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gfugal:
Well  High Desert i think you convinced me to try it. I figure I don't have much to loose since the health food store one's aren't that expensive. If It doesn't work like it didn't with DC, then I'll get the stuff willie suggested. Although I went to that site and couldn't find any way to buy them.

willie:
email or call. let us know what you learn if you chat them up.
Hans & Sara von Tresckow  in Fond du Lac (the link at the bottom of the page) have good service. as I recall, the planting works best if the seeds aren't spread out too much. don't know if the fiber variety seed makes a better fiber, just maybe taller plants?

DC:
I would imagine that what you get at a health food store is whatever they can get cheap. They aren't concerned with the length of fiber so one day you might get tall plants and the next short ones. The problem is that it takes a year to find out. I would seek out the tall varieties even if it cost 3 or 4 times as much just to make sure.

High-Desert:
I've tried multiple times and by planting them dense, they will shoot for the sun and I've never had them too short to make fiber, and it's extremely strong. Maybe even try partial shade. You can try several times during the year as it only takes about 2 months from planting to bloom. You can also let some go to seed, and select only the tallest plants to pull seeds from and plant those if you want to see if you can get taller plants.

gfugal:
So the flaxforsale site lists their price of flax seed as "Flax seed, Marilyn variety, fiber flax: $10 per pound, $6 half pound, $3.50 quarter pound." Then say later "shipping is extra and typically adds 15 to 30 percent to the total amount. Small items like stricks, tow and seed are shipped via USPS Priority or First Class." To order you just email them at BroJoh@Yahoo.com or call 570-425-2548.

I'm guessing a quarter pound is plenty, but priority or first class mail probably won't be less than a couple of dollars so it might be better to get a half pound or full pound to make it worth the shipping. So I'm guessing that I could get some from them for $9-$14? Vs $2-$3 from a store. It's definitely more expensive but maybe I'll do both and do a side by side comparison.

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