My request is a bit unusual, and I want to stay within forum and other rules. I'm new to Houzz though I was on gardenweb for eons years ago. Please bear with all the text and feel welcome to make suggestions or offerings to me for consideration.

Backstory: I'm setting up some experimenting with LED-light seed starting, and maybe some mason-jar 'still' hydro & acqua-ponics, and new christmas toys I got for aeroponic stuff. I have a backyard standing garden with no plans this year but a few things, as I'm restarting after a few years fallow. I have plenty of open space to experiment with once I get seedlings.

Looking for: I'd like to try a few seeds of multiple things I wouldn't be able to easily buy locally. By this I just mean things "far less common" than most stuff in popular seed catalogs.

By "a few" I mean "half a dozen seeds" if you expect them to be viable. But if you only have 2 and it's something cool, I'll try 'em!

By "multiple things" I mean, I'd like a variety of things; so give me however many things you have that seem a fair trade to you, for whatever seed type/quantity you're asking in return. You decide what's reasonable, I'm sure it's fine. If your seed request has a specific sub-type or vendor let me know.

Note - I'm not a pro anything, though I do have tiny hydroponic, aeroponic, etc. setups -- this is nothing official or scientific, just me seeing how new toys work. Note that part of my experimentation is with a cloner though, so if you send me something that cannot legally be repropagated, please just let me know, so I can separate those from the rest. Note that nothing I grow would ever be sold anyway, not even as produce let alone plants.

Varieties I like: I'm a chili pepper fanatic. NOT super-hot kinds, but the kind you can eat in stuff -- very hot is ok (I like cayenne and serrano for example), just not south-american-shamanic-frying level. :-) So I thought maybe chili seeds would be good to ask for.

But: if you have something else (nothing gluten/glutin ok, no peas, and nothing huge (e.g. no sprawling gourds ok), no bush/trees, nothing invasive in 40 states...) that is rather 'less common' I'd be happy to consider it -- anything that could be stuck in a typical 24" high garden in zone 6 when it hits seedlng level is probably ok, the novelty factor is more important to me than the chili factor.

I don't really have any requirements as far as hybrid/heirloom/etc. go but the more you can tell me about the seed the better, since it doesn't help to get lots of experimental data and have no idea what the plant is. :-) My knowledge of seeds extends to reading catalogs/packages so if I have to scratch it and do the hula to make it germinate please tell me.

Offering: I'm willing to buy a small amount of pretty much any seed someone wants that is reasonable and send in fair trade for "a few" seeds of "several different things" -- not all of them need to be uncommon mind you, esp if they are say, garlic or chili. :-)

I'd like to support people who actually grow out less common stuff at their own expense, and I know a few trades are sometimes all they get for it. And I suspect many people often have a few extra of a variety of things anyway. And this way I can buy a few things for several other people, and get a teensy sample of many different seeds, rather than having to buy a whole packet of a ton of diff things to try -- 99% of which I wouldn't use.

Please make an offer, public or private, I'm hoping to collect, from however many people this takes me, at least a few dozen different things. I appreciate any consideration.

Thanks!!

PJ in the Ozarks

Edited to add: I assume this is only about seeds, but if these trades extend to other things (I dunno what other things - rhizomes? fungi? rooted cuttings?) that'd probably be fine too. It's the variety that matters more than the form. Thanks.