@Lan no I haven’t, I was just thinking about this. If I’m able to do it if I have the proper documents. I’m thinking you could as long as you have the paper work and the plants meet the entry requirements and soil free 🤔
I've been getting to know someone who I have made more than a few plant purchases on fb plant purges and not once have a not been really happy w those purchases. Blah blah we discussed import purchases after I found out she is a not to large grower of so many different types of plants. Which is a good thing. I'm going to send her this video and hopefully her and I can decide if we want to seriously look into import purchases. . . I bet she will struggle w paying attention to what you are saying. For the same reason I did. All those different Scindapsus wishlist plants. THAT SILVER CLOUD!! 😆THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE GREAT INFORMATION.
TYVM... I've been really curious about importing...and definitely re-acclimation video would be great 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I hope you are having a great day 🤗🤗🤗 everyone also ;)
I was curious about importing plants 🌱 but after watching this video I think I will just leave that to the pros (plus I love going into plant stores can’t wait to come see your new store) but an acclamation video would be amazing 🤩
Haha, yeah it definitely requires a bit of thick skin to import and a lot of patience, I too also love the experience of looking at plants in person. 😁
Good to know! Last week I purchased a Hoya Sunrise on Etsy being Imported from Taiwan (my first time) it said something about that Phytosanitary Certificate which I did not know what it was for but I REALLY like the Hoya Sunrise so I just paid AND NOW I’M WAITING AND PRAYING FOR THE BEST. Bottom line THANKS FOR CLEARING THAT UP. 💚I luv Crazy Plant Guy💚
I just imported a bunch of Hoyas for the first time. They all travelled well….except for one which didn’t make it. This video was very informative! The plant I bought from you is doing great! Lots of new leaves! I can’t wait to come and visit your new store!
I do find Hoyas are resilient and can tolerate travel abs being understated or dry. They’re also very easy to root again. Glad to hear the plant is doing well 😁
Where was this video like a week ago! Seriously! I had to Google and ask friends because I bought through import and had to figure all these things out on my own! (No clue as to why I didn’t just CZcams it. Lol) Regardless, I love the content. Yes please to the acclimation video, what to do after the unboxing isn’t a very common video. It’s like yay watch me unbox imports, yay look at the finished product! 😂
Very informative video! I am coming to Toronto the end of Aug. How can I purchase plants from you at your store...or is it an online store? Thanks and have a great day!
Hey Christian! What a coincidence! I also got my Scindapsus Pictus Silver Lady few days back, and now waiting to see how long it takes to acclimatize and bring up new leaf... This makes a total of three Scindapsus in my little collection of plants... Love these, so beautiful! Looking for Aygyreus next... Any particular care tips for Scindapsus?
@@keithpugh7538 this is actually the first and only time Ive done that actually! Only because I've never been the first 😂 but no I don't really care about being first for vids! I agree with you Kevin!
@@keithpugh7538 Funny that a grown adult cares enough to try to rip someone up haha. Who cares if someone wrote "first" on a CZcams video... Oh wait, apparently you do 🤔👍
Keith Pugh hard to believe an adult would feel the need to comment a useless opinion instead of just scrolling by. No one needs your negativity. Do you feel accomplished now?.... 🤦♀️
Does anyone know if you are required to have the green and yellow labels on the outside of the box for export. I have just read this recently, that it is suppose to get shipped to an inspection center and those must be on the box? Can anyone provide some information on that, please. Thanks!
There’s definitely a lot of work in important and not desirable to many. I wish it would be easier and plants were perfect so I can enjoy the plants right away 😅
Thank you for sharing this import info. I think a more in-depth acclimation video would be great. If you felt comfortable sharing names of vendors you’ve had good luck with also, it would be greatly appreciated 😊
Thanks, unfortunately the vendors I’ve worked with so far are hits and miss, sometimes they’ll be good while other times it will be a bad shipment. I wouldn’t feel comfortable if someone got plants from them and it ended in a bad experience. 😬
An acclimation video would be great. Even if I'm not importing them from another country, I often do have plants shipped from domestic sources, oftentimes a greenhouse with much different conditions than I have in my house.
So I have a plant I cant find a seller for but I have found someone who is just a random guy who would be willing to send me some of these plants from India. How should I go about it? Should I have him send it to some kind of exporter who is capable of shipping them? Or is there a way he can send it directly to me? It has to be easy on his part so no paperwork/permits/weird stuff for him. Just simply putting it in a box and sending it. All the cost/paperwork has to be only on my end.
Hey! I've noticed that there are so many purges going on in my entire state... It makes me feela bit more confident that the plant will thrive once it's been rehabilitating in someone else's care.
For sure. Definitely a lot easier to get a plant that’s been rehabilitated and acclimated, especially if you want to enjoy the plants beauty right away.
I had a super stressful and expensive import experience earlier this year. I ordered a number of Anthurium which landed in the UK on the night before Good Friday which is a public holiday here and then if 3 days wasn't wasn't bad enough there was the Easter Monday public holiday too! So it got stuck there for 4 days then was held up for further inspection even though it had a phytosanitary. Eventually I had to pay for an additional inspection and register as an official importer that cost me as much as the entire plant order 😭. I later found out from one of our government agencies that these additional fees actually have nothing to do with the type of plants I bought but if they were sent via standard post I only need a phytosanitary but if they were sent via courier then it gets treated as an import even though, they admitted to me, it's not actually stated anywhere on government guidelines and regulations 😡 At least the Anthurium all survived and are thriving 🙄
Yikes, omg, that sounds so stressful. 😬 I’d definitely be frustrated as well if the process and requirements were clear or they made a mistake. Also a good reminded to make sure you time the delivery to not land during the holidays.
Question about the permit - when you indicate the type of plant you are importing I.e. philodendron would they destroy your plants if you also ordered a different type within the same order like syngonium?
Usually when you apply and send a list of plants your importing they’ll add ‘additional plants’ that are approved and found on the list of accepted plants.
I bravely, stupidly, desperately tried to import 6 hoyas from thailand. Via tracking they arrived 4 days later at destination, but... 3 weeks later after having already given up hope I recieved them...by that time I knew elliptica would be D.O.A ( but to order that one was totally me to blame), 4 others to my surprise were still alive, not even dehydrated (!) but lacking color, one was missing... 2 have recoverd so far...(out of 6 I received 4 from my order and one random and payed for the full package))
I had my first and last experience importing hoyas from overseas this past April. (A youtuber had done an unboxing and although she had not recommended the company due to snafus she experienced the first time she ordered from them , it looked like the company did better the second time around. The cuttings also looked pretty good.)Factoring in the time and aggravation navigating UPS, Customs and unhelpful exporter, it was just not worth it. All 4 had root rot and only two could be salavaged. So, I actually paid more for the plants in the end than if I had just purchased them from various online vendors in the U.S. Lesson learned.
Yeah there’s so many factors that can really make importing not worth it, when you think about the time and cost it takes you’re almost always better off buying it locally where they’ve taken the time and risk to get that plant ready for you.
@@CrazyPlantGuy I wish your tutorial would have been available back then! I had checked with the exporter and DMd another CZcamsr who regularly imports plants and had been reassured that as a plant hobbyist I did not need an import license. This was not the case. as UPS Customs Brokerage explained to me while charging me various fees.
I just got an import from Indonesia from a shop called Aroid Market. It was in the mail for 6 days and arrived COMPLETELY DEAD AND FULLY ROTTEN. All mush. These wasn’t even a lot of moisture in the package, none actually. It’s insane how much damage can occur in a handful of days. Something MUST be happening in customs. My guess, most packages get through customs fine but a few unlucky packages get “special treatment.” Something must be done that just annihilates the plant, some kind of heat treatment maybe?
Wow, that’s crazy. I’ve never had that kind of damage for 6 days. Experienced sellers can package plants well that will be good for up to 7 days, so either they didn’t pack it properly or customs got involved for them to be in that condition after al 6 days. 🤔
Blake A. E. ...Aroid Market. I actually found a CZcamsr who did an unboxing from Root Greenhaus and her plants were identical to mine. All rot all mush. I wonder if these websites, Aroid Market, Aroid Asia, Root Greenhaus use the same supplier or are the same company, or a parent company of each other? Their websites, prices, checkout process and the way they package their plants, even the materials used, are so similar. This CZcamsr even says her plants were not in the mail long enough for this rot to happen, same with mine.
Blake A. E. ...Did you have to pay $25 before the package would be delivered? I paid $35 for a photosanitary certificate at checkout, then DHL contacted me hours before delivery wanting $25 for a photosanitary certificate or else the package would be returned. That was annoying. There’s nothing like paying an extra $25, paying for TWO photosanitary certificates for a box of mush.
I started importing within the last year. First one was a Scindapsus silver hero.. it arrived alive, but it was basically a box of cuttings. 🤷🏿♀️ after massive chopping and propping I was able to make a full pot. Now I found a seller that is.amazing, my.plants arrive in perfect shape everytime. Only caveat is that it's a single guy selling plants, so stock is low.
importing plants can be very bad sometimes, there is a risk of propagating illness and parasites but also there is a very big risk of participating in the extinctions of rare plants (from countries where the plants are endemic, Brazil, Philippines, etc ...)
I find the cost of importing plants to be quite costly. Overseas sellers are now charging an arm and a leg for rare plants and shipping cost is also expensive. It just doesn’t seem worth it anymore IMO.
Yeah the price has gone up and the cost of shipping is crazy. I guess you can get a bit of a price break if you order a lot of plants as it makes the shipping worth it. But with everything that can go wrong and the work behind it, definitely not worth it for a lot of people.
I made an order totaling over $250 for like 5 rare, really well priced plants. I paid for a phyto. My plants arrived in California only about 4 days after they shipped from Indonesia. They all arrived with completely rotted foliage. Only half are salvaged as wet sticks or completely beheaded chonk with roots. The others didn't make it! I will never import again
They packed it with polyfill, but the box was too crammed with plants and not sturdy. I believe the leaves just got crushed and bruised so much they rotted 😓
Oh no, that sounds horrible. 4 days isn’t too bad but you’re right how it was packed have portably bruised all the foliage especially if the roots were decent. Ugh, that sucks.
Share your horror stories or great experience if you’ve imported plants before on the comments. Here was one of my first unboxing video of imported plants: czcams.com/video/lmdpCovK7IQ/video.html
I have not tried importing yet and I am not sure if I ever will. Sounds stressful Thinking about it I would try if I am guaranteed great ficuses specimen for the decora ruffled leaves and the shivereana.
Don’t forget to like or leave a comment on this video so I know what kind of content you N’Joy or don’t N’Joy 😅
@Lan no I haven’t, I was just thinking about this. If I’m able to do it if I have the proper documents. I’m thinking you could as long as you have the paper work and the plants meet the entry requirements and soil free 🤔
Always with the dad jokes 😂
HAHAHA great play on words
Haha love the plant pun
@Growing Around hmm I’m not entirely sure on the variety. 😅
Hello Christian, This was a really informative video about the ups & downs of importing. Please do a video about your acclimation process.
So much to learn. Very great information. Best of luck on grand opening.🤗🎉🎉
Thanks for this video! Definitely got me thinking about some stuff for when i start my own shop some day! Love your content! :D
I've been getting to know someone who I have made more than a few plant purchases on fb plant purges and not once have a not been really happy w those purchases. Blah blah we discussed import purchases after I found out she is a not to large grower of so many different types of plants. Which is a good thing. I'm going to send her this video and hopefully her and I can decide if we want to seriously look into import purchases.
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I bet she will struggle w paying attention to what you are saying. For the same reason I did. All those different Scindapsus wishlist plants. THAT SILVER CLOUD!! 😆THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THE GREAT INFORMATION.
Great info! The process is so interesting!
TYVM... I've been really curious about importing...and definitely re-acclimation video would be great 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I hope you are having a great day 🤗🤗🤗 everyone also ;)
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the info on this video. Will definitely do a acclimation video soon.
I was curious about importing plants 🌱 but after watching this video I think I will just leave that to the pros (plus I love going into plant stores can’t wait to come see your new store) but an acclamation video would be amazing 🤩
Haha, yeah it definitely requires a bit of thick skin to import and a lot of patience, I too also love the experience of looking at plants in person. 😁
Good to know! Last week I purchased a Hoya Sunrise on Etsy being Imported from Taiwan (my first time) it said something about that Phytosanitary Certificate which I did not know what it was for but I REALLY like the Hoya Sunrise so I just paid AND NOW I’M WAITING AND PRAYING FOR THE BEST. Bottom line THANKS FOR CLEARING THAT UP. 💚I luv Crazy Plant Guy💚
Oooh good luck. I’m surprised you couldn’t find the Hoya Sunrise in your area? Either way hope it gets to you safe and healthy. 😁
So much helpful information! Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Thank you. I’m glad you found it helpful.
Very helpful information! Thank you!
I just imported a bunch of Hoyas for the first time. They all travelled well….except for one which didn’t make it. This video was very informative! The plant I bought from you is doing great! Lots of new leaves! I can’t wait to come and visit your new store!
I do find Hoyas are resilient and can tolerate travel abs being understated or dry. They’re also very easy to root again. Glad to hear the plant is doing well 😁
Where did you import them from shop?
Great vid!! Yes please do a acclimating vid
Wow this is really informative and helpful!!! All your plants look so healthy and beautiful😍💖
Thank you. Glad you found the video helpful.
Very informative, thank you!
Your videos are really good and so informative! Thank you!! 🌱 🌈🪴✨
Ahhh thank you so much. ☺️ really appreciate the feedback.
Love this video so much. Very educated. Thanks a bunch Christian.
Glad you enjoyed it and found it informative 😁
Great knowledge to know!!!👍
I would love an acclimation video!! 💚🌿
Great informational video! Honest and informative! One does sort of have to have a thick skin and be prepared for any outcome to import .
Thank you. And yeah, agree one needs to have some thick skin to do import plants. 😅
I spent a couple of years importing wild caught saltwater fish and corals from overseas and agents on the west coast...and it will age you quick!!
Very informative and interesting
I would love to watch a acclimation video
I’m a sucker for those silver scindapsus leaves. Speaking of risks and repotting, our new song “I’m Not Afraid” is perfect for repotting plants. 😉💚
Can you pls do a video on prices for imported plants, what’s responsible or not. Thank You I love your posts.
Where was this video like a week ago! Seriously!
I had to Google and ask friends because I bought through import and had to figure all these things out on my own! (No clue as to why I didn’t just CZcams it. Lol)
Regardless, I love the content. Yes please to the acclimation video, what to do after the unboxing isn’t a very common video. It’s like yay watch me unbox imports, yay look at the finished product! 😂
Wow I had no idea you have to have a variety of documents when importing plants 😮. Thank for the very informative video 😄
Yeah there’s a few things involved. Glad you found it helpful.
Great information 💚🙃
Very informative video! I am coming to Toronto the end of Aug. How can I purchase plants from you at your store...or is it an online store?
Thanks and have a great day!
Love❤ this video
Hey Christian! What a coincidence! I also got my Scindapsus Pictus Silver Lady few days back, and now waiting to see how long it takes to acclimatize and bring up new leaf... This makes a total of three Scindapsus in my little collection of plants... Love these, so beautiful! Looking for Aygyreus next... Any particular care tips for Scindapsus?
Yay. Congrats I find Scindapsus really easy to acclimate. Won’t be long before yours are thriving.
Do you do plant cutting giveaways? I am so envious of your plant collection
If I do it’s usually local or Canada wide
First!!!!!! 😁 Wow so much goes into imported plants!
😳 I thought the first comments had stopped. Hard to believe an adult would think they have accomplished something by posting first on a CZcams video 🤦
@@keithpugh7538 this is actually the first and only time Ive done that actually! Only because I've never been the first 😂 but no I don't really care about being first for vids! I agree with you Kevin!
@@keithpugh7538 Funny that a grown adult cares enough to try to rip someone up haha. Who cares if someone wrote "first" on a CZcams video... Oh wait, apparently you do 🤔👍
@@keithpugh7538 you thought WRONG buddy! What a d-bag comment.. lmao.. or were you just upset cause she got the FIRST comment? 🤭
Keith Pugh hard to believe an adult would feel the need to comment a useless opinion instead of just scrolling by. No one needs your negativity. Do you feel accomplished now?.... 🤦♀️
At least you have the option! Here in Australia we can’t import anything!
Can you make a video about pests and how to take care of them please👏
Does anyone know if you are required to have the green and yellow labels on the outside of the box for export. I have just read this recently, that it is suppose to get shipped to an inspection center and those must be on the box? Can anyone provide some information on that, please. Thanks!
Thank you, that was great information, although I have no desire to buy plants from overseas.
There’s definitely a lot of work in important and not desirable to many. I wish it would be easier and plants were perfect so I can enjoy the plants right away 😅
Just imported a syngonium albo that is doing great and a pictum tricolour that will soon just be a stick, acclimation video pls!
What is the name if the plant in the jar that has roots ??? Dark green and silver splotchy?? Thanks!!
Thank you for sharing this import info. I think a more in-depth acclimation video would be great. If you felt comfortable sharing names of vendors you’ve had good luck with also, it would be greatly appreciated 😊
Thanks, unfortunately the vendors I’ve worked with so far are hits and miss, sometimes they’ll be good while other times it will be a bad shipment. I wouldn’t feel comfortable if someone got plants from them and it ended in a bad experience. 😬
An acclimation video would be great. Even if I'm not importing them from another country, I often do have plants shipped from domestic sources, oftentimes a greenhouse with much different conditions than I have in my house.
Oh for sure. Will do. There’s definitely an acclimation process you’ll want to do whenever getting any plants from the mail, even if it’s domestic
Acclamation video would be awesome 👏🏼
You got it. 😃
Yes!
So I have a plant I cant find a seller for but I have found someone who is just a random guy who would be willing to send me some of these plants from India. How should I go about it? Should I have him send it to some kind of exporter who is capable of shipping them? Or is there a way he can send it directly to me? It has to be easy on his part so no paperwork/permits/weird stuff for him. Just simply putting it in a box and sending it. All the cost/paperwork has to be only on my end.
I really want to try an Alocasia, they are cheaper from places that import. I am so terrified of trying to import and having them DOA.
Hey! I've noticed that there are so many purges going on in my entire state... It makes me feela bit more confident that the plant will thrive once it's been rehabilitating in someone else's care.
For sure. Definitely a lot easier to get a plant that’s been rehabilitated and acclimated, especially if you want to enjoy the plants beauty right away.
Will you be exporting plants to NY State from your shop ?
I actually want to to see the acclimation video. Really interested in that
Thanks, I’ll definitely make one soon
I had a super stressful and expensive import experience earlier this year. I ordered a number of Anthurium which landed in the UK on the night before Good Friday which is a public holiday here and then if 3 days wasn't wasn't bad enough there was the Easter Monday public holiday too! So it got stuck there for 4 days then was held up for further inspection even though it had a phytosanitary. Eventually I had to pay for an additional inspection and register as an official importer that cost me as much as the entire plant order 😭.
I later found out from one of our government agencies that these additional fees actually have nothing to do with the type of plants I bought but if they were sent via standard post I only need a phytosanitary but if they were sent via courier then it gets treated as an import even though, they admitted to me, it's not actually stated anywhere on government guidelines and regulations 😡
At least the Anthurium all survived and are thriving 🙄
Yikes, omg, that sounds so stressful. 😬 I’d definitely be frustrated as well if the process and requirements were clear or they made a mistake. Also a good reminded to make sure you time the delivery to not land during the holidays.
Question about the permit - when you indicate the type of plant you are importing I.e. philodendron would they destroy your plants if you also ordered a different type within the same order like syngonium?
Usually when you apply and send a list of plants your importing they’ll add ‘additional plants’ that are approved and found on the list of accepted plants.
@@CrazyPlantGuy thank you !
I bravely, stupidly, desperately tried to import 6 hoyas from thailand. Via tracking they arrived 4 days later at destination, but... 3 weeks later after having already given up hope I recieved them...by that time I knew elliptica would be D.O.A ( but to order that one was totally me to blame), 4 others to my surprise were still alive, not even dehydrated (!) but lacking color, one was missing... 2 have recoverd so far...(out of 6 I received 4 from my order and one random and payed for the full package))
I had my first and last experience importing hoyas from overseas this past April. (A youtuber had done an unboxing and although she had not recommended the company due to snafus she experienced the first time she ordered from them , it looked like the company did better the second time around. The cuttings also looked pretty good.)Factoring in the time and aggravation navigating UPS, Customs and unhelpful exporter, it was just not worth it. All 4 had root rot and only two could be salavaged. So, I actually paid more for the plants in the end than if I had just purchased them from various online vendors in the U.S. Lesson learned.
Yeah there’s so many factors that can really make importing not worth it, when you think about the time and cost it takes you’re almost always better off buying it locally where they’ve taken the time and risk to get that plant ready for you.
@@CrazyPlantGuy I wish your tutorial would have been available back then! I had checked with the exporter and DMd another CZcamsr who regularly imports plants and had been reassured that as a plant hobbyist I did not need an import license. This was not the case. as UPS Customs Brokerage explained to me while charging me various fees.
I haven't imported before so nervous haha
can I just say how jealous I am of your beardddd
Haha. Thanks 🧔🏻♂️
Hi, do i need an import permit when buying plants from the US?
It depends what country you’re at and the requirements are for importing plants. Check your government plant import agency website
I just got an import from Indonesia from a shop called Aroid Market. It was in the mail for 6 days and arrived COMPLETELY DEAD AND FULLY ROTTEN. All mush. These wasn’t even a lot of moisture in the package, none actually. It’s insane how much damage can occur in a handful of days. Something MUST be happening in customs. My guess, most packages get through customs fine but a few unlucky packages get “special treatment.” Something must be done that just annihilates the plant, some kind of heat treatment maybe?
Wow, that’s crazy. I’ve never had that kind of damage for 6 days. Experienced sellers can package plants well that will be good for up to 7 days, so either they didn’t pack it properly or customs got involved for them to be in that condition after al 6 days. 🤔
Aroid market or Aroid Asia? I had the same experience with aroid Asia
Blake A. E. ...Aroid Market. I actually found a CZcamsr who did an unboxing from Root Greenhaus and her plants were identical to mine. All rot all mush. I wonder if these websites, Aroid Market, Aroid Asia, Root Greenhaus use the same supplier or are the same company, or a parent company of each other? Their websites, prices, checkout process and the way they package their plants, even the materials used, are so similar. This CZcamsr even says her plants were not in the mail long enough for this rot to happen, same with mine.
Blake A. E. ...Did you have to pay $25 before the package would be delivered? I paid $35 for a photosanitary certificate at checkout, then DHL contacted me hours before delivery wanting $25 for a photosanitary certificate or else the package would be returned. That was annoying. There’s nothing like paying an extra $25, paying for TWO photosanitary certificates for a box of mush.
Imgormative but if i import it's bulbs mostly from Brecks they have been around forever
I started importing within the last year. First one was a Scindapsus silver hero.. it arrived alive, but it was basically a box of cuttings. 🤷🏿♀️ after massive chopping and propping I was able to make a full pot.
Now I found a seller that is.amazing, my.plants arrive in perfect shape everytime. Only caveat is that it's a single guy selling plants, so stock is low.
I’m waiting for my silver hero any acclimation tips?
Can you recommend any sellers?
Beautiful plants can i buy some
Just go to the Milk store!!!!🥰💓💓
importing plants can be very bad sometimes, there is a risk of propagating illness and parasites but also there is a very big risk of participating in the extinctions of rare plants (from countries where the plants are endemic, Brazil, Philippines, etc ...)
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I find the cost of importing plants to be quite costly. Overseas sellers are now charging an arm and a leg for rare plants and shipping cost is also expensive. It just doesn’t seem worth it anymore IMO.
Yeah the price has gone up and the cost of shipping is crazy. I guess you can get a bit of a price break if you order a lot of plants as it makes the shipping worth it. But with everything that can go wrong and the work behind it, definitely not worth it for a lot of people.
I literally just imported an anthurium Clarinervium and Syngonium Mojito and it definitely was a stressful process!
Yup, 😅 I’ve had mixed results with the Syngoniums, and anthuriums for the most part we’re good. But still stressful 😬
@@CrazyPlantGuy sadly the Syngonium had a decent amount of root rot, but the Clarinervium is doing great thus far ☺️.
Also loving your TikToks! 😉
I just had a poor experience it sounds like I ordered from an exporter because the plant was fvcked.
What was the plant in the thumbnail ?
That’s the Scindapsus Silver Cloud Dark Form
I made an order totaling over $250 for like 5 rare, really well priced plants. I paid for a phyto. My plants arrived in California only about 4 days after they shipped from Indonesia. They all arrived with completely rotted foliage. Only half are salvaged as wet sticks or completely beheaded chonk with roots. The others didn't make it! I will never import again
They packed it with polyfill, but the box was too crammed with plants and not sturdy. I believe the leaves just got crushed and bruised so much they rotted 😓
Oh no, that sounds horrible. 4 days isn’t too bad but you’re right how it was packed have portably bruised all the foliage especially if the roots were decent. Ugh, that sucks.
Chill 🪴💚🌿
Share your horror stories or great experience if you’ve imported plants before on the comments.
Here was one of my first unboxing video of imported plants: czcams.com/video/lmdpCovK7IQ/video.html
I have not tried importing yet and I am not sure if I ever will. Sounds stressful
Thinking about it I would try if I am guaranteed great ficuses specimen for the decora ruffled leaves and the shivereana.