| Its a moot point, I wouldn't send it to CA. Ever since I received a nasty letter from the CA Dept of Agriculture stating that I had violated their Agricultural statutes over a trade plant I sent that they confiscated and quarantined, CA and all the other "picky" states are definitely off my list. It violates their nematode quarantine law, even though its an epiphyte that has been grown the required 18+ inches off the ground, on several points:
It's being grown on a property that has not been inspected, tested and deemed nematode free It's growing in media that wasn't stored according to CA's stringent requirements (IE, the bags were stored on the ground, not OFF the ground) so the media isn;t considered sterile It's growing in an area of mixed use where plants around it are potted in "dirty" soil The convoluted Agricultural regulations of some of the "food producing" states are just too nuch for me to deal with, so CA, HI, TX, LA, AZ and PR are just, well, "out". The ironic thing is, the plant I received the letter over WAS grown under almost ALL of the above conditions. Go figure. |
