[Sca-cooks] Planting Period Spices from Seed

[Angie Malone]

It depends on whether they have 'improved' the seeds and now they are hybrids.

A little off topic from this, I bought some natural hulless popcorn that
they specifically say on the package, "unauthorized seed multiplication is
prohibited."  Actually there was some other natural, organic product that
said the same thing.  So you know that if you plant the seeds and they
germinate you will get the same product.

I know you are all wondering if I am planting some of the popcorn, you bet.
 It made terrible popcorn, I think the popcorn was old in the store. It was
expensive so I don't think people were buying it.

Also I doubt they were treated with anything or people probably wouldn't be
able to eat it.

	Angeline

At 11:29 AM 5/10/01 -0700, you wrote:
>In an earlier missive, I had suggested, from a comment
>by Lord Ras regarding the planting of 'store bought'
>spices, that perhaps it would be possible to propogate
>cubebs and long pepper through the seed pods sold by
>Spice Merchants.
>
>I'm now curious to know if this is possible, and at
>the crux of this question is finding out whether or
>not these spices (cubebs, long pepper, grains of
>paradise, galingale, etc) have been treated with any
>kind of germination-prohibiting chemicals, to prevent
>unauthorized propogation.  I know this is done in our
>age with a wide variety of crops intended for export,
>potatoes in particular.
>
>Does anyone have any knowledge regarding this kind of
>treatment by their Spice Merchants?  It seems that, if
>the spice pods are viable, and untreated, then they
>should come true from a planting of the seeds.
>
>Balthazar of Blackmoor
>
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