have one of every variety in your seed mix:
Chocolate Habanero
Mustard Habanero
Caribbean Red Habanero
Yellow Habanero

Hot Hot Hot! Enjoy at your own risk!
Days: 80-100 days
Size: Indeterminate
Season: Late-Season
Type: OP Heirloom

This Auction: You will be receiving 10 seeds from my garden. They will be sent First Class mail. I only take Paypal for International bidders, I do combine any additional auction seeds (within 5 days) for no additional shipping charge. I am happy to say that my seeds tested 99-100% germination within 2 weeks at a temp of 70°F in the spring of 2012. Excellent for beginners!

Propagation Method: From seed, sow seeds indoors 6 weeks before last spring frost. Sow 2-3 seeds per pot and thin to one plant per container. After four weeks, transplant seedlings to larger pots, and about 10 days before the last spring frost, begin hardening the plants to the outdoors. Transplant your plants to a sunny, highly composted location when soil temperatures are at least 55 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

Questions & Comments

so if you alternate rows of vegetables, that will keep them from cross pollinating? we have a small yard and will be doing raised bed and containers, I want to keep from cross pollinating the veggies, so I want to make sure I know how to do this, if you wouldn't mind, could you pass along a tip or two??thank you gail

Jan 31st, 2013 at 11:16:08 AM PST by

In all honesty, separating them by only one row just helps ever so slightly from crossing varieties. each fruit and veggie has different requirements, some as far away from each other as 2 miles. It is quite a science if you choose to research further. Tomatoes are one of the least likely to cross, unless you take potato leaf or currant tomatoes into consideration. Peppers can cross easier. It is best to keep sweet varieties far away from hot varieties, and recessive variegated strains away from all other peppers. It is recommended to actually be 30' to 500' away from each other variety for the purest seeds. That isn't possible for most growers, especially when you do not know what your neighbors might be growing on their property. Melons, cucumbers, and squash should all have a different "second" last latin names if growing nearby. The rules go on and on. I'm not sure if that helped you at all, or just raised more questions in your mind.

Jan 31st, 2013 at 12:51:32 PM PST by

How did you harvest this seed? How were the plants grown? Were the plants grown in proximity to each other?

Jan 29th, 2013 at 5:29:48 PM PST by

Oops. I replied in the wrong place- Most of these were actually grown in a 100' long commercial greenhouse as a hydroponic experiment. The habaneros were in 5-gallon pots in 5' rows with a row of cucumbers or tomatoes between each variety. I harvested the seeds from the actual peppers pictured, right after I took the pictures.

Jan 29th, 2013 at 5:51:54 PM PST by

Most of these were actually grown in a 100' long commercial greenhouse as a hydroponic experiment. The habaneros were in 5-gallon pots in 5' rows with a row of cucumbers or tomatoes between each variety. I harvested the seeds from the actual peppers pictured, right after I took the pictures.

Jan 29th, 2013 at 5:50:40 PM PST by

watching this one again...:-)

Jan 30th, 2013 at 10:20:53 AM PST by

Thank you. There are not too many of these pepper seeds left. We got lucky over the last few years to have a long enough gardening season here in Wisconsin to harvest the Habaneros. Here's hoping for another long season!

Jan 30th, 2013 at 10:40:28 AM PST by

Thank you for replying back, it helped for me to watch the names of the squash and know not what to plant with tomatoes luckily i have none of what you mentioned, most came from you, lol, on the peppers, what if I put them in a "secluded" area like a "hot house" type of building? sorry I keep picking your brain...you're a gem..thank you so much gail

Jan 31st, 2013 at 7:55:05 PM PST by

I would just recommend keeping each variety of pepper as far as you possibly can away from each other. I grow most of the same plants every year from seeds that I saved the season before, some for close to 10 years without any issues, except for variegated Fish peppers. I had to buy new original-strain seeds of those to start over. We grew some in a huge greenhouse as well, but insects always make it in large hot houses. If not, you'll need to hand pollinate with q-tips so you get fruit. I just purchased a bunch of new expensive specialty fruits and veggies this year so I will have to plant many of them in the butterfly and herb garden, and some in the front yard. I am running out of space! (:

Jan 31st, 2013 at 9:29:27 PM PST by

plant peppers as far alway as possible if they are hot, and you have non-hot vareties, they will cross. trust me, my banana peppers non-hot planted 100ft from the jalapenos which are hot, were hot...:-(

but i want this for my husband, he loves them hot, he says, :the hotter the better!"

Feb 1st, 2013 at 4:16:12 PM PST by

Yep. I am lucky that my 2 main gardens are actually 6 miles away from each other. LOL. My hot peppers are in Illinois and my sweet peppers are here in Wisconsin. I can also choose 2 different squash here, and 2 different squash there. It gives me some extra choices. I also have a girlfriend that might get an acre of land ready for me between the 2 gardens. That would be so awesome!

Feb 1st, 2013 at 4:44:16 PM PST by

wow, i know you had to have something big, and thats big...:-)

Feb 1st, 2013 at 6:59:37 PM PST by

I only own one property. The big gardens are at the community garden where we grow for fun and to donate to 2 food pantries. The owners donate their land for us to plant so they can be surrounded by fun gardening people. It works out best for all.

Feb 1st, 2013 at 7:20:04 PM PST by

oops...knew***

Feb 1st, 2013 at 7:00:07 PM PST by

Feb 1st, 2013 at 7:32:57 PM PST by

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