Re: tagetes ?erecta: follow-up
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- Subject: Re: tagetes ?erecta: follow-up
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:59:14 -0600
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>i forgot to tell you: around oaxaca it is known as cempazuchil
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Geoffrey Stanford <gstanf@swbell.net>
>To: seeds-list@eskimo.com <seeds-list@eskimo.com>
>Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 10:44 PM
>Subject: tagetes ?erecta
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>>do you know anyone who supplies this?
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>>on nov.1 every year the markets of oaxaca, mexico, are flooded with trucks
>>that are over- loaded with blooms of this marigold.
>>i have seen them in the fields; they are growing over 6ft (2m) high
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>>I suspect that a small patch is allowed to go to seed, which is harvested
>>around sept. the rest are disbudded continuously until about oct. 1, when
>>they are allowed to go into bloom, prolifically, for market as cut flowers
>>for their day-of-the-dead celebrations
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>>i would like 50 - 100 seeds. do you know a supplier, in usa or mexico or
>>anywhere else?
>>
>>geoff gstanf@swbell.net
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