Comments regarding Reimer Seeds

the website is not easy to navigate plant listings are not correct . the botanical classifications for the peppers are incorrect for example; in one description the pepper is described as having hairy stems and leaves classified as capsicum annum clearly it is capsicum pubescens.(pubescens meaning little hairs) others c.annum for c. baccatum. Very little was paid on researching the plant classifications they should remove the above mentioned information to avoid confusion.

I ordered a variety of hot pepper seeds. Most of the seed varieties failed to germinate and the ones that did were not the same plant as the label indicated or what I ordered. I contacted reimer's about the zero germination rate and was told that the problem must be with my seed starting technique yet I've been growing peppers for 6 years and all the seeds I purchased from another source and using the same seed starting methods germinated just fine. I never bothered to contact them about the mis-labeling issue since it was months after purchasing the seeds before I actually found out. BEWARE OF THIS SEED SUPPLIER!!!!

"A wolf in sheeps clothing!" Nice website, nice selection of varieties! BUT the delivery charges are unreasonably high, i.e. 30 $ to ship half a kilo to Denmark. Furthermore the company did not inform me that I would need a so called "Phytosanitary certificate" to import tomato seeds, beet seeds and beans to Denmark. I think a company ought to know to know this and inform me, instead of just shipping me the seeds knowing that I probably would not get them anyway! When I wrote them back they where just rude to me, telling me to place an order once again and request a certificate which by the way costs 5 $ extra. This, plus having read about the company's bad germination rates, has made me confident that I will never do business with Reimer Seeds again... BEWARE OF THE WOLF!

I am also disappointed with the quality of chile pepper seeds I recently ordered from them this year. Out of 12 varieties, 5 failed to germinate for me despite my 15+ years of experience of starting plants from seed. As with the other two customers who had similar experiences, I was lectured on my poor seed starting practices and told that I was the first one to report such a problem. Shipping was an outrageous $6.50+ while the actual postage cost was 60 cents! I will never order from them again.

My experience with Reimer has been with chile pepper seeds. Their seed has EXTREMELY LOW GERMINATION rates and many of the packets I received had ZERO GERMINATION. This leads me to believe that they are not storing their seed properly or they are using very old seed.
When I brought this problem to their attention they replied stating that I was the first person to have logged a complaint regarding their pepper seed germination and that the problem I was having with their seed was a direct result of something I must be doing wrong when germinating. They went on the say that they run periodic germination tests that have not revealed poor results and that I should go to their website and follow their seed starting guidelines to a tee.
I replied mentioning that I had not had the same problem with other suppliers seed but just theirs. Reimer had total disregard for what I had to say and they never replied.
They did not ship the seeds with any protection therfore I ended up with crushed seeds in a few packets which they were kind enough to replace when I made them aware of it.
As for their shipping prices, I had two seperate seed orders which they charged a minimum of $5 shipping each. When when I recieved my plain white envelope, the postage was 46¢ on one and 63¢ on the other.

Bottom line; customer service was much to be desired, seed viability was ZERO to POOR at best, shipping practices and materials were inferior, and shipping charges were very much inflated.

In spite of the enormous selection of pepper varieties available, which is a positive,I must report a problem with seed germination. Of 16 varieties ordered, 6 had very poor or no germination. Since conditions were identical, I suspect that the seed may be old. I contacted them to let them know what had happened, but their reply was somewhat terse and they proceeded to lecture me about how to germinate pepper seed. I've been starting my own pepper plants from seed for over 25 years and I feel confident in my procedures. They said germination tests would be run and I would be informed of the results. As of now, no reply.

Order was delivered quickly and had everything as ordered.
An extra package of seeds were included in the shipment.
Nice web site.

Reimer Seeds are great! With over 1,000 peppers/chilis & 250 varieties of tomato, there's SO much choice. The seeds arrived really quickly - I'm from the UK and it took around a week PLUS they sent two free packets of pepper seeds. Germination rate is high so far (some of the hotter chilis are taking a bit longer) - I couldn't be more pleased! Can't wait till next year.....

Reimer sells small packets of seeds, like Pepper Gal. The selection is fair, and they are adding varieties all the time. I ordered on-line and received an e-mail the next morning confirming the order. They sent another e-mail when the order was completed. I received the order in about a week. The order was complete with a complimentary package of fennel seeds. Pending starting the seeds I am pleased so far.