Re: How to ship plant bare root??
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] How to ship plant bare root??
- From: G* O*
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 07:50:36 -0400
Diane,
Did you have any problems with customs coming back (assuming Canada is as
strict as the U.S. about bringing in live plants)? Were you required just
to present for inspection or did you have to obtain some kind of
certification as a collector bwefore you went?
On our last two trips to Hawai'i I brought back several native impatiens
cuttings with the blessing of the USDA. Have just assumed bringing things
from Europe would be more difficult, bare-root or not, because of their
current sensitivity to invasive species.
Gerry
At 02:54 PM 9/30/00 -0700, you wrote:
>I got this idea from someone in an aroid group who does a lot of
>shipping. He uses what he called polyester fleece (if I remember
>correctly). I wrote to him asking if what he meant was quilt
>batting, and he agreed. So I took quilt batting and various sizes of
>ziplock bags when I went to Europe, because I planned to buy lots of
>plants. After I soaked the dirt off, and swished them in several
>changes of water, I wrapped the roots in a piece of batting and put
>the plant in a plastic bag just large enough for the roots, with the
>leaves uncovered. It worked really well - the roots neither dried
>out nor rotted, and the leaves didn't rot either.
>
>Diane Whitehead Victoria B.C. Canada
>
