Re: Re : Re plant importation
- Subject: Re: Re : Re plant importation
- From: e*
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 00:18:40 -0700
Hi Chantal - I'm not Don, but I do happen to be up at the computer
tonight and I do a lot of business with nurseries who send bare root (or
sometimes mud and root) plants.
I buy quite a bit on EBay and seldom have a problem with the plants
drying out.
Most reputable nurseries ship early in the week and ship priority only.
That can still be 4 days tho. At least the box of plants don't sit over
the weekend at the Post Office or UPS facility.
The plants are plastic bagged, usually tied at the roots, with damp
paper or peatmoss or sometimes mud from the field where they were dug
around the roots. They are packed in a sturdy box in more newspaper for padding.
They might look a bit sad when the box is opened but a quick soak in
lukewarm water brings the leaves back.
I have rec'd 'sticks with roots' especially from the less reputable
catalogs. For those, I soak then plant in a gallon pot, set the stick
in a filtered sun area on my deck where I can keep an eye on it.
More often than not, the stick slowly comes to life. And, even the less
reputable catalog houses will refund or replace if one keeps track of
the purchases.
About 6 years ago, hubby bought a Japanese red leaf maple from this
company and it truly was a stick about 5" long with 3-4 roots .
I never thought it would amount to much. We put it in a 5 gal pot and
just last fall planted a lovely 3' tall tree.
It took a long time, but the tree cost us around $5.00 instead of the
$50.oo it would at the size it is now. And I was able to trim and coax
as it grew so I had a pleasing shape.
Elle in Oregon
GUIRAUD Chantal wrote:
> Hi Don,
> I'm just wondering how the bare-rooted plants can survive during
> transportation.
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