Just FYI~
I received information late this evening letting me know a seller on eBay apparently has a nice case of bugs at their place of business & is selling them anyway. Since I don't personally have any experience with the seller I don't want to publicly name them, but if you are bidding on eBay AV's you may want to contact me & I will gladly share the exact email I received. I believe the sender to be a reliable source & a respected AV person .
At any rate just be sure to isolate those new purchases!
Offered with my best intentions!
MsC
Edited to correct spelling
This message was edited Jul 11, 2006 9:09 PM
Ebay Buyers Beware Buggy plants ....
Ok I got that email also ... I did Dmail it to some . If anyone is interested in seeing it please Dmail me.
It is very important to isolate ALL new plants. Plants with bugs look healthy.
Plants can look healthy for a long time months even a year before noticing problems.
Just having new plants in the same room, or if you work on the with the same tools, don't wash hands good, they get under your nails, clothes, jump, fly and their so small you can't see them. Then the eggs and cycle's they go threw.
So please be careful as your buying new plants, even Vendors ask you to please isolate, plants from Nurseries, Wal-Mart, HD, and others have a better chance of having pest then coming from a grower who isolates also.
Also when working out in your yards wash up good and change clothes before working with your indoor plants.
I like to add we alway have bugs around the plants everytime you open a door or walk in from outside if you have plants outside you could be bringing thrip everytime you touch a plant outside. So when we have out break we alway think its new plants in a few cases its the bug that is in our's plants something like heat or weather change its can start the out break. I alway spray twice during the year to help to stop the out break from happening............But I will hear from a few I don't have bugs but like I said its a lie bugs is part of life, we can only controll them and that is about it.
David
Well it's amazing ~ ever feel darned if you do ~ darned if you don't?? :
Thought I'd share this lil email with ya'll as well. This was in my DG mail from violet321~
"Hi
I also have been chatting with Tea about the problem seller. Now, my problem is your posting. Since you didn't name the seller, this kind of puts us all under a cloud so to speak. Many people will read your post and few will bother to ask you for the details and many more may now be afraid to buy from us, the other ebay sellers, who ship good, clean, healthy plants. Why not name the offending party? Why should all of us suffer because of one bad apple? Helen - Violets4you on ebay. I can't post here - not a member - someone wrote me about your posting."
Enough said...
MsC
July, August, and September are the killer months for bugs. Humidity is just right for everything to grow. NOT only plants. David is right. If you have a window open; bugs come in. If you go to the grocery store and buy produce; bugs come in. Working in the garden; bugs come in.
Yah! Allison. WASH YOUR HANDS. Not only for colds and flu but for bugs that get to you house plants as well.
Hope we all survive the summer.
Oh heaven's! Hope the problems not thrip. They're a bugger to get rid of since all stages of the bug are present at almost all times. I ran an automatic sprayer 24/7 in my greenhouse that (pyrethrans,sp?)that sprayed every 60 mins.when I was raising to sell.
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Many people Dmailed me for the email that came to me from Tea's . So I sent them a copy of the email she sent me. Anyone else want a copy of it Dmail me and I will send it to you.
yah, it is about control.... and the more you buy, the more you're likely to bring in bugs. (being in a highrise, I have less of a problem with the windows as the doorway, lol)
Thrips would be annoying... I recently recommend to someone to seal the plants in something (a bag) with a strip of No Pest Strip - apparently it worked on the thrips (but did not get rid of the fungus gnats) . Let's see if this link works: http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=88409&catid=46909
I have to say that so far I have not had thrips, knock on wood- I did have the worst problem w/ fungus gnats. What seemed to work was the Bayer product and then Fertilome's granular systemic product. Also helped to have the mexican pings!
I haven't been buying AVs on eBay, but I'm quite aware that you were posting about just one seller, and I don't consider all the sellers to be under a cloud now. If I found one I wanted to bid on, I would get the name from you just to be safe, but your post is not keeping me away from eBay, LOL.
If I have a bug problem I would like for someone to tell for I can check it out to see if mine end if so you can see the problem with the bugs. BUt thrips is one things they can jump on the plants from your own place when you open the box. But like I tell people alway keep new plants from your plants in time you see if you have a problem with the new plants. (Just thinking) IN the same case what if you put the new plants in your plants and you place have the outbreak you would first think the new plants, so this why its alway best to keep all you seperate until you knew for sure no bugs you can see. But alway think bugs is part of our's life so we need to learn to keep in check that is all we can do.
I have the state inspector here twice a year at the place anyway to look for plants, so I have to keep the plants as bugs free as possible.
You knew we all have Roach in the house if oyu keep your house you really clean don't see them but they are their, would this keep you from buying a house.