18°00'33.64" N 76°46'50.73" W - Caribbean Seed Exchange!

[SvenLittkowski 11]

Greetings from the warm, ever-sunny and beautiful, tropical Caribbean where all the pretty curvy girls of this planet are and where plenty hot chilies are, too!

 

I am offering a permanent seed exchange between the Caribbean and Europe. I am in need of plant seeds, and in return I also offer seeds of all the tropical and exotic plants we got here, too - Capsicums included!

 

I need:

CAPSICUM

- Diamond White (and all other white and whitish chili varieties)

- Sweet Banana

- Bhut Jolokia (and "family")

- Bangalore Torpedo

- Tepin

- Sweet Cherry

- Halblanger Vulkan

- Purple Tiger

- Interesting Hybrids

- Bishops Crown

- Bresse Paprika

- Brazilian Starfish

- Chinese Five Colors

- NuMex Big Jim

- Purple Marconi

- Cayenne

- Royal Black

- Roccoto Canaria

- Vietnamese

- Cascabel

- Serrano

- Black Pearl

- Aji Dulce Long

- Peru Scarlet Lantern

- Capsicum lanceolatum

- Masquerade

- Sweet and Low Heat varieties, decorative

- Black Hungarian

NON-CAPSICUM

- Rucola (Arugola)

- Drosera and Venus fly trap (each all types)

- Lithops (all types)

- Honey Mesquite tree

- Mycelium of Edible Mushrooms

- Blue Sausage Bean tree

- Kaki (Sharon, Persimon)

- Nettle

- Indian Mesh (Net) Cucumber

- Australian fruits and vegetables, endemic

 

And I offer seeds of:

CAPSICUM (depending on availability)

- Jamaican Hot Scotch Bonnet: Green, Lime, Yellow, Peach, Orange, Red, Chocolate (choc.: hottestl) - smoky, raw: touch of peach

- Habanero: Green, Lime, Yellow, Orange, Red (like JHSB a smoky flavor base)

- Jamaican Bird Pepper (like JHSB an endemic species)

NON-CAPSICUM (depending on availability)

- Cuban Cigar Tobacco

- Otaheite fruit (originally from Tahiti) (*)

- Guinep fruit (*)

- Purple Starapple fruit

- Nesbery fruit

- Callaloo (Amaranthus viridis)

- Sorrel (Hibiscus sabdariffa)

- various Palm variants (*)

- Orchid Tree

- Poor Man's Orchid

- Poincetta varieties: Gold, Red

 

NOTE: items marked with a (*) are having larger seeds, therefore I can send them to you only with a small air mail parcel, not by regular air mail letter. I pay the air mail letter to you by myself, but for items marked with a (*) I request a mail participation of 12 Euro. To make more sense of such a 12 Euro parcel, you can put more than one type of seeds into such a parcel - same price (12 Euro for all seed types included in that one parcel). I think it's worth.

 

Here's much more I can send to you, if you want to get Jamaican things. Most of these items are too big for a regular air mail letter, so I added prices to each item where fees apply (not all of them, some are free of cost).

 

 

01 Below: Of course. Jamaican chilies!!! And they come in all colors and sizes! Most distributed are Scotch Bonnet and Habanero and their hybrids (each in all colors), but deep in the rainforests between the ever-cold peaks of the Blue Mountains are also the unknown endemic-jamaican chili types. Jamaican Bird Chili - a small, elongated-oval medium-hot chili, coming in green, yellow and red varieties. But not shown on this photo.

€ 0,50 / 8-10 seeds of each type and all types together (one final price)

 

02 Below: three jamaican Jamaican Hot Scotch Bonnet (JHSB), and at the upper right one of the similar-tasting and similar smoky Habanero chilies. Raw they even have a touch of apricot or peach, that's why we Caribes use the JHSB often raw in hot, fruity-spicy salads or seasonings.

€ 0,50 / 8-10 seeds of each type and all types together (one final price)

 

03 Below: Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, one of the two Jamaican types grown here in Jamaica. Available in many sizes.

€ 11,00 / 1kg (smaller sizes available, please state)

 

04 Below: Jamaica produces another drink by the name "Milo". Made of cereals and of Jamaican Chocolate. Mix with milk. Tastes quite nice! Different sizes.

€ 4,00 / 500g Package

spice sauces in all the variations available here. Coming in small bottles. Refueling into light plastic containers for mail sending is an option.

€ 1,50 / Bottle

 

06 Below: Jamaica is famous for its Creolian, spicy cooking. One of the internationally most known preparations for meat is JERK. Jerk is available as seasoning, and as powder. Unites smoke with chilies ad much more...

€ 1,50 / Bag

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07 Below: Spices. Jamaica produces a nice number of own spices, not existing anywhere else.

€ 4,00 / Spice Bomb

 

08 Below: More spices.

€ 1,50 / Spice Bag

 

09 Below: Jamaican ready-to-use soups and sauces. This one, comes with the flavor of real Jamaican goats...

€ 2,80 / Bag

 

10 Below: And more spices again.

Zwischen € 1,50 and 3,00 / Container

 

11 Below: The Jamaicans like Irish Moss. This algae makes a delicious drink, but is source for many other products, too. The algae also thickens drinks, cocktails and soups and sauces. Delicious! And there is the Jamaican Chocolate (as balls, still without sugar, used for Jamaican chocolate tea and for the international chocolate and praline production), and there is the Jamaican Pimento (seeds) which preserves drinks for a good time, and serves also as universal spice, and much, much more.

Between € 1,50 and 2,50 / Package

 

12 Below: Jamaica produces a number of own sweets, with which Italian men can treat their ladies in a much better way than with Italian sweets, ha ha ha: coconut cake (delicious, sweet, but not really a cake), cookies, baked things, and so on.

Zwischen € 1,50 and 3,50 / Package

 

13 Below: Jamaica produces not yet potato chips, but because Jamaicans love hot chilies, special Capsicum-spiced potato chips are imported from the USA. Delicious! And hooooootttttttt......

€ 1,00 / Package

 

14 Below: Instead Jamaica produces not only regular bananas (yes, we are a true "banana republic"), but also the Green Banana (Plantain). Those are not really sweet, but are used like regular vegetables in cooking or frying. Frying? Yes, here in Jamaica they make out of thinly sliced fried or baked Plantain slices the famouse, slightly salted BANANA CHIPS! Very delicious!

€ 1,00 / Package

 

15 Below: Spice Bun, Easter Bun, whatever you call them, such a bun is Jamaica's successful crossbreed (hybrid) between bread and cake! Tastes good. Served with a soft cheese on top. I eat this quite often.

€ 2,20 / Package

 

16 Below: Jamaicans sweet baked items. Colorful mini cakes, and much more.

€ 2,00 / Package

 

17 Below: Jamaican palm seeds, partially already with botanical names.

€ 11,00 / one-time travel expense to that location during right season (one price for all available palm seeds and independent of amount)

 

18 Below: Jamaican palm seeds, partially already with botanical names.

€ 11,00 / one-time travel expense to that location during right season (one price for all available palm seeds and independent of amount)

 

19 Below: Jamaican palm seeds, partially already with botanical names.

€ 11,00 / one-time travel expense to that location during right season (one price for all available palm seeds and independent of amount)

 

20 Below: Jamaican palm seeds, partially already with botanical names.

€ 11,00 / one-time travel expense to that location during right season (one price for all available palm seeds and independent of amount)

 

21 Below: Jamaican palm seeds, partially already with botanical names.

€ 11,00 / one-time travel expense to that location during right season (one price for all available palm seeds and independent of amount)

 

22 Below: Jamaican palm seeds, partially already with botanical names.

€ 11,00 / one-time travel expense to that location during right season (one price for all available palm seeds and independent of amount)

 

23 Below: Jamaican palm seeds, partially already with botanical names.

€ 11,00 / one-time travel expense to that location during right season (one price for all available palm seeds and independent of amount)

 

24 Below: Jamaican palm seeds, partially already with botanical names.

€ 11,00 / one-time travel expense to that location during right season (one price for all available palm seeds and independent of amount)

 

25 Below: Jamaican palm seeds, partially already with botanical names.

€ 11,00 / one-time travel expense to that location during right season (one price for all available palm seeds and independent of amount)

 

26 Below: Jamaican healing herbs, seeds available.

Zwischen € 1,50 and 4,00 / type and € 2.00 one-time travel expenses to Half-Way-Tree, always available (transport fee for al available types and independent of amount)

 

27 Below: Ackee, jamaican national fruit, seeds available when saison.

FREE

 

28 Below: Ackee, Jamaican Nationalfrucht, seeds available if saison (please ignore the joke text inside the image, was a joke for someone, ha ha ha). Requires boiling prior digestion. Google for recipe "Ackee and Saltfish".

FREE

 

29 Below: Starapple, seeds available if saison. Delicious. Interessanting consistency inside, like cake dough somehow, but a great fruity flavor.

FREE

 

30 Below: Jamaican Red Stripe Beer, famous worldwide. Light tropical beer.

€ 2,00 / Bottle

 

31 Below: Jamaican Balanophoracea, highly specialized, unusual, extremely rare. Seeds. "The plant which didn't want to be a plant". Lives more like a mushroom. Google for details. I know one of the few locations here in Jamaica, deep inside the rainforest.

FREE (seeds) but € 30,00 one-time travel expenses into the rainforest, no guarantee that seeds are available (hit-and-try) (transport fee for all available types and independent of amount)

 

32 Below: Jamaican Bauhinia (Orchid Tree), seeds if season.

FREE

 

33 Below: Jamaican Caesalpinia Pulcherrima Flava (Royal Poinciana), seeds if season.

FREE

 

34 Below: Jamaican Dracaena Terminalis (Cordyline Fruticosa), seeds if season.

FREE

 

35 Below: Jamaican Lantana camara, seeds if season. Comes in 1001 different color combination (each up to 2 different colors) of: white, yellow, pink, orange, red, brown, purple, baby blue, medium blue, maybe even more colors. Leaves have an aromatic flavor but some say plant is not for eating.

FREE

 

36 Below: Pink Grass, seeds if season.

FREE

 

37 Below: Jamaican Russelia equisetiformis (Coral Plant), seeds if season.

FREE

 

38 Below: Tradescantia pallida, seeds if season. They say not easy to grow from the seeds of the berries, therefore no guaranty of success.

FREE

 

39 Below: Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar Periwinkle), seeds maybe available. Someone please tell me where the seedsare with this species.

FREE

 

40 Below: Datura metel (Angel's Trumpet), seeds if season. Huge beautiful color-intensie double blossoms (inside each other), heavy, rich, nice fragrance, slightly thorned lower leave sides.

FREE

 

41 Below: Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnerii, seeds available. Interesting population: tiny baby plants start growing on the outside of the leaves, fall then down and start rooting! Decorative, too. Olive green and bamboo green tiger-striped, oder all into the black-purple color nuance, or in young age leave green and lime green.

FREE

 

42 Below: Nicotiana (Tobacco), seeds available. Night photo. Cuban tobacco. Make yourself a fat Cuban cigar. OOr use the leaves as organic, natural insecticide or as fragrance for self-made soaps or male parfumes or cremes.

FREE

 

43 Below: Psidium guajava (Guava), seeds available

FREE

 

44 Below: Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) middle right in the photo, seeds available

€ 1,00 / 10 Samen

 

45 Below: from top to botton and each from left to right:

Jamaican Country Orange, seeds available

Okra (and below then cucumbers), okra seeds available

(Jamaican salt and) Papaya, seeds if season

(tomatoes, scallion and carrots)

Scotch Bonnets and Habaneros (and below them coconuts), seeds available (see first photos at the top)

Jamaican bean types (and corn), seeds available

(Jamaican Yam and wieder Kokosnuesse)

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Jamaican Country Orange: € 0,50 / Frucht (2 bis 5 Samen)

Okra: € 1,00 / 10 Samen

Papaya: € 0,70 / at least 30 Samen

Jamaican bean types: € 1,20 / at least 30 seeds in a bag

 

46 Below: cocoa beans in the middle, on top beside it Jamaican Country Orange and below Mungo boeans, seeds available

Cocoa: € 2,00 / amount not sure yet (depends on my upcoming deal with a chocolate farmer)

Mungobohnen: € 1,00 / 15 Samen

 

47 Again types of the Habaneros and Scotch Bonnets, a hybrid, Guinep (Melicoccus bijugatus) and finally a Cho Cho (Sechium edule). seeds available

Cho Cho: € 1,70 / fruit (contains 1 flat, waxy seed inside fruit remainders)

Ginnep: € 1,00 / bunch (at least 10 seeds, or more)

 

48 Below: Jamaican plays (Jamaicans theater). All accross Jamaica there are these small theater stages, where the typical Jamaican theater plays are performed. Many people simply don't know, that Jamaica has a very own, developed theater culture of its own face. Based on the Jamaican mentality, laughing is permitted and even desired very often here during the performances. Here they make caricatures of the daily life, the politicians, government authorities, and of themselves! Language: English and Jamaican Patois (localer dialect). Many different plays are available.

€ 12,00 / DVD (theater play)

 

49 Below: Jamaican Pimento (Pimenta dioica) wood chips or seeds. Great for smoking of meat, fish and others. If you want to plant (germinate) the seeds, you can do so only with help of birds: Pimento seeds have to be digested by the bird (parrot or other bigger birds), and when they come out the other side then they can be planted. The acids inside the bird's digestion system and their excrements are the only (even today) what makes these seeds able to germinate. Erhaeltlich.

Chips: please ask for pricing

Seeds: € 1,50 / 25 seeds

 

50 IF seeds become available to me: Jamaican Sugar Cane (seeds).

 

51 IF seeds become available to me: Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee beans (seeds).

[SvenLittkowski 11]

I try to give the missing image for #29:

 

29 Below: Starapple, seeds available if saison. Delicious. Interessanting consistency inside, like cake dough somehow, but a great fruity flavor.

FREE

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[Lonewolf 18,092]

Bunch of colours here!

 

I can send you some Capsicum seeds in your list:

- Bhut Jolokia (and "family") --> Bih Jolokia #1 Assam

- Tepin --> Chiltepin

- Bishops Crown

- Rocoto Canario

- Black Pearl

- Masquerade

 

I'm interested in Scotch Bonnet varieties, especially the flat yellow one.

 

Please, send me your address in a private message

[grispa72 1,198]

I think I'll go to Jamaica...thousend of wonderful color...

 

Paolo

[mayta 390]

I guess, you just live on a different planet than mine ...

[SvenLittkowski 11]

Nooo, not another world. Just a place on this one, not even more than 720 flight MINUTES away...

And yes, I usually assist my visitors (plenty of them, from other chili forums and orchid forums) to get here low-cost (but good and save) accomodations, and organize real discovery expeditions for them.

 

Keep on following my other "Tropical Farm" thread (2013 season), I got thousands of photos more to add, and also hundreds of video clips!

 

This thread is for you to decide what to order or exchange from me.

[nessuno2006 158]

I have a smal domestic cultivation of peppers .

I can send (in your wishlist ):

-habanero white

-habanero white bullet

-fuoco nero-black fire -(decorative low heat variety, small fruit red,then black ,when ready, small black foliage-photo available)

-numex twilght

-big jim

( some others already offered by lonewolf)

and there are 2-3 varieties in your list, that could be interesting for me (my space is limited)

hope there will not be problems with italian customs.

Let me know via MP , if you are interested,how we can possibly arrange the exchange.

[nessuno2006 158]

I have noticed from your other posts , your interest for other unusual colored ( in my case black ) varieties.

the fruit in the photo was called "barbakoa".

[SvenLittkowski 11]

NesUno2006: yes, you are right. I like especially black chilies, and white chilies.

 

EVERYONE: I FINALLY GOT NOW THE SEEDS OF THE ENDEMIC JAMAICAN BIRD PEPPER! YELLOW AND RED.

I WILL START TO SEND OFF THE LETTERS AS OF TODAY.

[SvenLittkowski 11]

Oooookay - all letters are now on their way to you all! I brought them on their way last Monday.

 

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http://www.SvenLittkowski.name/Image.php5?What=v/Lib/Projects/Jamaican%20Products/Photo0000

Look out!

[SvenLittkowski 11]

- Could'nt edit my new posting, so here again the URL. -

 

Missing photo is now uploaded.

http://www.svenlittkowski.name/Image.php5?What=v/Lib/Projects/Jamaican Products/Photo0000.jpg&Width=800&FXs=B-00C+00A+00+00+00S+00

 

Look out!

[SvenLittkowski 11]

[Lonewolf 18,092]

Interesting mail from Jamaica

 

 

Many chile peppers seeds ...

 

 

... and "strange" things too

 

 

 

Thanks Sven!

[nessuno2006 158]

same tere to me..

with peppers'seeds..and same "strange things"..

xanthosoma sagittifolium seeds already planted..

will see..

at the same time many thks to sven

vielen danke

to the newcomer pepperfriend from jamaica

[SvenLittkowski 11]

It is always my pleasure to make other people glad. I am happy my letters have arrived.

 

Callaloo grows easily, and fast. It will give you soon many delicious leaves, use them like a spicier type of spinach. Also, let the plants produce seeds, so you have always plenty of this good delicious present of Mother Nature. When preparing the plant for cooking, remove the strong strings along the stems, all other parts can be steamed and eaten. Enjoy!

 

You could create some Growing Threads for the different plants. I would love to see the progress.

[SvenLittkowski 11]

I got also some nice letters, in the meantime. Thanks a lot. Still needed: Capers (seeds).

 

Did everybody of you receive my letters? Any first roots from those already put into soil?

[zionick 7]

hi sir if you need i've some capers seeds and many other type of seeds

if you're interested let me know

greetings

[SvenLittkowski 11]

Sure, of course, and yes! I am interested. PM me or type in this thread, please, which seeds you can offer. I'll respond.

[Stefania 4,329]

Hi Sven,

 

today one of the seeds you sent to Lonewolf was born ... it is Jamaican Sorrel (?)

 

 

[SvenLittkowski 11]

Simply beautiful. Isn't it?

 

Yes, should be Sorrel (Hibiscus sabdariffa). The big, fleshy blossoms make a great, delicious juice! Take only the ring of fleshy, red blossom leaves around the inner blossom (keep that one to still produce seeds), and put these red leaves in a container. Also add brown cane sugar (substitute with regular white sugar or sweetener), and grated or chopped or sliced ginger to them. Pour boiling water of this all, and keep - closed - at a warm place for at least one day and one night, up to three or even four days (the flavor will develop). Enjoy this Caribbean juice "on the rocks" (on ice).

[SvenLittkowski 11]

Are there any new photos and updates?

[SvenLittkowski 11]

Hi again! Are there any new photos? I would love to see updates on the plants! :-)

 

 

Hey, I started a new seed exchange! It is here:

https://www.pepperfriends.com/forum/topic/10636-jamaica-seeds-exchange/

[Lonewolf 18,092]

Sorrel

 

 

Buds of Sorrel (no flowers yet)

 

 

Xanthosoma sagittifolium (?!)

Looking at photos online, I think it's not the sowed plant, but a simple weed.

It was born a long time after sowing, so may be other seeds contaminated the pot soil.

 

 

Do you know if this plants are frost resistant?

 

I'll sow your chile peppers seeds in the 2014 season (starting next January)

[SvenLittkowski 11]

Hi!

 

Both plants are what they were supposed to be.

 

The sorrel is soon ready to be used for drinks - you don't wait un til the blossoms open. Before they open, you remove ONLY the outer ring of thick red blossom leaves but keep the inner blossom where it is to make it still producing seeds. Or you cut the entire thing but still use only the red outer leaves for the drink.

 

I was wrong with the Latin (botanical) name of the Callaloo. The plant is right, but the name should be different. i used a wrong name, because there are several "Callaloos" as names for different plants. The correct name for this Callaloo is "Amaranthus viridis". And you could start to harvest here, too. Or wait for the seeds to get many more plants for bigger harvests.

 

I don't think, Amarathus viridis ever met frost before, so I don't think it can survive. Use it like an annual.

 

When harvesting, take the leaves and if you like, even the stem. Before cutting you have to remove the strong strings on the sides of the stem - simply tear them apart. Then chop everything into small pieces, and steam it in a pot, at the bottom a little bit of salt, some onion pieces in between and maybe some small ham pieces. use it for other dishes like European spinach. It is spicier.

[Lonewolf 18,092]

Thanks!