Ordered about 20 varieties via JP but now I'm a bit worried as I have seen a few people mention he's a scammer? These are the pictures he sent me. After I'd ordered i asked for picture before posting. he didn't send anything for about 4 days until I asked again. he then quickly "packed" my order and sent these few pictures. Has anyone ordered from JP?
by stifisnafu
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He is well known for obviously photoshoping fruit to make them seem like they are something else and selling them. So, yeah, he’s a scammer. Whether everything he sells his fraudulent is a different story
[https://www.instagram.com/p/DJqE0F4pyQh/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==](https://www.instagram.com/p/DJqE0F4pyQh/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==)
check out the comments as well
Those all look like the same seeds lol, definitely wouldn’t trust it
I thought Jimmy Pickles closed his shop a few years back?
Either way I definitely ordered seeds from him on multiple occasions [3-4 years ago] and had no problems.
Have had no issues with seed germination and them being what they are supposed to be, powders I have no clue if they are cut with something else, they are good, and HOT. But can’t say for sure
I have placed a bunch of orders with him this year. He is either very quick or very slow with shipping. I have always gotten what I have ordered. He is a little all over the place. He has a huge selection. I think I ordered like 40 different varieties over this year. It’s my first grow so I can’t vouch for what peppers will actually grow. My recommendation is if you are getting seeds for next year and have time, then Jimmy should be a good place to order from. If you need stuff fast, shop somewhere else. His prices are also very cheap right now so the risk is low. I hs e like 20 bags of powders from him also. They are all good.
TL;DR: Scammer.
Fraud.
Bullsihter.
Liar.
Full story: Had a very frustrating experience ordering from him last Nov.
Seeds never arrived. He kept saying he re-mailed the order, with extra seeds (which I did not really need).
The 3 “re-shipped orders” NEVER arrived.
Good thing I also ordered from Texas Hot Peppers, White Hot Peppers, and a few from Etsy – Including from Red Dragon Seeds and Hillywood. All those vendors’ seeds arrived without fail.
I have bought from him twice (two years age, and this year) and so far he has delivered what I ordered. It does take about 2 weeks to get them but I had no issues with my first round so I ordered more this year
I bought seeds from him a few times and they were always what they were supposed to be. But that was probably 5 years ago, he could suck now.
Duffy should make sure his own house is in order. Considering all the germination issues he has had the past couple years
Sorry to hear this happened to you brother, those seeds all look exactly the same.
I’ve alwyas gotten my seeds from OhioPeppers and they’ve always grown true to see, WhiteHotPeppers is also a good vendor. I’m not sure if they ship to AUS or not tho.
I’d refund your order
Wait isn’t refining fire chiles the owner of another chile plant website? Could have sworn I just bought plants from them a couple days ago
I just grew “ultra violet” peppers. Very clearly cayenne
Those are 100% all the same exact kind of seeds.
I think that one commenter is right, this dude got like a giant sack of jalapeno seeds from somewhere and he’s just sprinkling them in ziplocks and writing whatever varieties you ordered on them.
He’s hoping that by the time you realize they’re all wrong you’ll forget where you got them, otherwise his long term plan is probably just to issue lots of “sorry, these things can happen!” apologies with a small discount towards your next order of old jalapeno seeds.
I say we replace being Pepper Joe’d with being Jimmy Pickled
So I ordered 26 different types of peppers from him….2 Weeks later then l they never arrived. I found the old dms and they were not available so I thought he blocked me .
A couple days later he popped up under a new account, I reached out to him and asked about my order, he started his old account was hacked.. he reshipped my order and I received it very fast..
Now for the seeds they are all the exact same, all the bags have chunks of placenta, which also looks the exact same..
So I started asking about him, his seeds have constant germination issues and they are constantly “miss labeled or issues from his suppliers” heard the rummers of him on drugs or gone crazy after a friend died…
A FB group posted pictures from one of his ads showing someone else’s watermark, and then they found the exact same picture on the other seed suppliers page.. the ad had been cropped and photoshopped to show a different color variation.
I’m out 26 bucks I paid friends and family pp… I’ll toss a.few in the ground next year and see what pops up
Yes that guy is a scam. Plants look like shit it’s almost laughable that he acts that he has high supply of piranha seeds which probably don’t even exist
Jimmy Pickles keeps stealing my lines