I JUST MADE A POST. A WOMAN SENT ME SEEDS IN trade for dragon fuit seeds. before I had time to ship them I had to fly back east for a sick and dying relative. im flying back next week and sending them out...its been 2 months...this was the message I posted: One person sent me a manilla bubble envelope containing seeds. 1 day after getting them I had to fly out of town for a sick and dying relative and have not been back since. I am comming home next week. I still have your address and will be giving you a ton of dragon fuit seeds. I am so sorry for the wait. I didnt have anytime. I had to leave that night. Rest assured You will be receiving your dragon fruit seeds shortly. im not into the business of conning people and am genuinely sorry. sincerely chris AKA sagelover

I would be interested in trading seeds with you. I have an heirloom tomato I bought on eBay that made softball size fruits, very meaty, flavorful and little juice. I have Japanese morning glories if you'd like those, and since you grow sunflower I have a sunflower that made about 8 foot tall stalks and seed heads about 6 inches in diameter. They were a hit with the pollinators. I am interested in your cherry and plum tomatoes. Joseph

In the same bed, terrene, are two regular looking pink ones. They are nice and tall but look like the regular E. purpurea. I'm going to ask neighbors if they would like to have them. They are growing right up next to my Sundown and I need to move them. I think you might be right about crossing the Big Sky plants with E. Paradoxa. You might get something really special and different. I have a friend who has offered to grow out some of the seeds from my tangerine orange seedling just to see what we get. I'm definitely taking her up on it. Since Paradoxa has been blooming about the same time as this seedling, maybe more crossing has taken place by the bees. You just never know. It's really awful that the voles ate your tall cross. It sounds like a really nice plant and I love the idea of the tall flowers. Linda

I tend to collect from all my flowering plants and they are a mishmosh collection, some bought before I started WSing, some grown myself from bought or trade seed. I've found that some seeds from hybrid plants (i.e.purple millet) grow just fine from collected seeds, while others are not true to the parent but sometimes nice anyway! I figure I'm not losing much (just some pro-mix, which I'll recycle for a pot or something anyway)by trying and I really enjoy collecting seed. My biggest frustration is that I will occastionally purchase a plant and get excited about the possibility of it flowering and setting seed (and growing more next year!) and it won't flower (some fancy plectranthus I bought this year) or it flowers but I can't find and harvest seed (Veronica "goodness grows"). The best thing about winter sowing is the very low "risk" - if even 20% of my jugs are duds, I haven't lost much. When I used indoor lights and had to baby everything inside it felt much more risky to try things I wasn't sure would work out. My advise...Get out there and collect some seed! I imagine that there is not a lot of time left in zone 6 as I am almost done in zone 7! Nancy